First published in the San Francisco Examiner, Jan 22, 1893.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893 | Can Such Things Be? | Cassell Publishing Company | Collection | ||
| 1903 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 239 | |
| 1910 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 268 | |
| 1918 | Can Such Things Be? | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 268 | |
| 1924 | Can Such Things Be? | Albert & Charles Boni | Collection | 268 | |
| 1925 | Ten Tales | The First Edition Club | Collection | 17 | |
| 1926 |
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Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts | Haldeman-Julius | Collection | |2 |
| 1938 | Strange Stories | Longmans, Green and Co. | Anthology | 132 | |
| 1943 |
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | Heritage Press | Collection | 197 |
| 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 | 85 |
| 1967 |
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The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 77 |
| 1967 |
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Dat vervloekte ding en andere griezelverhalen | Meulenhoff | Collection | 86 |
| 1967 |
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Startling Mystery Stories, Winter 1967/1968 | Health Knowledge, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 71 |
| 1968 |
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The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 77 |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 201 |
| December 1970 |
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The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Anthology | 71 |
| 1971 |
|
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | The Easton Press | Collection | 197 |
| 1974 |
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The House of the Nightmare & Other Eerie Tales | Heinemann Educational Books | Anthology | 80 |
| 1974 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | 134 |
| June 1974 |
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Racconti neri | Garzanti | Collection | 57 |
| 1975 | The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 77 | |
| 1977 |
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Dat vervloekte ding en andere griezelverhalen | Het Spectrum | Collection | 86 |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 201 |
| 1984 |
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Ochii panterei: Proză fantastică americană, Vol. 2 | Editura Minerva | Anthology | 66 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 308 | |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 514 |
| March 1988 |
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I racconti dell'orrore | Fanucci Editore | Collection | 101 |
| April 1990 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | |
| 1994 |
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Campfire Thrillers: The Short and Scary Ones | Globe Pequot Press | Anthology | 59 |
| January 1997 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | |
| August 2003 | Can Such Things Be? | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |20 | |
| 2005 |
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Valea bântuită | Editura Leda | Collection | |
| July 2008 |
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About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy | Coachwhip Publications | Anthology | 180 |
| October 2008 |
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The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | Penguin Books | Collection | 152 |
| August 2011 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Blackstone Audio | Collection | |239 |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | LibriVox | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Collection | |268 | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection | |
| April 2013 |
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 20 | LibriVox | Anthology | |6 |
| August 2017 |
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Supernatural Horror Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | 21 |
| December 2018 |
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Supernatural Horror Short Stories | Flame Tree Publishing | Anthology | |
| April 2023 |
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The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales | British Library Publishing | Collection | 184 |