First published as "The Diagnosis of Death" in the New York Journal, December 8, 1901.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Can Such Things Be? | The Neale Publishing Company | Collection | 81 | |
| 1918 | Can Such Things Be? | Boni & Liveright | Collection | 81 | |
| 1924 | Can Such Things Be? | Albert & Charles Boni | Collection | 81 | |
| 1926 |
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Tales of Ghouls and Ghosts | Haldeman-Julius | Collection | |4 |
| 1965 |
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Monster Festival | Vanguard Press | Anthology | 235 |
| 1967 |
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The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | The Bodley Head | Anthology | 123 |
| 1968 |
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The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 123 |
| November 1968 |
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Magazine of Horror, November 1968 | Health Knowledge, Inc. | MAGAZINE | 49 |
| 1970 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | Doubleday | Collection | 255 |
| December 1970 |
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The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Puffin / Penguin Books (UK) | Anthology | 106 |
| 1974 |
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The House of the Nightmare & Other Eerie Tales | Heinemann Educational Books | Anthology | 121 |
| 1974 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | 46 |
| 1975 | The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Anthology | 123 | |
| 1984 |
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The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce | University of Nebraska Press | Collection | 255 |
| 1984 | The Best of Ambrose Bierce | Castle / Book Sales | Omnibus | 220 | |
| 1988 |
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The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce | Picador / Pan Books | Omnibus | 426 |
| April 1990 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Citadel Press | Collection | |
| August 1993 |
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown | GuildAmerica Books / SFBC | Anthology | 351 |
| June 1994 |
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Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown | St. Martin's Press | Anthology | 351 |
| January 1997 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | |
| August 2003 | Can Such Things Be? | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |5 | |
| October 2008 |
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The Spook House: Terrifying Tales of the Macabre | Penguin Books | Collection | 231 |
| 2009 |
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Bierce After Dark: 30 Strange Tales by Ambrose Bierce | Coachwhip Publications | Collection | 125 |
| 2009 |
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The Book of Ghosts | HarperCollins | Anthology | 115 |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | LibriVox | Collection | |
| May 2012 |
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Can Such Things Be? | Collection | |81 | |
| July 2012 |
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Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale | Centipede Press | Collection |