The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

A short story by Washington Irving, published in 1820, set in the haunted Dutch valley of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where local legend tells of a headless Hessian trooper who rides at night, and where the lanky schoolmaster Ichabod Crane comes to live and teach.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic›Folk horror and supernatural legends

Reader

Young readers›Ghost and spooky stories