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