Talk:The Damned Thing (short story)

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Complete Re-write Required

This sounds very much like it was lifted from a Middle school book report. It'd be nice if someone with more maturity and authoritative knowledge would re-do this page.

--164.156.231.55 (talk) 17:05, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, it is shockingly bad. Completely inadequate to do proper justice to Bierce's seminal piece of fiction. Needs a complete re-write from somebody please. Note: I have deleted the entire 'Analysis' section as it was purely Original Research and did not belong in the article (it already had an Original Research flag against it). I have kept the 'La Horla' section that was in the deleted 'Analysis' section - others may wish to fortify or delete this.

114.198.121.48 (talk) 14:56, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article should also be moved to The Damned Thing, and the article currently at that location be moved to another title. It just doesn't do for an adaptation of a literary source to have claim to the title when the literary source does not. The short story is much better known than an episode of a defunct pay-cable television series. Utterly ridiculous. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 01:40, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]