In the first of these two tales set in the Catskill Mountains, a man sleeps for twenty years and wakens to a much-changed world; in the second, a superstitious schoolmaster encounters a headless horseman.

Presents stories that deal with a twenty-year sleep, a ghostly apparition, a goblin, a tragic love affair, and a young storyteller.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.