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Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

BOOK TYPE
Short fiction
READING TIME
About 6.8 hours
WORDS
81,017
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About this book

A collection of Ambrose Bierce’s short supernatural horror stories.

Short fiction

Inside the book

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  1. Titlepage
  2. Imprint
  3. The Death of Halpin Frayser
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
  4. The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch
  5. One Summer Night
  6. The Moonlit Road
    1. I: Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr.
    2. II: Statement of Caspar Grattan
    3. III: Statement of the Late Julia Hetman, Through the Medium Bayrolles
  7. A Diagnosis of Death
  8. Moxon’s Master
  9. A Tough Tussle
  10. One of Twins
  11. The Haunted Valley
    1. I: How Trees Are Felled in China
    2. II: Who Drives Sane Oxen Should Himself Be Sane
  12. A Jug of Syrup
  13. Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
  14. A Resumed Identity
    1. I: The Review as a Form of Welcome
    2. II: When You Have Lost Your Life Consult a Physician
    3. III: The Danger of Looking Into a Pool of Water
  15. A Baby Tramp
  16. The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s”
  17. Beyond the Wall
  18. A Psychological Shipwreck
  19. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
  20. John Mortonson’s Funeral
  21. The Realm of the Unreal
    1. I
    2. II
    3. III
    4. IV
    5. V
  22. John Bartine’s Watch
  23. The Damned Thing
    1. I: One Does Not Always Eat What Is on the Table
    2. II: What May Happen in a Field of Wild Oats
    3. III: A Man Though Naked May Be in Rags
    4. IV: An Explanation from the Tomb
  24. Haïta the Shepherd
  25. An Inhabitant of Carcosa
  26. The Stranger
  27. The Ways of Ghosts
    1. Present at a Hanging
    2. A Cold Greeting
    3. A Wireless Message
    4. An Arrest
  28. Soldier-Folk
    1. A Man with Two Lives
    2. Three and One Are One
    3. A Baffled Ambuscade
    4. Two Military Executions
  29. Some Haunted Houses
    1. The Isle of Pines
    2. A Fruitless Assignment
    3. A Vine on a House
    4. At Old Man Eckert’s
    5. The Spook House
    6. The Other Lodgers
    7. The Thing at Nolan
  30. Bodies of the Dead
    1. That of Granny Magone
    2. A Light Sleeper
    3. The Mystery of Charles Farquharson
    4. Dead and “Gone”
    5. A Cold Night
    6. A Creature of Habit
  31. “Mysterious Disappearances”
    1. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
    2. An Unfinished Race
    3. Charles Ashmore’s Trail
    4. Science to the Front
  32. Endnotes
  33. Colophon
  34. Uncopyright

Edition & source

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SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE
2023-02-13
SOURCE EDITION UPDATED
2026-08-15
ADDED TO iREADALL
2026-10-13
Edition contributors
  • The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
  • Ambrose Bierce (ann, aut)
  • Georges Michel (art)
  • David Price (trc)
  • Anonymous (trc)
  • Anonymous (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
  • Weijia Cheng (pfr)
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