Can Such Things Be? [24 stories]

Ambrose Bierce First published 1893

About this book

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 Haïta the shepherd -- Inhabitant of Carcosa Stranger.

---------- Contained in: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american short stories
  • coroners
  • criticism and interpretation
  • english short stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, horror
  • fiction, short stories (single author)
  • first-person narrative
  • horror
  • horror tales
  • inquests
  • lynx
  • mountain lions
  • nouvelles américaines
  • owls
  • paranormal fiction
  • récits d'horreur
  • short stories