The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter by Ambrose Bierce

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Ambrose Bierce

80 pages first pub 1892 (editions)

fiction classics horror mystery challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced
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On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman, but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her, and in defiance of th...

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