CAN SUCH
THINGS BE?
BY
AMBROSE BIERCE
BONI & LIVERIGHT
NEW YORK 1918
Copyright, 1909, by
The Neale Publishing Company
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Death of Halpin Frayser | [13] |
| The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch | [44] |
| One Summer Night | [58] |
| The Moonlit Road | [62] |
| A Diagnosis of Death | [81] |
| Moxon’s Master | [88] |
| A Tough Tussle | [106] |
| One of Twins | [121] |
| The Haunted Valley | [134] |
| A Jug of Sirup | [155] |
| Staley Fleming’s hallucination | [169] |
| A Resumed Identity | [174] |
| A Baby Tramp | [185] |
| The Night-doings at “Deadman’s” | [194] |
| Beyond the Wall | [210] |
| A Psychological Shipwreck | [227] |
| The Middle Toe of the Right Foot | [235] |
| John Mortonson’s Funeral | [252] |
| The Realm of the Unreal | [255] |
| John Bartine’s Watch | [268] |
| The Damned Thing | [280] |
| Haïta the Shepherd | [297] |
| An Inhabitant of Carcosa | [308] |
| The Stranger | [315] |
THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER
I
For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no natural affection, nor remembrance thereof, but only hate. Also, it is known that some spirits which in life were benign become by death evil altogether.—Hali.