A review by kjcharles
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce is best known for disappearing never to be found, the Devil's Dictionary, and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge iirc, amazing short story about a bloke being hanged. This is a collection of rather macabre short stories in that sort of vein. Redolent of the 19th century West, vivid scars of the Civil War. They're of varying quality, but very similar feel, and I suspect would have a lot more impact read single in a magazine. Lot of mysterious stories that stop abruptly and end with people looking at each other with wild surmise, lot of ghosts all doing roughly the same thing. An interesting period piece but not one I'm likely to return to, though anyone with a love of Americana or western weird might get more from it.