The Damned Thing

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The Damned Thing

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Roy Macready

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Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and the macabre Can Such Things Be was first published in 1893. One of it's most frightening tales, "The Damned Thing", tells of the horrifying slaughter of a man by a supernatural and invisible "Thing"!

Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready

Ambrose BierceRoy MacreadySpiders' House Audio

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Possibly Bierce's best tale, Innovative and thought provoking. McReady does it justice and gives the listener a sense of time and place.

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