Beyond the Wall - Ambrose Bierce - Horror
Ratio: 3 / 5
Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English
Cuentos clásicos en inglés de miedo, suspense, halloween
Beyond the Wall - Ambrose Bierce - Horror
Many years ago, on my way from Hong Kong to New York, I passed a week in San Francisco. A long time had gone by since I had been in that city, during which my ventures in the Orient had prospered beyond my hope; I was rich and could afford to revisit my own country to renew my friendship with such of the companions of my youth as still lived and remembered me with the old affection. Chief of these, I hoped, was Mohun Dampier, an old schoolmate with whom I had held a desultory correspondence which had long ceased, as is the way of correspondence between men. You may have observed that the indisposition to write a merely social letter is in the ratio of the square of the distance between you and your correspondent. It is a law.
The Moonlit Road - Ambrose Bierce - Horror
Ratio: 5 / 5
Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Stories in English
Cuentos clásicos en inglés de miedo, suspense, halloween
The Moonlit Road - Ambrose Bierce – Horror
1. Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr.
I am the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health -- with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and coveted by those who have them not -- I sometimes think that I should be less unhappy if they had been denied me, for then the contrast between my outer and my inner life would not be continually demanding a painful attention. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the sombre secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels.