An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

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Discover the second title in Lasting Echoes, a letterpress series celebrating short stories that endure.

Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a cornerstone of the Lasting Echoes collection for its astonishing ability to compress time, terror, and revelation into a single, unforgettable narrative. With ruthless precision, Bierce explores the fragile boundary between reality and imagination, revealing how the mind seeks meaning even in its final moments. The story’s structure and psychological insight feel strikingly modern, a quality that led Kurt Vonnegut to famously call it “the best short story ever written by an American.” Brief yet devastating, Owl Creek Bridgedemonstrates how a short story can rival the power of a great novel—its final echo lingering long after the page is turned.

• Printed on an Original Heidelberg Windmill Press on Cotton Lettra paper
• Limited to 100 unnumbered copies
• Measures 8.5" × 5.5"
• Wrapped in extra-thick German-made Gmund paper
• Sewn by hand 
• 26 pages
• Featuring three original charcoal illustrations by Colin Estrada, who brings the story’s tension and atmosphere to life through expressive charcoal sketches.

The illustrations in our first three chapbooks of the collection were commissioned from talented recent graduates of Southern Utah University’s BFA program — a collaboration that brings fresh artistic voices into dialogue with these timeless stories. We hope through this series to introduce new artists to the fine press world, giving them an early platform to showcase their work. Each artist will receive a generous percentage of sales, ensuring their creative contributions are meaningfully supported.

An optional slipcase is available with the set, specially designed to house any three chapbooks from the Lasting Echoes collection. It will also be offered separately in the future for readers who wish to build or expand their set over time. Slipcases will be made to order.

Upcoming Lasting Echoes titles will feature short works by Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, Stephen Crane, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and more. Multiple titles are already in development to be released in 2026.