When accused of plagiarizing O'Brien, Bierce retorted that O'Brien's monster was "supernatural and impossible", whereas he described "a wild animal that cannot be seen, because, although opaque, like other animals, it is of invisible color".
In his take on the issue of invisibility, Bierce chose to "foreground the limitations of human senses", speculating that in the course of evolution an animal might have arisen whose color is invisible to the human eye. Later examples of invisibility in 19th-century fiction include " The Plattner Story" and The Invisible Man by H. To me it is both, the horror of an invisible creature and that creature being of a color my eyes can not see.įighting invisible monsters is a classic horror trope that may be traced to the invisible supernatural entities in O'Brien's " What Was It?" (1859) and Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla" (1887). Maybe this analysis will explain the reasoning of the science fiction idea over horror. Click to expand.Absolutely, it is a horror thought.
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