Tales of a Traveller

Tales of a Traveller (1824) is a collection of short stories and sketches by Washington Irving, organized into four parts, each with its own frame narrative. The collection ranges from Gothic ghost stories and tales of European adventure to satirical sketches of literary life and legends of buried treasure in old New York.

Part First, "Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman," features some of Irving's finest supernatural tales, including "The Adventure of the German Student" and "The Bold Dragoon." Part Fourth, "The Money Diggers," contains the celebrated "The Devil and Tom Walker", Irving's Faustian tale of greed and the supernatural set in colonial New England.

Published between The Sketch Book and The Alhambra, the collection showcases Irving's range as a storyteller—from the darkly atmospheric to the broadly comic—and his mastery of the frame narrative tradition.