Contains:

In the Midst of Life (Tale of Soldiers and Civilians)

Soldiers A Horseman in the Sky An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Chickamauga A Son of the Gods One of the Missing Killed at Resaca The Affair at Coulter’s Notch The Coup de Grâce Parker Adderson, Philosopher An Affair of Outposts The Story of a Conscience One Kind of Officer One Officer, One Man George Thurston The Mocking-Bird

Civilians The Man Out of the Nose An Adventure at Brownville The Famous Gilson Bequest The Applicant Watcher by the Dead The Man and the Snake A Holy Terror The Suitable Surroundings The Boarded Window A Lady from Red Horse The Eyes of the Panther

Can Such Things Be?

Can Such Things Be? The Death of Halpin Frayser The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch One Summer Night The Moonlit Road A Diagnosis of Death Moxon’s Master A Tough Tussle One of Twins The Haunted Valley A Jug of Sirup Staley Fleming’s Hallucination A Resumed Identity A Baby Tramp The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” Beyond the Wall A Psychological Shipwreck The Middle Toe of the Right Foot John Mortonson’s Funeral The Realm of the Unreal John Bartine’s Watc Damned Thing Haýýti the Shepherd Inhabitant of Carcosa The Stranger

The Ways of Ghosts Present at a Hanging A Cold Greeting A Wireless Message An Arrest

Soldier-Folk A Man with Two Lives Three and One Are One A Baffled Ambuscade Two Military Executions

Some Haunted Houses The Isle of Pines A Fruitless Assignment A Vine on a House At Old Man Eckert’s The Spook House The Other Lodgers The Thing at Nolan

“Mysterious Disappearances” The Difficulty of Crossing a Field An Unfinished Race Charles Ashmore’s Trail

The Devil’s Dictionary

Bits of Autobiography On a Mountain What I Saw of Shiloh A Little of Chickamauga The Crime at Pickett’s Mill Four Days in Dixie What Occurred at Franklin ’Way Down in Alabam’ Working for an Empress Across the Plains The Mirage A Sole Survivor

Selected Stories Mrs. Dennison’s Head The Man Overboard Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General A Bottomless Grave For the Ahkoond My Favorite Murder Oil of Dog Ashes of the Beacon