Short Story #201: A Lady from Red Horse by Ambrose Bierce
Title: A Lady from Red Horse
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Summary
The story is a series of correspondence from Mary Jane to her friend Irene. She explains that she has found a man that is amazingly beautiful and compelling where she is currently staying and she finds herself almost incapable of pursuing him. Meanwhile, a childhood friend, Raynor, has appeared and is causing trouble. Mary Anne explains that Raynor and she were part of a trio as kids and that the third had died a while aback. Additionally, since she had come into fortune, it was often a strain (but one she tried to overcome) to continue their friendship. As the beautiful stranger continues to court her, she doesn't know what to make of it until finally, the lover reveals that he is the childhood friend and in fact, he had not died but was just wounded.
The story is a series of correspondence from Mary Jane to her friend Irene. She explains that she has found a man that is amazingly beautiful and compelling where she is currently staying and she finds herself almost incapable of pursuing him. Meanwhile, a childhood friend, Raynor, has appeared and is causing trouble. Mary Anne explains that Raynor and she were part of a trio as kids and that the third had died a while aback. Additionally, since she had come into fortune, it was often a strain (but one she tried to overcome) to continue their friendship. As the beautiful stranger continues to court her, she doesn't know what to make of it until finally, the lover reveals that he is the childhood friend and in fact, he had not died but was just wounded. Reflection
It's a bit of stretch to put this into the horror tales as it feels more like a romance than it does horror. It's only the chance that the childhood friend had been reported as dead that adds any supernatural element ot the tale.
Short Story #201 out of 365
Rating: 2 (out of 5 stars)
Date Read: 7/21/2014
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, compiled by Ernest Jerome Hopkins. Bison Books, 1984. The full works of Ambrose Bierce, including this story can be found here on Archive.org.
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For a full listing of all the short stories in this series, check out the category 365 Short Stories a year.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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