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Washington Irving's classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has been making spines tingle since 1820 Irving tapped into a timeless fear: the prospect of a late night journey shrouded in fog turning suddenly fatal. Our imaginations conjure every conceivable danger, but in... Read Full Overview

The quintessential American writer, Washington Irving emerged as the country's first popular author with such beloved nineteenth-century short stories as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." These highly entertaining fiction masterpieces reveal Irving's unique... Read Full Overview

New edition of the American Gothic classic, illustrated with 30 charcoal and ink drawings by acclaimed illustrator Christian Birmingham.

There is magic and mystery surrounding the vale of Sleepy Hollow. It is home to a host of ghostly sounds and goblin spectres,... Read Full Overview

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

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

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" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend... Read Full Overview