Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics

Black Beetles in Amber collects Bierce's finest forays into versification. Some are barbed and venomous, while others are simply entertaining sallies upon Death-poet Pickering sat at his desk, Wrapped in appropriate gloom; His posture was pensive and picturesque, Like a raven charming a tomb. -- "The Obituarian"