Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce's *Can Such Things Be?* plunges into the murky depths of the paranormal, gathering nearly all of his supernatural horror stories into one chilling collection. Despite Bierce's own skeptical worldview—he once satirically demanded ghosts appear nude to prove their authenticity—his mastery of the genre is undeniable. From the multi-perspectival terror of "The Moonlit Road" to the pioneering psychological horror of "The Death of Halpin Frayser" and "The Damned Thing," Bierce crafts tales that transcend simple ghost stories. Readers will encounter one of literature's earliest robotic thinking machines in "Moxon's Master," explore existential dread in "Haïta the Shepherd," and confront unsettling ruptures in reality through tales of mysterious disappearances, portals to horrifying dimensions, and altered states of perception.