a
reference to a murderous
object of horror that appears in a story entitled The
Damned Thing, written by
American author and journalist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914). Detectable by its footprints and the pressed-down grass
left in its passing, the "
Damned Thing" has no
color and is thus not visible to the eye. The story tells of a
man and his encounters with the thing and of his
final destruction at the hands of the invisible creature.