"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by Ambrose Bierce. It first appeared in Tales from New York Town Topics on December 7, 1893. 

The story begins in Hugh Morgan's cabin, where local men have gathered around the battered corpse of Hugh Morgan to hold an inquest concerning his death.

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The Damned Thing - A Horror Short Story

A l'aube d'une journée d'été, en l'an de grâce 1872, j'assassinai mon père, acte qui, à cette époque, produisit sur moi une profonde impression. Les dix-sept récits de ce recueil appartiennent au fantastique, au surnaturel: maisons hantées, forêts maléfiques, fantômes... Une écriture glacée, un humour noir proche des surréalistes.

Histoires impossibles

Parmi les nouvelles incluses dans ce livre, Un incident au pont d’Owl-Creek est sans doute celle qui a reçu les plus grands éloges de la part de la critique et d’autres écrivains. Elle suit le parcours d’un homme sur le point d’être exécuté par pendaison, en pleine guerre de Sécession, et qui déclenche en lui-même un mécanisme de défense psychologique abolissant les lois temporelles. Gommant la frontière entre la vie intérieure du sujet et le monde extérieur, le récit parvient à confondre l’esprit du lecteur par un habile jeu de miroirs. Avec cette nouvelle, Bierce signe une composition moderne, à portée philosophique, sur la porosité entre réalité et fiction.

An Occurrence at  Owl Creek Bridge and Other Short Stories / Un incident au pont d'Owl-Creek et autres nouvelles

Amerikan edebiyatının en alışılmadık, en dikkat çekici yazarlarından biri Ambrose Bierce. İğneleyici nüktedanlığı ve zehir gibi hicviyle şeytana bile pabucunu ters giydiren bir adam.Bierce'ın her durumu tersinden okuduğu, Francisco Goya'nın gravürlerinin eşlik ettiği Epigramlar ve Şeytan'ın Sözlüğü'nden yapılan bu seçki ise karamsarlığı değil keskin bir zekanın ve yüksek bir mizahın peşi sıra sürüklediği özgürlüğü aşılıyor okura.

Epigrammes

Peyton Farquhar, a confederate sympathizer, stands to be hanged for his role in a plot to demolish Owl Creek Bridge. As he awaits death, Farquhar considers the possibility of escape-the chances of slipping his bonds, swimming to safety, and returning to his family. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" recounts the final moments before Farquhar is hanged, exploring the feelings of a man facing his death, and the close relationship between life and death. Known for both its irregular time sequence and its surprising ending, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the most anthologized of Ambrose Bierce's stories. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge - Short Story

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)"   is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
This ebook is a collection of  rather   morbid and grotesques tales by Ambrose Bierce.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American satirist, critic,   poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories   often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and   vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter   Bierce".
Book content:
A Bottomless Grave
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
The Widower Turmore
The city of the Gone Away
The Major sTale
Curried Cow
A Revolt of the Gods
The Baptism of Dobsho
The Race at Left Bower
The Failure of Hope  Wandel
Perry Chumly s Eclipse
A Providential Intimation
Mr. Swiddler s Flip-Flap
The Little Story

Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)

Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world.

In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of "horror", "fantasy", and elements important to other genres. The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story.

Contents:

E. F. Benson

CATERPILLARS

THE SANCTUARY

THE THING IN THE HALL

THE TERROR BY NIGHT

Ambrose Bierce

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT

Algernon Blackwood

THE WILLOWS

Ulric Daubeny

THE SUMACH

Charles Dickens

THE SIGNAL-MAN

Arthur Conan Doyle

THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX

Lord Dunsany

DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER

William Fryer Harvey

ACROSS THE MOORS

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE AMBITIOUS GUEST

W. W. Jacobs

THE MONKEY'S PAW

Henry James

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Franz Kafka

IN THE PENAL COLONY

David H. Keller

THE THING IN THE CELLAR

Henry Kuttner

THE GRAVEYARD RATS

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

CARMILLA

H. P. Lovecraft

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

POLARIS

THE QUEST OF IRANON

THE RATS IN THE WALLS

A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON

THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE SHUNNED HOUSE

THE SILVER KEY

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE STREET

THE TEMPLE

THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN

THE TOMB

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO

THE TREE

UNDER THE PYRAMIDS

THE VERY OLD FOLK

WHAT THE MOON BRINGS

Arthur Machen

THE GREAT GOD PAN

M. R. James

THE MEZZOTINT

THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL

THE ASH-TREE

NUMBER 13

COUNT MAGNUS

A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS

Vincent O'Sullivan

WHEN I WAS DEAD

Edgar Allan Poe

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

THE TELL-TALE HEART

Margaret Ronan

FINGER! FINGER!

Saki

GABRIEL-ERNEST

THE OPEN WINDOW

50+ Masterpieces of Occult & Supernatural Fiction - At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Willows, The Monkey’s Paw, The Turn of the Screw and others

400 citations de philosophes méconnus

En quelques lignes comme en sang, Bierce nous conte la folie de la guerre de Secession, la folie des hommes et leur solitude dans la tourmente. Une bonne lecture aujourd'hui avant d'aller affronter les chimères postulats d'invraissemblables combats moyen-âgeux.

The Damned Thing - A Horror Short Story

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