Can Such Things Be
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Bierce, Ambrose
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: night
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subject: domain
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subject: july
subject: proofread
subject: rebecca
subject: crowley
subject: rcrowley
subject: zso
subject: dec
subject: contents
subject: death
subject: halpin
subject: frayser
subject: secret
subject: macarger
subject: gulch
subject: summer
subject: moonlit
subject: road
subject: diagnosis
subject: moxon
subject: master
subject: tough
subject: tussle
subject: twins
subject: haunted
subject: valley
subject: jug
subject: syrup
subject: staley
subject: fleming
subject: hallucinat
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full text: The Internet Wiretap Electronic Edition of CAN SUCH THINGS BE by AMBROSE BIERCE New York Johnathan Cape and Harrison Smith Copyright 1909 by Albert and Charles Boni Inc. This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Released July 1993 Proofread by Rebecca Crowley <rcrowley@zso.dec.com> CONTENTS 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 SYRUP 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 HAITA THE SHEPHERD AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA THE STRANGER THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER 1 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.--HALL. ONE dark night in midsummer a man waking from a dreamless sleep in a forest lifted his head from the earth, and staring a few moments into the black- ness, said: 'Catharine Larue.' He said nothing more; no reason was known to him why he should have said so much. The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead. One who practises sleeping in the woods with nothing under him but the dry leaves and the damp earth, and nothing over him but the branches from which the leaves have fallen and the sky from which the earth has fallen, cannot hope for great longevity, a…