Can Such Things Be?: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Can Such Things Be?, credited to Ambrose Bierce, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Can Such Things Be?, by Ambrose Bierce. Read by Roger Melin. 24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time. (Summary by Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Can Such Things Be?
• Author credits: Ambrose Bierce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 7:37:24

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• horror-ghost-stories
• mystery
• short-stories

Track guide

1. 01 - The Death of Halpin Frayser — 43:40
2. 02 - The Secret of Macarger's Gulch — 21:09
3. 03 - One Summer Night — 5:04
4. 04 - The Moonlit Road — 28:03
5. 05 - A Diagnosis of Death — 9:46
6. 06 - Moxon's Master — 27:45
7. 07 - A Tough Tussle — 22:47
8. 08 - One of Twins — 18:31
9. 09 - The Haunted Valley — 31:26
10. 10 - A Jug of Sirup — 19:53
11. 11 - Staley Fleming's Hallucination — 6:47
12. 12 - A Resumed Identity — 15:30
13. 13 - A Baby Tramp — 13:41
14. 14 - The Night Doings at — 23:57
15. 15 - Beyond the Wall — 25:23
16. 16 - A Psychological Shipwreck — 12:08
17. 17 - The Middle Toe of the Right Foot — 24:03
18. 18 - John Mortenson's Funeral — 4:22
19. 19 - The Realm of the Unreal — 18:43
20. 20 - John Bartine's Watch — 17:31
21. 21 - The Damned Thing — 25:21
22. 22 - Haita the Shepherd — 15:48
23. 23 - An Inhabitant of Carcosa — 11:11
24. 24 - The Stranger — 15:01

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