"The Damned Thing" is a horror short story written by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce.
During the last encounter, Morgan fired his gun in fear, then fell to the ground and cried out in mortal agony.
[6] In Lovecraft's story "The Unnamable", Randolph Carter is attacked by "some unseen entity of titanic size but undetermined nature".
[7] In 1975, Yugoslav broadcaster Radio Television Belgrade produced a TV movie entitled Prokletinja (Serbo-Croatian for "The Damned Thing"), based on the story and directed by Branko Pleša.
[8] "The Damned Thing" was very loosely adapted into a 2006 film of the same name as part of the television series Masters of Horror.