Fiend's Delight-Ambrose Bierce
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Chapter one of the Fiend's Delight
What story begins with the opening of Chapter One?
This is a Libravox recording. All Liebervox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Liebervox dot org Recording by April six zero nine zero, California, United States of America. The Friends Delight by Ambrose Pierce. Chapter one Preface. The atrocities constituting this cold collation of diabolisms are taken mainly from various California journals. They're cast in the American language, and liberally enriched with an intelligibility. If they shall prove incomprehensible on this side of the Atlantic, the reader can pass to the other side at a moderately extortionate charge. In the pursuit of my design, I think I have killed a good many people in one way or another.
But the reader will please to observe that they were not people worth the trouble of leaving alive. Besides, I had the interests of my collaborator to consult. In writing as in compiling, I have been ably assisted by my scholarly friend Mr Satan. And to this worthy gentleman must be attributed most of the views herein set forth. While the plan of the work is partly my own, its spirit is wholly his, and this illustrates the ascendancy of the Of the creative over the merely imitative mind. Polem Ki Muru Ferre, I shall be content with the prophet. God girl. End of chapter one Chapter two of the Fiend's Delight By Ambrose Beerce. This Librevox recording is in the public domain. Some fiction. One more unfortunate
It was midnight, a black wet midnight, in a great city by the sea. The church clocks were booming the hour, in tones half smothered by the marching rain. When an officer of the watch saw a female figure glide past him like a ghost in the gloom. and make directly toward a wharf. The officer felt that some dreadful tragedy was about to be enacted, and started in pursuit. Through the sleeping city sped those two dark figures, like shadows athwart a tomb. Out along the deserted wharf to its farther end fled the mysterious fugitive. The guardian of the night vainly endeavoring to overtake. and calling to her to stay. Soon she stood upon the extreme end of the pier, in the scourging rain, which lashed her fragile figure, and blinded her eyes with other tears than those of grief.
The night wind tossed her trusses wildly in the air, and beneath her bare feet the writhing billows struggled blackly upward for their prey. At this fearful moment the panting officer stumbled and fell. He was badly bruised. He felt angry and misanthropic. Instead of rising to his feet, he sat doggedly up and began chafing his abrated shin. The desperate woman raised her wide arms heavenward for the final plunge. And the voice of the gale seemed like the dread roaring of the waters in her ears, as down, down she went, in imagination, to a black death among the spectral piles. She backed a few paces to secure an impetus. Cast a look upon, the stony officer, with a wild shriek, sprang to the awful verge, and came near losing her balance.
Recovering herself with an effort, she turned her face again to the officer, who was clawing about for his missing club. Having secured it, he started to leave. In a cozy vine embowered cottage lives and suffers a blighted female. Nothing being known of her past history. She is treated by her neighbors with marked respect. She never speaks of the past, but it has been remarked that whenever the stalwart form of a certain policeman passes her door, her clean, delicate face assumes an expression which can only be described as frozen profanity. End of chapter two
Chapter three of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce This Liebervax recording is in the public domain.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:32
2
What story begins with the opening of Chapter One?
0:32–10:54
3
How does the narrative shift when Chapter Two starts?
10:54–22:39
4
What new tale is introduced at the start of Chapter Three?
22:39–34:12
5
What is the focus of the material that begins Chapter Four?
34:12–1:11:56
6
What happens at the transition from Chapter 30 to Chapter 31?
1:11:56–1:12:22
7
How does the eerie cemetery encounter with the old gentleman unfold?
1:12:22–1:17:12
8
What is the story of the burning hotel and the mysterious lady Pokeweed?
1:17:12–2:25:57