The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

First published in 1820, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" remains one of the most well known pieces of early American fiction still read today. Set in a quaint, New York village in the years following the Revolutionary War, Washington Irving's groundbreaking ghost story is at times chilling and delightfully conspiratorial in its dark humor. Ichabod Crane, a preciously fey school master competes with local tough Brom Bones for a wife only to succumb to a headless, supernatural rider ... Or does he? Nothing is at it seems in this classic of American fiction.