The Damned Thing is a short horror story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in 1893 and later collected in In the Midst of Life. At an inquest over a hunter’s mangled corpse, his companion’s diary reveals that the victim was stalked and killed by a creature invisible to the human eye — because some colors lie outside the spectrum our senses can detect.
Bierce’s compressed, sardonic style and his willingness to leave the horror unexplained make this one of the great American weird tales. Download this free public-domain EPUB at Better Gutenberg.