This is a guest post by John Bullard. I apologize for taking so long to get it posted. (Family medical issues required my attention.) Take it away, John.

I didn’t get a chance to post this article up on writer, reporter, and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce’s actual birthdate of June 24^th due to work, but better late than never. I had originally started what has become an unexpected series of only thinking about what appeared to me to be the obvious influence Ambrose Bierce’s writing had on two of Robert E. Howard’s horror stories. I later was struck by how much another Bierce story seems to have influenced another Howard story. As I finally got around to reading another Howard story that I haven’t read before, I immediately saw the influence of Bierce’s writings on it, too. I feel that with these 4 stories, I can show that Ambrose Bierce, being one of Howard’s favorite writers¹, definitely played a role on some of Robert E. Howard’s horror story writing. Continue reading →