one summer night by ambrose bierce
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Meanwhile, above ground, a storm approaches as three men dig up the grave of Henry Armstrong. Two of the men are medical students and one of them is a cemetery employee named Jess. The narrator suggests that Jess has done this kind of thing before, and a horse and wagon waits outside the cemetery fence, presumably for the body of Armstrong.
The grave has only recently been filled in, so the men finish the job easily. When Jess unscrews the cover of the casket, Henry Armstrong sits up, and the two medical students run away terrified. Jess stays.
The students meet the next morning at the medical college and express their apprehension about what they saw. They find a familiar horse and wagon hitched behind the building near the dissecting room. When they enter the room, they find Jess, who demands to be paid. On a table lies the body of Henry Armstrong with a fresh head wound.
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The story opens in a casket underground, where a man named Henry Armstrong has been buried alive. He is in 'strict confinement,' 'black darkness,' and 'profound silence.' Bierce describes Armstrong's indifference to his circumstances and his sense of peace before shifting the scene.
The second setting is directly overhead, above ground, where the scene, in conspicuous contrast to the confinement of the casket, is expansive. Bierce describes the sky and the approach of a storm before turning to the ground below where the lightning flickers on the headstones of a cemetery. Here we find three men digging into the grave of Henry Armstrong.
The third and final setting of 'One Summer Night' is a 'medical college,' where two of the gravediggers, medical students, have convened after fleeing the cemetery. They enter the 'dissecting room' in the back to find the third gravedigger, Jess, and the now-dead body of Henry Armstrong, whom Jess has killed with a shovel.