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
