The Damned Thing
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The Damned Thing
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Narrated by:
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Mike Vendetti
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By:
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Ambrose Bierce
A dead man lies on a cabin table. A witness has a story so strange he first wrote it up as fiction. And the coroner has a diary he won't let anyone read.
In the California hills, Hugh Morgan has been torn apart in a field of wild oats. His friend William Harker saw it happen, and he swears to the inquest that nothing visible touched him. The local jury would rather blame a mountain lion. But Morgan's diary tells another story: a dog that barks at empty air, stars that vanish along a ridge at night, fresh footprints by morning, and a hunter who would not be driven from his land.
First published in 1893, Ambrose Bierce's "The Damned Thing" is one of the founding stories of American horror. It's a tale of the thing that hunts us when our own senses can't detect it, and a direct ancestor of the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft. Bierce tells it through sworn testimony, a verdict and a dead man's diary, with dry humor right up to one of the most chilling last lines in American fiction.
This edition is complete and lightly modernized for today's listeners. Every scene and every word of Bierce's ending is kept.
Narrated by Mike Vendetti
Public Domain (P)2026 Mike Vendetti