The Boarded Window

The second of the three tales is “ The Boarded Window”, by Ambros Bierce. This is the first time I have ever read anything by Ambros. I must say that I was surprised that this was a good tale. It was much more of a horror tale then the first one was. This story had much more of a spooky, scary feeling to it throughout the tale. Ambros really gets his audience to picture where and what is going on. He displays lots of imagery in this tale making you feel and understand what is going on. This tale has a lot of imagery about dark and horrifying things. This tale tends to be darker and show more tone to a horror tale then the first one did. He gives his readers a sense of dreary sadness like something bad is going to happen on the very first page. This tale is sad and upsetting but at the same time it is horrifying. This tale is broken down into a man telling a story about an older gentleman in his fifties who ends up passing away. His name was Murlock. Murlock seemed like you typical old person who just is living life. Ambros starts the novel by introducing this man and then jumps right into his death. This was the only true part of the story and then the rest is made up. This story goes back in time to an earlier chapter of Murlock’s life. The narrator’s grandfather tells this part of his life. Right before he tells the past life of Murlock he tells us that there was a ghost in the house that he died in to make it scarier. But there is not to much detail on that. This new chapter as the tale says begins by talking about how he was married. Nobody knew what this woman name was. One day Murlock returned home and found his wife sick. She ended up dying sand murlock was not as upset as he should have been seeing how his wife just died. He prepared her for burial as he was supposed to do. Then after he wakes up there is darkness around the body and in the house. The man gets his shotgun and fires it after being frightened by noises. The flash was so bright that he saw that it was a panther carrying his wife out the winder. But the flash scared the panther and the wife was lying by the window. This tale was scarier than the other one because it was a more frightening case. I thought that this book was very good and I would definitely read this tale again.