The Fiend's Delight, by Ambrose Bierce

TO

THE IMMUTABLE AND INFALLIBLE GODDESS,

GOOD TASTE,

IN GRATITUDE FOR HER CONDEMNATION OF ALL SUPERIOR AUTHORS,

AND IN THE HOPE OF PROPITIATING HER CREATORS AND EXPOUNDERS,

This Volume is reverentially Dedicated

BY HER DEVOUT WORSHIPPER,

THE AUTHOR.