The days are getting shorter, the clocks have been set back, and the weather is (finally) getting colder. Time for (more) horror stories! Also a little bit of literary horror escapism from the current real life political horrors unfolding on the national stage is welcome.
This time on The Black Laser Reads, we’re reading Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 science fiction story which is also sort of a proto-eldritch horror story. It’s good! And there are no problematic elements in it which is a blessing for a story from the nineteenth century. Good work, Ambrose Bierce.
You might recognize the author’s name from your high school American literature class when you read “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge”, another science-fictiony, time-wimey sort of story from the 1890s. What can I say? Dude was ahead of the curve of genre fiction.
Enjoy the story.
The text for this episode came from Standard eBooks. If you are interested in reading “The Damned Thing” which is found in Can Such Things Be? yourself, you can download a public domain e-book here.
Next time on The Black Laser Reads: you’ll know when I do!
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