The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life"

A short horror story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in 1893 as part of the collection "In the Midst of Life." It tells of an inquest into the death of a frontiersman who was attacked, according to a witness's testimony, by an invisible and inexplicable creature.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic›Weird and cosmic horror

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