First published in the San Francisco Examiner, December 17, 1893.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 155 | |
| 1918 | Can Such Things Be? | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 155 | |
| 1924 | Can Such Things Be? | Albert & Charles Boni | Collection | 155 | |
| 1943 |
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Heritage Press | Collection | 157 |
| 1964 |
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Dover Publications | Collection | |
| September 1965 |
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Der Gnadenstoß: Geschichten des Grauens | Rowohlt | Collection | 66 |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 145 |
| 1971 |
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | The Easton Press | Collection | 157 |
| November 1971 |
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The Sorceress in Stained Glass and Other Ghost Stories | Tom Stacey | Anthology | 131 |
| 1974 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | 81 |
| 1976 |
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Ghosts and Ghastlies | Franklin Watts | Anthology | 95 |
| 1978 |
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Doomed to the Night: An Anthology of Ghost Stories | William Kimber | Anthology | 158 |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 145 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 255 | |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 461 |
| March 1988 |
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I racconti dell'orrore | Fanucci Editore | Collection | 23 |
| April 1990 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | |
| December 1991 |
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Horror Story 10 | Garden Editoriale | Omnibus | 277 |
| January 1997 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | |
| August 2003 | Can Such Things Be? | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |10 | |
| 2005 |
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Valea bântuită | Editura Leda | Collection | |
| October 2008 |
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The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | Penguin Books | Collection | 62 |
| 2009 |
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Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce | Coachwhip Publications | Collection | 104 |
| November 2011 |
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Cuentos inquietantes | Alianza Editorial | Collection | |1 |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | LibriVox | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Collection | |155 | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection | |
| April 2023 |
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The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales | British Library Publishing | Collection | 82 |