The Damned Thing

Weird and Ghostly Tales

Ambrose Bierce

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Pushkin Press
05 September 2023

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Classic horror & ghost stories; Short stories; Short Stories Horror; Ghosts Horror

A murder is relived from three startling perspectives; a hunter is driven out of his mind by an invisible, malevolent entity; a man meets a terrifying end in an abandoned house; a werepanther creeps through a window in the dead of night...

Any lover of the dark and unsettling tale will be enthralled by the stories in this collection, all from the pen of the great Ambrose Bierce. Bierce is often seen as the link between Poe and Lovecraft in the American fantastical tradition, and this collection showcases his mastery of the macabre.

Contains: The Damned Thing; The Moonlit Road; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Death of Halpin Frayser; The Suitable Surroundings; The Middle Toe of the Right Foot; Moxon's Master; An Adventure at Brownville; The Eyes of the Panther; The Spook House; An Inhabitant of Carcosa

By: Ambrose Bierce
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781805331100
ISBN 10: 1805331108
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) was an American writer, poet, journalist and satirist. Born in a log cabin in the Appalachian mountains, Bierce fought on the Union side during the Civil War before settling in San Francisco and beginning to write. In 1913 he travelled to Mexico to observe the Mexican Revolution, where he disappeared, never to be seen again. Today, Bierce is regarded as one of the most influential writers of weird fiction in American literary history, with some of his stories, including 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa', having inspired Robert Chambers and H.P. Lovecraft and sowed the seeds of the Cthulhu Mythos.