Can Such Things Be‪?‬

Can Such Things Be? is a collection of strange and chilling short stories by Ambrose Bierce, where the unusual slips quietly into the everyday. Ghosts, unexplained events, and eerie coincidences unfold without warning or easy answers. Each story is brief but leaves a lasting impression, as Bierce presents the unsettling possibility that the world might be far less predictable than we like to think.

This collection contains the following stories:
- 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
- A Baby Tramp
- The Night-doings at “Deadman’s”
- 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
- The Damned Thing
- Haita the Shepherd
- An Inhabitant of Carcosa
- The Stranger