The most popular of Halloween tales for over two centuries, now part of the SWC Horror Bites line of classic frights!
Getting Ahead in This Town Can be Murder…
Sleepy Hollow, New York, appears to be the perfect peaceful location for newly arrived schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, whose nerves always seem a little on edge. The people are nice enough—with the exception of the town bully, Bram Bones—the meals they serve are even better, and most appealing of all is the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, daughter of one of the town’s wealthiest families.
But lurking behind Sleepy Hollow’s peaceful setting is a terrifying secret: a murderer stalks the countryside—specifically, the ghost of a Hessian soldier whose head was blown off by a cannonball during the American Revolution. Ever since his grisly death, the dreaded Headless Horseman has been searching for a replacement…
…and Ichabod Crane’s noggin looks to be just the right size…
“This is one of those stories that’s seeped into our shared consciousness: gangly Ichabod Crane, the spine-chilling headless horseman, a flaming pumpkin. But if you’ve never read the original source material, you are in for a treat.”
—Strong Sense of Place
“Written before Halloween as we know it even existed, the best known of Washington Irving’s stories has become a Halloween classic…perhaps even the Halloween classic.”
—Voyages Extraordinaires
“Washington Irving’s classic fable about a ghostly horseman has long thrilled young readers, particularly in the fall when pumpkins are to be found in pumpkin patches, and the days grow short.”
—Readers’ Favorites
“Irving’s 1820 tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes the real-life village of Sleepy Hollow is considered one of America’s first ghost stories—and one of its scariest.”
—The History Channel
