First published in the San Francisco Examiner, October 28, 1888.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 121 | |
| 1918 | Can Such Things Be? | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 121 | |
| 1924 | Can Such Things Be? | Albert & Charles Boni | Collection | 121 | |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 126 |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 126 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 239 | |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 445 |
| April 1990 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | |
| January 1997 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | |
| October 2008 |
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The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | Penguin Books | Collection | 34 |
| November 2011 |
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 15 | LibriVox | Anthology | |17 |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | LibriVox | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Collection | |121 | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection |