• Publication: Can Such Things Be?Publication Record # 291483
• Author: Ambrose Bierce
• Date: 1910-00-00
• Publisher: The Neale Publishing Company
• Pub. Series: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
• Pub. Series #: 3
• Pages: 427
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Bleiler's Science-Fiction: The Early Years or The Guide to Supernatural Fiction give the date as 1909, which may refer to the copyright date. The earliest copy in Worldcat is 1910. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.
• External IDs:
  • Bleiler Early Years: 201
  • Bleiler Supernatural: 164
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 11115260

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 13 • The Death of Halpin Frayser • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 44 • The Secret of Macarger's Gulch • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 58 • One Summer Night • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 62 • The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 81 • A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 88 • Moxon's Master • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• 106 • A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 121 • One of Twins • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 134 • The Haunted Valley • (1871) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 155 • A Jug of Sirup • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 169 • Staley Fleming's Hallucination • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 174 • A Resumed Identity • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 185 • A Baby Tramp • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 194 • The Night-Doings at "Deadman's": A Story That Is Untrue • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of The Night-Doings at "Deadman's" 1874)
• 210 • Beyond the Wall • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 227 • A Psychological Shipwreck • (1879) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 235 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 252 • John Mortonson's Funeral • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 255 • The Realm of the Unreal • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 268 • John Bartine's Watch: A Story by a Physician • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of John Bartine's Watch 1893)
• 280 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 297 • Haïta the Shepherd • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 308 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 315 • The Stranger • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 327 • Present at a Hanging • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 331 • A Cold Greeting • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 335 • A Wireless Message • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 340 • An Arrest • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 345 • A Man with Two Lives • [Soldier-Folk] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 350 • Three and One Are One • [Soldier-Folk] • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 356 • A Baffled Ambuscade • [Soldier-Folk] • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 361 • Two Military Executions • [Soldier-Folk] • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 369 • The Isle of Pines • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 377 • A Fruitless Assignment • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 383 • A Vine on a House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1905) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 389 • At Old Man Eckert's • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 393 • The Spook House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 400 • The Other Lodgers • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 405 • The Thing at Nolan • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 415 • The Difficulty of Crossing a Field • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 419 • An Unfinished Race • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 421 • Charles Ashmore's Trail • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 424 • Science to the Front • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce