Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is America's original ghost story, and it remains as haunting and witty as the day Irving wrote it in 1820. Set in a secluded Dutch farming valley on the Hudson River, it follows Ichabod Crane, a lanky Connecticut schoolmaster whose head is filled with ghost stories and a longing for the wealthy Katrina Van Tassel. When a local roughneck named Brom Bones sets out to win Katrina for himself, the stage is set for a Halloween night confrontation that will determine not just who wins the girl, but whether Ichabod believes in ghosts at all. Irving paints the valley of Sleepy Hollow as a place where old Dutch superstitions hang thick in the air, and the colonial frontier feels close and wild. The result is both a deliciously spooky tale and a sharp satire of New England ambition colliding with old-world Dutch complacency...