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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing" is a horror story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce "The Damned Thing" is a horror story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December... Read Full Overview

By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame... Read Full Overview

By the light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame... Read Full Overview

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This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild... Read Full Overview

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842; died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short storywriter, fabulist, and satirist. Today, he is probably best known for his short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical... Read Full Overview

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.The sardonic view of... Read Full Overview

"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893.

In this horror short story by one of the wittiest and most cynical of American writers, a group of people is attacked by a mysterious creature which defies rationality and common sense.

The Damned Thing is a short story by Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (born June 24, 1842, assumed to have died sometime after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story "An Occurrence... Read Full Overview