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Five wonderful stories by Ambrose Bierce, filled with vivid characters, precise and evocative language, surprises, and suspense. Written greater than a century ago, these stories still capture the imagination with vivid, precise language that bites - and may even draw blood! This Freshwater Seas production presents these five classic stories performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune, with subtle musical underscoring to improve and enrich Bierce's words.Included:"Staley Fleming's Hallucination", in which the ghost of a Newfoundland dog with a white forefoot is hungry for revenge! "The Damned Thing", where we meet a wild, ferocious animal determined to operate a vehicle a guy off his land - or drive him insane, once he realizes the strange truth about the risk he faces. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", in which a life, flashing prior to the eyes, and a miraculous escape from certain death, suddenly becomes something else totally in Bierce's strangest and most famous fantasy. (In 1963, a movie version of this story by Paul De Roubaix and Marcel Ichac won the Academy Award for live action short subject. Plus the Twilight Zone version than it is, of course, justly famous.) "Diagnosis of Death", involves a doctor whose incredibly accurate diagnoses are not by any means conducive to a long and healthy life. Lastly: "The Boarded Window", in which a window is forever boarded up and a love forever gone.
