"The Realm of the Unreal" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It appeared in The San Francisco Examiner on July 20, 1890 and was reprinted in the 1893 collection Can Such Things Be?The story elaborates the idea of "the realm of the unreal" introduced by Bierce in the 1879 story My Shipwreck. Source: Wikipedia (en)