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The boarded window5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() But I am one, as you shall see.,” the music shifts, declining in tone, and slowing – darkening, really. ![]() However, once Bozzone ends the preface, and intones, “I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the secret of that window. Yet, behind it all is a pleasant, circular melody by Bozzone, reflecting the sunny possibilities of a young couple’s new cabin and freshly-cleared plot of land. The tale cannot properly be called a frame tale, given that it never quite returns to the original storyteller, but Bierce’s shifting use of perspective in the story’s opening minutes leaves the listener on the same uneasy footing as the protagonist, Murlock.īy the time we’re listening to the tale proper, the storyteller – voiced with impeccable aplomb by Mann – has told of Murlock’s ultimate fate, the fate of his cabin years later, and how the narrator came to know all that will soon be spoken. Mann and scored by Chris Bozzone on this 7-inch vinyl record. First published in The San Francisco Examiner over a century and a quarter ago, Ambrose Bierce’s short story, “The Boarded Window,” finds new life and new terror when read by Anthony D. ![]()
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