Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.

Rough draughts of some of the following tales and essays were actually written during a residence in the Alhambra; others were subsequently added, founded on no

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim

In this book of Irving's choicest stories of the supernatural, there are ghosts in large numbers, as well as goblins, apparitions, spectres, reincarnations, nec

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.