The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre by Ambrose Bierce

Author:Ambrose Bierce
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Classics, Short Stories, Adult
ISBN: 9780141038810
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1889-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

The reading was interrupted by a shaking of the house, as by the fall of a heavy object. The reader flung down the book, rushed from the room and mounted the stairs to Fleming’s bedchamber. He tried the door, but contrary to his instructions it was locked. He set his shoulder against it with such force that it gave way. On the floor near the disordered bed, in his nightclothes, lay Fleming gasping away his life.

The physician raised the dying man’s head from the floor and observed a wound in the throat. ‘I should have thought of this,’ he said, believing it suicide.

When the man was dead an examination disclosed the unmistakable marks of an animal’s fangs deeply sunken into the jugular vein.

But there was no animal.

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