Tag: Ambrose Bierce

  • The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce Analysis

    The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce Analysis

    Hard to remember now, but ‘damned’ used to be a full on swear word. A teacher at high school once pounced on me for using it (though by the 1990s I think she was being ridiculous). ‘Damned’ was certainly shocking 100 years earlier than that, in 1893, when Ambrose Bierce published his horror short story and called it “The Damned…

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