A nervous gentleman and his fellow guests at a hunting dinner trade strange stories, among them The Adventure of the German Student, set in revolutionary Paris. Later parts follow the scapegrace Buckthorne through London’s literary hacks, travellers waylaid by banditti outside Terracina, and New York money-diggers hunting Captain Kidd’s gold.
Irving in his storytelling vein, a forerunner of Poe’s tales and a pleasure for lovers of the uncanny. Download the free EPUB.