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Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

First published 1910
Publisher The Neale Publishing Company
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 427

Differs significantly from the 1893 collection of the same name and should not be merged with that title. This collection drops 19 stories from the earlier collection and adds 28.
Reginald1, Clute/Grant and the 3rd (web) edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction refer to this as an expanded edition. Only the last has the correct date of the original publication as part of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
First published with 42 stories. Some later editions cut the last 18 of these stories.

Bleiler's Science-Fiction: The Early Years or The Guide to Supernatural Fiction give the date as 1909, which may refer to the copyright date. The earliest copy in Worldcat is 1910. The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
13 The Death of Halpin Frayser Ambrose Bierce Short Story
44 The Secret of Macarger's Gulch Ambrose Bierce Short Story
58 One Summer Night Ambrose Bierce Short Story
62 The Moonlit Road Ambrose Bierce Short Story
81 A Diagnosis of Death Ambrose Bierce Short Story
88 Moxon's Master Ambrose Bierce Short Story
106 A Tough Tussle Ambrose Bierce Short Story
121 One of Twins Ambrose Bierce Short Story
134 The Haunted Valley Ambrose Bierce Short Story
155 A Jug of Sirup Ambrose Bierce Short Story
169 Staley Fleming's Hallucination Ambrose Bierce Short Story
174 A Resumed Identity Ambrose Bierce Short Story
185 A Baby Tramp Ambrose Bierce Short Story
194 The Night-Doings at "Deadman's": A Story That Is Untrue Ambrose Bierce Short Story
210 Beyond the Wall Ambrose Bierce Short Story
227 A Psychological Shipwreck Ambrose Bierce Short Story
235 The Middle Toe of the Right Foot Ambrose Bierce Short Story
252 John Mortonson's Funeral Ambrose Bierce Short Story
255 The Realm of the Unreal Ambrose Bierce Short Story
268 John Bartine's Watch: A Story by a Physician Ambrose Bierce Short Story
280 The Damned Thing Ambrose Bierce Short Story
297 Haïta the Shepherd Ambrose Bierce Short Story
308 An Inhabitant of Carcosa Ambrose Bierce Short Story
315 The Stranger Ambrose Bierce Short Story
327 Present at a Hanging Ambrose Bierce Short Story
331 A Cold Greeting Ambrose Bierce Short Story
335 A Wireless Message Ambrose Bierce Short Story
340 An Arrest Ambrose Bierce Short Story
345 A Man with Two Lives Ambrose Bierce Short Story
350 Three and One Are One Ambrose Bierce Short Story
356 A Baffled Ambuscade Ambrose Bierce Short Story
361 Two Military Executions Ambrose Bierce Short Story
369 The Isle of Pines Ambrose Bierce Short Story
377 A Fruitless Assignment Ambrose Bierce Short Story
383 A Vine on a House Ambrose Bierce Short Story
389 At Old Man Eckert's Ambrose Bierce Short Story
393 The Spook House Ambrose Bierce Short Story
400 The Other Lodgers Ambrose Bierce Short Story
405 The Thing at Nolan Ambrose Bierce Short Story
415 The Difficulty of Crossing a Field Ambrose Bierce Short Story
419 An Unfinished Race Ambrose Bierce Short Story
421 Charles Ashmore's Trail Ambrose Bierce Short Story
424 Science to the Front Ambrose Bierce Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Can Such Things Be? 1918 Boni & Liveright Hardcover Collection 427
Can Such Things Be? 1924 Albert & Charles Boni Hardcover Collection 427
Can Such Things Be? Cover 1926 Jonathan Cape Hardcover Collection 254
Can Such Things Be? Cover 1997 Wordsworth Editions Trade Paperback Collection vii+161
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2005 Dodo Press Trade Paperback Collection 172
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2008 Wildside Press Trade Paperback Collection 422
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2010 Book Jungle Trade Paperback Collection 174
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2012 LibriVox digital audio download Collection
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2012 eBook Collection
Can Such Things Be? Cover 2013 CreateSpace Trade Paperback Collection 238
Can Such Things Be?: Tales of the Supernatural Cover 2013 Clockwork Content Trade Paperback Collection 228