One work in this collection features a decrepit Sir Walter Scott dictating tales to an imaginary amanuensis and an 87 year old Robert Burns who cannot understand Tam O'Shanter.  
One work in this collection features a decrepit Sir Walter Scott dictating tales to an imaginary amanuensis and an 87 year old Robert Burns who cannot understand Tam O'Shanter.  Another concerns the machinations of the witch Mother Rigby to send her titular pipe-smoking creation to woo Polly Gookin, while, in another part of this collection, George Herkimer visits a man who allegedly has a snake residing in his bosom in a story that was originally meant for a collection called Allegories of the Heart, "Egotism."  Reuben Bourne shoots his son Cyrus on the very spot he left the dying title character of "Roger Malvin's Burial," while characters in this collections other stories include Aminadab, lab assistant to Aylmer, and Giovanni Guasconti, who falls in love with Beatrice Rappacini.  Also Including "Young Goodman Brown," this is, For 10 points, what collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
One work in this collection features a decrepit Sir Walter Scott dictating tales to an imaginary amanuensis and an 87 year old Robert Burns who cannot understand Tam O'Shanter.  
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