“Beyond the Wall” is a supernatural short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. It is a horror story that utilizes some tried and true tropes in the horror genre, and comes from Bierce’s collection of ghost stories titled Can Such Things Be? published Jan. 1, 1893. The horror of this story is a slow burn, and explores gothic elements discreetly, such as slowly creeping questions of sanity and failure to understand ones own guilt, sin, and failure to take action.