'Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!' ―Ambrose Bierce, Can Such Things Be?Can Such Things Be? (1893) by Ambrose Bierce provides readers of the supernatural with 24 tales of mysterious happenings-ghosts seeking revenge, lovers lost in the shadowlands, and many more strange events drawn from the highly creative mind of a master storyteller.