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Horror
The Damned Thing
By Ambrose Bierce
An inquest into a mysterious death uncovers a terrifying encounter with an invisible creature, explained by the deceased's diary entries on colors beyond human perception.

Horror
The Boarded Window
By Ambrose Bierce
A frontiersman living in isolation makes a horrifying discovery after his wife's apparent death, leading him to board up a window in his cabin forever.

War/Drama
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By Ambrose Bierce
A Southern planter facing execution by hanging from a bridge experiences an elaborate, detailed fantasy of escape in the final moments before his death.

War/Horror
Chickamauga
By Ambrose Bierce
A young child, deaf and mute, wanders from home into a forest and stumbles upon the horrific aftermath of a Civil War battle, perceiving the wounded and dying soldiers as a grotesque parade until he tragically discovers his own home destroyed and his mother killed.