Beyond the Wall
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Read “Beyond the Wall” by Ambrose Bierce in English, Russian and German in Bibliott on your phone and tablet.
Languages: English, RU, German
Genre: Fiction, Horror, Literary, Romance
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On a stormy winter night in San Francisco, Mohun Dampier receives an old schoolmate in his tower room, where a gentle tapping comes through a wall with nothing behind it.
Characters
- The narrator — Traveller and old friend: A merchant grown rich in the Orient, stopping in San Francisco to renew the friendships of his youth.
- Mohun Dampier — Reclusive scholar: An aristocrat of old family, drawn to occult studies and living alone in the tower of his house.
- The girl next door — Neighbour across the wall: A young orphan of rare beauty, with great dark eyes, living with her aunt in the lodging-house next door.
- The landlady — Landlady: The talkative woman from whom Dampier rents his rooms on Rincon Hill.