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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Have you not looked at the contents or read the sleeve notes yet? |
Yes. Neither really give much away. The sleeve notes focus on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which only actually takes up 25 pages out of 862. The table of contents obviously gives the names of the various tales included and while a few appear to allude to the supernatural or extraordinary, i have no real way of knowing until i read further. There is an introduction that suggests many of the stories are sketches and observations on life in general. But that supernatural horror is a theme to which Irving would return throughout his career. He is likened a few times to James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne.