Note: First published (unsigned) in The American Monthly Magazine, July, 1835, as "A Night Adventure in the Alleghanies." When this story was reprinted in Weird Tales: Irish, some changes were made to give it an Irish setting (mainly changes of names, and not much rewriting the descriptions of the German-populated regions of Pennsylvania; I suspect that a person thoroughly familiar with Ireland would be hard-put to recognize that island when reading this story).

Synopsis: A traveler meets a stranger when they both stop to have their horses shod at the same blacksmith's shop, and then encounters him again that night as a dreadful apparition.