Title -- Contents -- Preface -- THE HUDSON AND ITS HILLS -- Rip Van Winkle -- Catskill Gnomes -- The Catskill Witch -- The Revenge of Shandaken -- Condemned to the Noose -- Big Indian -- The Baker's Dozen -- The Devil's Dance-Chamber -- The Culprit Fay -- Pokepsie -- Dunderberg -- Anthony's Nose -- Moodua Creek -- A Trapper's Ghastly Vengeance -- The Vanderdecken of Tappan Zee -- The Galloping Hessian -- Storm Ship of the Hudson -- Why Spuyten Duyvil is so Named -- The Ramapo Salamander -- Chief Croton -- The Retreat from Mahopac -- Niagara -- The Deformed of Zoar -- Horseheads -- Kayuta and Waneta -- The Drop Star -- The Prophet of Palmyra -- A Villain's Cremation -- The Monster Mosquitoe -- The Green Picture -- The Nuns of Carthage -- The Skull in the Wall -- The Haunted Mill -- Old Indian Face -- The Division of the Saranacs -- An Event in Indian Park -- The Indian Plume -- Birth of the Water-Lily -- Rogers's Slide -- The Falls at Cohoes -- Francis Woolcott's Night-Riders -- Polly's Lover -- Crosby, the Patriot Spy -- The Lost Grave of Paine -- The Rising of Gouverneur Morris -- THE ISLE OF MANHATTOES AND NEARBY -- Dolph Heyliger -- The Knell at the Wedding -- Roistering Dirck Van Dara -- The Party from Gibbet Island -- Miss Britton's Poker -- The Devil's Stepping-Stones -- The Springs of Blood and Water -- The Crumbling Silver -- The Cortelyou Elopement -- Van Wempel's Goose -- The Weary Watcher -- The Rival Fiddlers -- Wyandank -- Mark of the Spirit Hand -- The First Liberal Church -- ON AND NEAR THE DELAWARE -- The Phantom Dragoon -- Delaware Water Gap -- The Phantom Drummer -- The Missing Soldier of Valley Forge -- The Last Shot at Germantown -- A Blow in the Dark -- The Tory's Conversion -- Lord Percy's Dream -- Saved by the Bible -- Parricide of the Wissahickon -- The Blacksmith at Brandywine -- Father and Son -- The Envy of Manitou.

The Last Revel in Printz Hall -- The Two Rings -- Flame Scalps of the Chartiers -- The Consecration of Washington -- TALES OF PURITAN LAND -- Evangaline -- The Snoring of Swunksus -- The Lewiston Hermit -- The Dead Ship of Harpswell -- The Schoolmaster Had Not Reached Orrington -- Jack Welch's Death Light -- The Lady Ursula -- Father Moody's Black Veil -- The Home of Thunder -- The Partridge Witch -- The Marriage of Mount Katahdin -- The Moose of Mount Kineo -- The Owl Tree -- A Chestnut Log -- The Watcher on White Island -- Chocorua -- Passaconaway's Ride to Heaven -- The Ball Game by the Saco -- The White Mountains -- The Vision on Mount Adams -- The Great Carbuncle -- Skinner's Cave -- Yet They Call it Lover's Leap -- Salem and Other Witchcraft -- The Gloucester Leaguers -- Satan and His Burial-Place -- Peter Rugg, the Missing Man -- The Loss of Weetamoo -- The Fatal Forget-Me-Not -- The Old Mill at Somerville -- Edward Randolph's Portrait -- Lady Eleanore's Mantle -- Howe's Masquerade -- Old Esther Dudley -- The Loss of Jacob Hurd -- The Hobomak -- Berkshire Tories -- The Revenge of Josiah Breeze -- The May-Pole of Merrymount -- The Devil and Tom Walker -- The Gray Champion -- The Forest Smithy -- Wahconah Falls -- Knocking at the Tomb -- The White Deer of Onota -- Wizard's Glen -- Balanced Rock -- Shonkeek-Moonkeek -- The Salem Alchemist -- Eliza Wharton -- Sale of the Southwicks -- The Courtship of Myles Standish -- Mother Crewe -- Aunt Rachel's Curse -- Nix's Mate -- The Wild Man of Cape Cod -- Newbury's Old Elm -- Samuel Sewall's Prophecy -- The Shrieking Woman -- Agnes Surriage -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- Heartbreak Hill -- Harry Main: The Treasure and the Cats -- The Wessaguscus Hanging -- The Unknown Champion -- Goody Cole -- General Moulton and the Devil -- The Skeleton in Armor -- Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket -- Love and Treason.

The Headless Skeleton of Swamptown -- The Crow and Cat of Hopkinshill -- The Old Stone Mill -- Origin of a Name -- Micah Rood Apples -- A Dinner and its Consequences -- The New Haven Storm Ship -- The Windam Frogs -- The Lamb of Sacrifice -- Moodus Noises -- Haddam Enchantments -- Block Island and the Palatine -- The Buccaneer -- Robert Lockwood's Fate -- Love and Rum -- LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE SOUTH -- The Swim at Indian Head -- The Moaning Sisters -- A Ride for a Bride -- Spooks of the Hiawassee -- Lake of the Dismal Swamp -- The Barge of Defeat -- Natural Bridge -- The Silence Broken -- Siren of the French Broad -- The Hunter of Calawassee -- Revenge of the Accabee -- Toccoa Falls -- Two Lives for One -- A Ghostly Avenger -- The Wraith Ringer of Atlanta -- The Swallowing Earthquake -- Last Stand of the Biloxi -- The Sacred Fire of Nachez -- Pass Christian -- The Under Land -- THE CENRAL STATES AND THE GREAT LAKES -- An Averted Peril -- The Obstinacy of Saint Clair -- The Hundredth Skull -- The Crime of Black Swamp -- The House Accursed -- Michel de Coucy's Troubles -- Wallen's Ridge -- The Sky Walker of Huron -- The Coffin of Snakes -- Mackinack -- Lake Superior Water Gods -- The Witch of Pictured Rocks -- The Origin of White-Fish -- The Spirit of Cloudy -- The Sun Fire at Sault Sainte Marie -- The Snake God of Belle Isle -- Were-Wolves of Detroit -- The Escape of Francois Navarre -- The Old Lodger -- The Nain Rouge -- Two Revenges -- Hiawatha -- The Indian Messiah -- The Vision of Rescue -- Devil's Lake -- The Keusca Elopement -- Pipestone -- The Virgins' Feast -- Falls of St. Anthony -- Flying Shadow and Track Maker -- Saved by a Lightning-Stroke -- The Killing of Cloudy Sky -- Providence Hole -- The Scare Cure -- Twelfth Night at Cahokia -- The Spell of Creve Ciur Lake -- How the Crime was Revealed -- Banshee of the Bad Lands -- Standing Rock.

The Salt Witch -- ALONG THE ROCKY RANGE -- Over the Divide -- The Phantom Train of Marshall Pass -- The River of Lost Souls -- Riders of the Desert -- The Division of Two Tribes -- Besieged by Starvation -- A Yellowstone Tragedy -- The Broad House -- The Death Waltz -- The Flood at Santa Fe -- Goddess of Salt -- The Coming of the Navajos -- The Ark on Superstition Mountains -- The Pale Faced Lightning -- The Weird Sentinel at Squaw Peak -- Sacrifice of the Toltecs -- Ta-Vwots Conquers the Sun -- The Comanche Rider -- Horned Toad and Giants -- The Spider Tower -- The Lost Trail -- A Battle in the Air -- ON THE PACIFIC COAST -- The Voyager of Whulge -- Tamanous of Tacoma -- The Devil and the Dalles -- Cascades of the Columbia -- The Death of Umatilla -- Hunger Valley -- The Wrath of Manitou -- The Spook of Misery Hill -- The Queen of Death Valley -- Bridal Veil Fall -- The Governor's Right Eye -- The Prisoner in American Shaft -- AS TO BURIED RICHES -- Kidd's Treasure -- Other Buried Wealth -- STORIED WATERS, CLIFFS AND MOUNTAINS -- Monsters and Sea-Serpents -- Stone-Throwing Devils -- Storied Springs -- Lovers' Leaps -- God on the Mountains.