![]() The mystery is never solved, and the ending of the story is not the ending of the creature (if it is, indeed, a creature at all). Here, we never know just what the invisible thing is. However, Bierce brings a depth to the story that had been lacking before. ![]() Following a documentary approach (like that in Frankenstein and Dracula), Bierce begins his story at the end of the action and works backward, slowly filling in gaps and details as he goes: what starts as a typical mystery slowly reveals itself to be a science-fiction/horror tale.īierce was not the first to incorporate an invisible adversary: Fitz James O’Brien included one in “What Was It?” in 1859. Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) was an American journalist and fiction writer best known for the satirical Devil's Dictionary and the short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Twenty years before he mysteriously disappeared in 1913, he published a science-fiction/horror story that rivals the work of Jules Verne or Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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