This author wrote a short story set in a cabin owned by a solitary man whose dead wife manages to take a bite out of the giant panther that attacks her body. This man created Murlock in "The Boarded Window" and wrote a story in which a group of soldiers play with a deaf and mute boy who returns home to discover that those soldiers have burned his home and parents. This author of (*) "Chickamauga" also wrote a work that calls love "a temporary insanity cured by marriage" and penned a story in which a Southern planter is tricked into attempting t
This author wrote a short story set in a cabin owned by a solitary man whose dead wife manages to take a bite out of the giant panther that attacks her body. This man created Murlock in "The Boarded Window" and wrote a story in which a group of soldiers play with a deaf and mute boy who returns home to discover that those soldiers have burned his home and parents. This author of (*) "Chickamauga" also wrote a work that calls love "a temporary insanity cured by marriage" and penned a story in which a Southern planter is tricked into attempting to sabotage a Union stockade but ends up swinging from the titular structure. For 10 points, name this author who described Peyton Farquhar's death in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and wrote The Devil's Dictionary.
This author wrote a short story set in a cabin owned by a solitary man whose dead wife manages to take a bite out of the giant panther that attacks her body.
Ambrose Gwinnett {Bierce}