Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]

By Ambrose Bierce

Subjects: short stories, Récits d'horreur, horror, Nouvelles américaines, Criticism and interpretation, owls, lynx, American Short stories, first-person narrative, Paranormal fiction, coroners, horror tales, American fiction (fictional works by one author), inquests, Fiction, short stories (single author), mountain lions, Fiction, horror

Description: Contains: Death of Halpin Frayser -- Secret of Macarger's Gulch -- One summer night -- Moonlit road -- Diagnosis of death -- Moxon's master -- Tough tussle -- One of twins -- Haunted valley -- Jug of syrup -- Staley Fleming's hallucination -- Resumed identity -- Baby tramp -- Night-doings at "Deadman's" -- Beyond the wall -- Psychological shipwreck -- Middle toe of the right foot -- John Mortonson's funeral -- Realm of the unreal -- John Bartine's watch -- [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) Haïta the shepherd -- [Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W) Stranger. ---------- Contained in: [The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17454237W)