Title: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume III. Can such things be? [42 stories]
Description: 42 Stories:

[**Can Such Things Be?**](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8962061W/Can_Such_Things_Be)
The death of Halpin Frayser
The secret of Macarger’s Gulch
One summer night
The moonlit road
A diagnosis of death
Moxon’s master
A tough tussle
One of twins
The haunted valley
A jug of sirup
Staley Fleming’s hallucination
A resumed identity
A baby tramp
The night-doings at “Deadman’s”
Beyond the wall
A psychological shipwreck
The middle toe of the right foot
John Mortonson’s funeral
The realm of the unreal
John Bartine’s watch
[The Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing)
Haïta the shepherd
[An Inhabitant of Carcosa](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7973249W/An_Inhabitant_of_Carcosa)
The Stranger

**The Ways of Ghosts**
Present at a Hanging
A Cold Greeting
A Wireless Message
An Arrest

**Soldier-Folk**
A Man with Two Lives
Three and One Are One
A Baffled Ambuscade
Two Military Executions

**Some Haunted Houses**
The Isle of Pines
A Fruitless Assignment
A Vine on a House
At Old Man Eckert's 
The Spook House
The Other Lodgers
The Thing at Nolan
The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
An Unfinished Race
Charles Ashmore's Trail
Subjects: Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Short Stories, American Short stories, horror tales, horror, inquests, coroners, mountain lions, first-person narrative, lynx, owls
Places: Macarger’s Gulch, Carcosa
People: Halpin Frayser, Staley Fleming, John Mortonson, John Bartine, Hugh Morgan, William Harker