The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce: Volume III

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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

People: Halpin Frayser,  Staley Fleming,  John Mortonson,  John Bartine,  Hugh Morgan,  William Harker

Places: Macarger’s Gulch,  Carcosa