Cover of Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce

Can Such Things Be?

by Ambrose Bierce

326 pages~5 hrs

Step across the threshold where reality ends and the impossible begins.

Step into a world where the laws of nature bend and the shadows of the American past refuse to stay buried. Master of the macabre Ambrose Bierce delivers a bone-chilling collection of supernatural tales that challenge everything you think you know about reality.

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