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- English
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Can Such Things Be?
About this book
Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho Villa -- never to return. Can Such Things Be? Once William Randolph Hearst -- Bierce's employer, who was bragging about his own endless collections of statuary, art, books, tapestries, and, of course real estate like Hearst Castle -- once William Randolph Hearst asked Bierce what he collected. Bierce responded, smugly: "I collect words. And ideas. Like you, I also store them. But in the reservoir of my mind. I can take them out and display them at a moment's notice. Eminently portable, Mr. Hearst. And I don't find it necessary to show them all at the same time." Such things "can" be. Twenty-four tales of the weird by Ambrose Bierce, renowned master of the macabre
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Table of contents
- THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER
- THE SECRET OF MACARGERāS GULCH
- ONE SUMMER NIGHT
- THE MOONLIT ROAD
- A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH
- MOXONāS MASTER
- A TOUGH TUSSLE
- ONE OF TWINS
- THE HAUNTED VALLEY
- A JUG OF SIRUP
- STALEY FLEMINGāS HALLUCINATION
- A RESUMED IDENTITY
- HAZENāS BRIGADE
- A BABY TRAMP
- THE NIGHT-DOINGS AT āDEADMANāSā
- BEYOND THE WALL
- A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK
- THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT
- JOHN MORTONSONāS FUNERAL
- THE REALM OF THE UNREAL
- JOHN BARTINEāS WATCH
- THE DAMNED THING
- HAĆTA THE SHEPHERD
- AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA
- THE STRANGER