Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. This selection contains two of his most famous tales: "The Moonlit Road" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" together with 10 others: "John Mortonson's Funeral," "One Summer Night," "A Baby Tramp," "A Diagnosis of Death,""Staley Fleming's Hallucination," "Moxon's Master," "A Psychological Shipwreck," "John Bartine's Watch," "The Realm of the Unreal" and "The Damned Thing."