<p>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:<br><br>- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<br>- Rip Van Winkle<br>- The Devil and Tom Walker<br>- Christmas<br>- Guest from Gibbet Island<br>...