[Alan Gullette]

A fairly comprehensive Bierce site.

[Wikipedia]

All manner of things Bierce: biography, chronology, links, and more. [Don Swaim]

[Peter Landry, Biographies]

[The Authors Calendar]

Use your browser's search function to locate the following supernaturalist tales: "The Death of Halpin Frayser," "An Adventure at Brownville," "The Famous Gilson Bequest," "The Secret of Macarger's Gulch," "A Psychological Shipwreck," "The Night-Doings at 'Deadman's,'" "John Bartine's Watch," "The Realm of the Unreal," "A Baby Tramp," "Some Haunted Houses" (3 tales), "The Bodies of the Dead" (6 tales), "Mysterious Disappearances" (3 tales).  [The BralynE-Text Archives]
- it's possible Bierce takes the title of this collection from Shakespeare's Macbeth, in which Macbeth, having recently murdered Banquo and then seen his ghost, exclaims "Can such things be, / And overcome us like a summer's cloud, / Without our special wonder?" (III.iv.109-111). Just so you know....

This story is available as part of Stories by Modern American Authors, a Project Gutenberg etext (756K). Use your browser's search function to locate it.

Bierce's classic engagement with matters of perspective and gender — a must-read for all fans of the Gothic tradition.