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Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

Short storiesabout 9 hours of listening

A collection of Ambrose Bierce’s short supernatural horror stories.

Contents

  1. Imprint
  2. The Death of Halpin Frayser
  3. I
  4. II
  5. III
  6. IV
  7. The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch
  8. One Summer Night
  9. I: Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr.
  10. II: Statement of Caspar Grattan
  11. III: Statement of the Late Julia Hetman, Through the Medium Bayrolles
  12. A Diagnosis of Death
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  1. Moxon’s Master
  2. A Tough Tussle
  3. One of Twins
  4. I: How Trees Are Felled in China
  5. II: Who Drives Sane Oxen Should Himself Be Sane
  6. A Jug of Syrup
  7. Staley Fleming’s Hallucination
  8. I: The Review as a Form of Welcome
  9. II: When You Have Lost Your Life Consult a Physician
  10. III: The Danger of Looking Into a Pool of Water
  11. A Baby Tramp
  12. The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s”
  13. Beyond the Wall
  14. A Psychological Shipwreck
  15. I
  16. II
  17. III
  18. John Mortonson’s Funeral
  19. I
  20. II
  21. III
  22. IV
  23. V
  24. John Bartine’s Watch
  25. I: One Does Not Always Eat What Is on the Table
  26. II: What May Happen in a Field of Wild Oats
  27. III: A Man Though Naked May Be in Rags
  28. IV: An Explanation from the Tomb
  29. Haïta the Shepherd
  30. An Inhabitant of Carcosa
  31. The Stranger
  32. The Ways of Ghosts
  33. Present at a Hanging
  34. A Cold Greeting
  35. A Wireless Message
  36. An Arrest
  37. A Man with Two Lives
  38. Three and One Are One
  39. A Baffled Ambuscade
  40. Two Military Executions
  41. The Isle of Pines
  42. A Fruitless Assignment
  43. A Vine on a House
  44. At Old Man Eckert’s
  45. The Spook House
  46. The Other Lodgers
  47. The Thing at Nolan
  48. That of Granny Magone
  49. A Light Sleeper
  50. The Mystery of Charles Farquharson
  51. Dead and “Gone”
  52. A Cold Night
  53. A Creature of Habit
  54. The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
  55. An Unfinished Race
  56. Charles Ashmore’s Trail
  57. Science to the Front
  58. Endnotes
  59. Colophon
  60. Uncopyright

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