This author wrote of a murderous chess-playing automaton in one short story, and about Carter Druse, who discovers that an enemy spy he must kill is his father, in another.
This author wrote of a murderous chess-playing automaton in one short story, and about Carter Druse, who discovers that an enemy spy he must kill is his father, in another. In addition to "Moxon's Master" and "A Horseman in the Sky", this author of "The Damned Thing" wrote about a man unharmed by [*] rifle shot, who imagines getting home before Union troops hang him, Peyton Farquhar, and defined a lawyer as "one skilled in the circumvention of the law" in a satirical work originally published as "The Cynic's World Book". For 10 points, name this American author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Devil's Dictionary".
This author wrote of a murderous chess-playing automaton in one short story, and about Carter Druse, who discovers that an enemy spy he must kill is his father, in another.
Ambrose {Bierce}