"The Damned Thing" By Ambrose Bierce (Narrated By Jeffrey LeBlanc)

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Civil War ghosts stalk silently through moonlit forest. A horrific creature attacks a man’s dead wife in the dark. And a soldier literally has his life pass before his eyes as he is hanged. These are just a few of the horrific stories by Ambrose Bierce.

Ambrose Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. He is the author of the comedic “The Devil’s Dictionary” which was named as one of “The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature” by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Bierce’s most horrific and anthologized work, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, has been described as “one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature”.

His best collection by far though is Bierce’s “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians” was cited by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.

Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States. He was a pioneer in realist fiction influencing such authors as Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. And, just as Poe, Ambrose Bierce was considered an influential and feared literary critic

Ambrose Bierce’s greatest story was his own. In December 1913, Bierce traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico, to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with rebel troops he disappeared. He was never seen again.

Tonight we present one of the first science fiction horror stories written by the master of horror, Ambrose Bierce. It's called "The Damned Thing" and it's sure to bring the claws with this one. The selected excerpt from our master of horror says it all:

“As with sounds, so with colours. At each end of the solar spectrum the chemist can detect the presence of what are known as ‘actinic’ rays. They represent colours — integral colours in the composition of light — which we are unable to discern. The human eye is an imperfect instrument; its range is but a few octaves of the real ‘chromatic scale.’ I am not mad; there are colours that we cannot see.”

“The Damned Thing” first appeared in “Tales from New York Town Topics” on December 7, 1893.

The story focuses on Hugh Martin and the strange events surrounding his…murder.

Will anyone see their way to the culprit of Hugh Martin’s inevitable demise? Or will the accursed thing blind side them as well?--JL