Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910.
One of it's most notable inclusions is The Death of Halpin Frayser a gothic tale of the murder of the fated hero by the reanimated corpse of his beloved mother.
Public Domain (P)2016 Spiders' House Audio/Roy Macready