Ambrose Bierce, The Boarded Window 7" Read by Anthony D. P. Mann, score by Chris Bozzone - Red mix

Ambrose Bierce, The Boarded Window 7" Read by Anthony D. P. Mann, score by Chris Bozzone    * Pressed on 150 gram vinyl * New essay by weird fiction scholar S. T. Joshi  * Housed in fold-over sleeve * Newly commissioned art by Jeremy Hush   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. P. Mann and scored by Chris Bozzone on this 7-inch vinyl record. 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. By 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. Yet,