He was the greatest American writer of his time: mentor to Poe, Dickens, and Hawthorne, his country's first professional author, and a writer of uniqely American ghost stories about growth, change, and identity. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:
— The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Rip Van Winkle — The Devil and Tom Walker — Christmas — Guest from Gibbet Island — The Legend of the Engulphed Convent — The Adventure of my Uncle
