First published in Overland Monthly (San Francisco), July 1871.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 134 | |
| 1918 | Can Such Things Be? | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 134 | |
| 1924 | Can Such Things Be? | Albert & Charles Boni | Collection | 134 | |
| 1964 |
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Dover Publications | Collection | |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 117 |
| 1974 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | 71 |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 117 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 245 | |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 451 |
| June 1988 |
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La valle degli spiriti | Fanucci Editore | Collection | 165 |
| 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 | |
| August 2003 | Can Such Things Be? | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |9 | |
| 2005 |
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Valea bântuită | Editura Leda | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | LibriVox | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Collection | |134 | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection | |
| August 2012 |
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 17 | LibriVox | Anthology | |6 |
| November 2012 |
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The Haunted Valley | Baker Press | Chapbook | |
| November 2017 |
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The Classic Horror Collection | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | |24 |
| March 2018 |
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The Classic Horror Collection | Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | |24 |
| May 2018 |
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The Classic Horror Collection | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | |24 |