The Boarded Window By Ambrose Bierce
I have arranged my thoughts into a haiku:
A beautiful show
Of grief in a quiet form,
And also zombies. The Boarded Window Is this tale supposed to be a tie-in to Bierce's other story, 'Eyes of the Panther,' or is it just similar in theme? I'm not sure. I felt that it was a less-successful variation of the story, as there's no explanation or seeming meaning behind why the 'creepy' events occur.
An old hunter-trapper, out on the frontier, has lived alone in his modest cabin for years. His one window has remained boarded shut for as long as anyone can remember. This is the story of why he boarded that window for good. The Boarded Window Actual rating: 2.5 stars
This was a weird one. I couldn't really bring myself to care about the character Murlock or his wife for most of the story. I found the narration a bit confusing as it seemed to switch perspective and I thought the story lacked focus especially for being as short as it was. However, the ending was very action-packed and surreal so I gave it a higher rating since it held my interest at the end and left me wondering what actually happened. The Boarded Window 4/5 estrellas.
Este me encantó, me sorprendió un montón. Después de terminar de leerlo tuve que buscar sí o sí un foto de discusión e interpretación para ese final, perdón 🙈
Pero bueno, otra joya 💖 The Boarded Window So there I was, totally absorbed in the story, saddened by Murlock's grief over his late wife,
When my kitty decided to give me a heart attack by jumping on me at the exact moment that
Murlock heard a long screaming unearthy sound came in through the window!
And -to top it off- the audio version I was listening to had such a creepy sound effect .. Oh the nightmares I'm having tonight! lol The Boarded Window

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A deserted cabin deep in the woods. One door, one window. The window is boarded up. The former resident - a recluse - is deceased. Is there a story here?
Estate liquidators make a living disposing of the personal effects of deceased persons. Typically these are elderly people who may have lived alone, and were considered a bit strange because of their aloofness. But as the liquidator goes through the effects of the deceased, they occasionally find a story. Letters, pictures, and other artifacts prove that this person was once young, vibrant, sexy, full of hopes dreams, and possibilities, intriguing and mysterious.
Here, Ambrose Bierce explores some possibilities of the strange person that lived in the cabin with the boarded up window.
Public Domain (P)2012 Audio Books by Mike Vendetti The Boarded Window
An extremely fascinating and mysterious short story , i loved it !
it's a thought provoking story .
At that moment came in through the open window a long , wailing sound like the cry of a lost child in the far deeps of the darkening wood !
I loved the description , in this quote and generally in the whole story. In that quote ,while I was reading it , i thought maybe his wife gave bearth to a child !
but it turned to be a vicious black panther !
the idea that murlock lived in a house in the forest with no lights in his house made the story even better ! the primitivity of one man's live !
I didn't totally understand the story , I only understood 90% of it , because i thought she was really dead , so in the end I had to find an explication to finding a fragment of the panther's ear in the dead woman's mouth : i came to 2 :
1- she became alive and bit the panther's ear (unlikely to happen)
2-the gunshot hit the panther's ear and a fragment fell in the dead woman's mouth (possible if the mouth is open)
But only today after I searched on google that she wasn't dead and that Murlock mistaked her for being dead !
I also loved the fact that the story ended the way it did , Between the teeth was a fragment of the animal's ear Bam , it stops right there ,with so much to think about, i loved that
overall it was an excellent read ! much fun , much suspence , big adventure , amazing events , if you know any story like this one , this type , these events , please let me know . The Boarded Window I don't think Ambrose Bierce is for me. The story starts off quite promising but fizzles off into a single sentence of chill at the end. The atmosphere-building is good but I like more meat to my horror.
This story is about a man called Murlock who lives in a house with a boarded window. He dies and is buried besides his wife who died many years ago, and therein lies a story. She was ailing and was dying. On the night that she died, something happened. It was not a very thrilling story/ The significance of the boarded window did not make itself felt either. Is the wife still in there? Is she not human? What's the significance here? *shrugs*
One word review: Boring! The Boarded Window […] for what but the magnetism of a blessed memory could have chained that venturesome spirit to a lot like that?
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His heart could not contain it all, nor his imagination rightly conceive it. He did not know he was so hard struck; that knowledge would come later, and never go. Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. Some natures it startles; some it stupefies. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, stinging all the sensibilities to a keener life; to another as the blow of a bludgeon, which in crushing benumbs. The Boarded Window you can never go wrong with Ambrose Bierce. He is one of my absolute favorites. The Boarded Window There is more mystery than horror in this short-story. The plot is engaging and thrilling. It builds and increases suspense, but when it is time to reveal the source of horror, it only yields a riddle and a mystery. Why did Murlock bar the window in his house? What is the significance of the panther's attack? And how did the animal's ear end up torn between the dead woman's teeth? Bierce ends his tale on a note of deep mystery that is even more intriguing with the endless possibilities and conjectures. The Boarded Window