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The Damned Thing
„The Damned Thing“ by Ambrose Bierce speaks about a man who died very mysteriously. The book starts with a meeting where nine old men are present , but unfortunately one of them is dead.
A young man named William Harker, who is the witness of the crime , enters the room . Coroner asks him to speaks about what had happened to Hugh Morgan . William starts to tell the jury about what he had seen .
He visited Hugh to shoot and fish . After greeting each other they began to hunt for deers and reached a field of wild oats where they hid behind a rock because Hugh saw something moving in the oats. Suddenly William heard a shot and everything was covered in smoke. Hugh had pulled the trigger , but there was nothing in the field. After that William heard two extremely different voices: a scream like that of a wild animal and Morgan crying out as if in mortal agony. He gazed at Hugh and it seemed like his body was split into pieces. When he approached the body, his companion was dead.
The jury can't believe that an invisible force could do something like that, so one juror asks: „From what asylum did you escape ?“ The witness feels insulted by that comment and starts to leave. Just before going out of the door he sees coroner reading the victim's diary and asks for a permission to reveal Morgan's writings, but the coroner denies his request. At the end of the meeting jury decides that the victim was slaughtered by a mountain lion .
But the diary is still revealed by a third person . Although some pages are torn out, it has certain interesting entries about the Damned Thing that had tried to get Hugh Morgan out of his house. According to the diary that monster can´t be seen through humans ´ eyes .