What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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The Damned Thing
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SOLVED. Ghost story; people killed by an invisible animal on the moors [s]
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Apr 06, 2008 07:25AM
When I was on a caravan holiday once there was a collection of Ghost stories. I would have been 10 or 12 at the time but the stories where adult ones. One particular story stuck in my mind and I haven't been able to track it down since. It was a kind of Hound of the Baskervilles where people were being killed by an animal out on the moors, but his animal turned out to be invisible to humans. The discription went something like as their are sounds that humans can't hear then there are colours that we can't see. I have thouht that it is probably best not to find out what the book is as I would only be disappointed, but I think I would like to take that risk and lay this one to bed. Any help anyone could give would be most welcome.
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That story reminds me of one I read in "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" Which is a children's book but has a story about a creature that sounds like the howling wind and if it gets you, it runs off with your body and makes you run forever. In the morning the only sign that you've been taken are running tracks in the snow. I think the story is called Widjeboo....or something like that...
Thats on the right sort of lines but I don't think it is the right one as Amazon have a date of 1981 as the original release date, whereas I read this story probably 1976-1978 and the book was old and dog eared then. Whilst I was on amazon I noticed a book of ghost stories by Ambrose Bierce which included one called 'The Jaguars eyes' does anyone know anything about that one as it does ring a bell. Thanks for the idea though Brendakins.
I have found it, It is 'The Damned Thing' by Ambrose Bierce. Heres the last bit."As with sounds, so with colours. At each end of the solar spectrum the chemist can detect the presence of what are known as 'actinic' rays. They represent colours — integral colours in the composition of light — which we are unable to discern. The human eye is an imperfect instrument; its range is but a few octaves of the real 'chromatic scale.' I am not mad; there are colours that we cannot see.
"And, God help me! the Damned Thing is of such a colour!"
That scared me when a was a kid!!
You're so very welcome. And thanks to you as well, Andy, for now I have something new to read. That looks very interesting.
If you want to read the whole thing you can find it at: http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdon...Hope you enjoy it, but I think it was reading it at a young age in a caravan on a stormy night in Scotland that made an impression on me.
