Washington Irving's short stories " Rip Van Winkle " and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " were both published and enormously successful by 1820. Part of Irving's spooky genius was locating the scary ...

Likewise is the famously tall and gaunt Ichabod Crane (“one might have mistaken him for … some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”), scared out of his wits in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by the ...

The headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow haunts the American imagination each autumn. New York City native Washington Irving breathed life into the galloping ghost in 1819, when he penned "The ...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a seminal piece of Gothic literature. Washington Irving’s tale of a headless Hessian and his Halloween ride is largely considered to be one of the earliest ...

But out of this double feature, the one I definitely did look forward to, especially around Halloween time, was The Legend of ...

The Headless Horseman of Texas is said to be the ghost of a horse thief named Vidal. He was pursued by Texas Rangers who, in ...

There’s part of the classic American short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, where the iconic headless horseman is supernaturally barred from crossing a wooden bridge spanning a stream as he ...

SKIPPACK — Ghosts, goblins, and goth meet all things quirky in this latest Playcrafters’ production of the classically endearing Washington Irving tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” ...

Photo by Cindy Daigneault This adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow offers a captivating mix of humor and horror, enchanting audiences with its poetic storytelling and vibrant performances.

Chaffey College students will bring the spooky tale of the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane to the stage with their production of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Kathryn Shultz Miller ...

TARRYTOWN, Aug. 12.--When Tarrytown's bells are rung at eventide their sounds steal up through Sleepy Hollow and seem almost to tell again the story of the headless horseman and the wild night ...