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"The Man and the Snake" is a short horror story with a twist ending by the American author Ambrose Bierce. It was first published in the newspaper The San Francisco Examiner on June 29, 1890. The story's protagonist is a man named Harker Brayton. He is staying at the home of a friend of his, a scientist named Dr. Druring who keeps several snakes in another wing of his house. Brayton sees a snake under his bed. He finds that the serpent's eyes have a hypnotic effect on him. An abridged version of "The Man and the Snake" is read by Christopher Lee in the fourth episode of the five-part British radio horror anthology series Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales. The episode first aired on BBC Radio 2 on December 29, 2004.