Note: First published in the July 1835 edition of The American Monthly Magazine (Vol.V-No.IV). It is actually by Charles Fenno Hoffman who reprinted it in his book Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie (1838) under the title 'The Inn at Wolfswald'. Also published under Hoffman's name (as 'The Haunted Inn') in the 1837 British anthology Flowers of Fiction.

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.