Cinerati on Bierce's "The Damned Thing"

Cinerati's Christian Lindke has posted an insightful piece analyzing Ambrose Bierce's classic weird tale, "The Damned Thing," and its potential influence on Lovecraft. Lindke's article breaks down the surface content and deeper themes of Bierce's story to a level rarely seen outside outside formal (and scant) journals of weird fiction. Later, Lindke looks at how "The Damned Thing" may have influenced H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space," a noteworthy connection when considering how both writers' chief monstrosities in these tales are malevolent beings barely detectable to human senses.

This post is well worth a read for churning questions on two weird writers who are often not placed under the lens simultaneously.

-Grim Blogger