Can Such Things Be?

A collection of ghost stories, most of them 5 to 10 pages, all of them good. Bierce wrote at the turn of the 20th century and his prose is sometimes very ornate, sometimes done in dialect. The stories are interesting in that you often have no idea where the plot is going until the end.

Contents

The death of Halpin Frayser
The secret of Macarger's Gulch
One summer night
The moonlit road
A diagnosis of death
Moxon's master
A tough tussle
One of twins
The haunted valley
A jug of sirup
Staley Fleming's hallucination
A resumed identity
Hazen's brigade
A baby tramp
The night-doings at "Deadman's"
A story that is untrue
Beyond the wall
A psychological shipwreck
The middle toe of the right foot
John Mortonson's funeral
The realm of the unreal
John Bartine's watch
A story by a physician
The damned thing
Haita the shepherd
An inhabitant of Carcosa
The Stranger