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A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle, with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced... Read Full Overview

Of the spirits that haunt the Tarry Town (New York) countryside, beware most of all, the Headless Horseman. Join Ichabod Crane as he seeks to make a home for himself in the small port town. The bumbling schoolmaster chases love, and receives an experience like no other on a fateful... Read Full Overview

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving is an eerie tale set deep in the forest. This is a classic story and one which has inspired a recent motion picture and also one which has been enthralling people for generations.

The Headless Horseman faces off with Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a ghost story of enduring popularity that takes place at the time of the American Revolution. Rip Van Winkle, another traditional favorite from the same historic period, tells the tale of man who... Read Full Overview

One of the most popular pieces of American fiction is Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally published in 1820 in Irving's short story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Set in New York's Hudson River valley after the American Revolution,... Read Full Overview

Headless horsemen were staples of Northern European storytelling, featuring in German, Irish (e.g. Dullahan), Scandinavian (e.g. the Wild Hunt) and English legends and were included in Robert Burns's "Tam o' Shanter" (1790), and B rger's Der wilde J ger, translated... Read Full Overview

Washington Irvings haunting, macabre stories will give wide-eyed young readers delightful chills. This spooky anthology of timeless tales includes "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the eerie "Rip Van Winkle," the funny "The Specter Bridegroom," and "The Devil and Tom Walker." Its... Read Full Overview

One of America's greatest gothic tales, this Halloween classic takes place in a small New York town on the edge of the forest where whispers of a horrifying ghost are slipping from one person to the next.

Schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, is new to the small town... Read Full Overview

The Headless HorsemanA Gothic story set in the countryside of Tarry Town whose secluded glen is known for it's ghosts and haunting atmosphere. Ichabod Crane, the superstitious schoolmaster, encounters Sleepy Hallow's most infamous specter - The Headless Horseman.First published... Read Full Overview