The Damned Thing (1893) | Ambrose Bierce | Classic Horror Reading | Macabre Miscellanea

A man is torn apart in an open field with no witnesses and no weapon, and

the jury calls it a mountain lion. In Ambrose Bierce's 1893 story, a

nervous newspaperman testifies to something that sounds impossible, a

coroner quietly withholds a dead man's diary from evidence, and the

official verdict grows harder to believe with every line of testimony —

until the diary's own final entry offers a simpler, worse explanation than

anyone at the inquest was willing to say out loud.

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