One of the Top 40 ghost stories for the first half of the nineteenth century is Horace Smith's Sir Guy Eveling's Dream . This eerie tale first appeared in The New Monthly Magazine of 1823. It was later included in Smith's compilation of short stories and essays titled Gaieties and Gravities in 1826. Nine years later, Washington Irving would release his well-known story, Adventure of the German Student , which shares a similar structure with Sir Guy Eveling's Dream . Without