Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow includes an Introduction and Afterword by Charles L. Grant.Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place…some … strange little place…some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrifying unlucky travellers.
Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories….Until late one night, walking home through Wiley’s swamp, he finds that maybe they’re not just stories.
What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands?
And why wasn’t schoolteacher Crane ever seen in Sleepy Hollow again?
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Although I’d seen many adaptations of the story on TV and film, the book gave it the perfect amount of origin to drive home a cold shiver, with just a touch of insanity. I endorse its “classic” status, unlike many others.
It’s not the movie or the TV show… and that’s a good thing!
I spent a few weeks every summer in the Catskill Mountains at a resort with my godparents, parents and grandparents. I used to walk around the forest, searching for the headless horsemen. The cottages we always stayed in were either “Rip Van Winkle” or “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Such good memories on the place and this book. Even before the movie, …
Really heavy on descriptions, but still a fun read.
For movie fans who love the famous Headless Horseman, the classic horror story villain we probably all remember fondly from childhood, I recommend the Disney cartoon, an old classic that tons of us saw as children, which is still a perfect choice for kids and, for adults who seriously love a good horror movie and an enjoyable mystery, I also …
2.5 stars
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a horror classic that takes place in 1790 near the Dutch settlement of Tarrytown, New York. This short story tells the tale of the Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane.
To start with, I liked the narrator. Unfortunately, the actual story fell a little short. It was just ok. I was expecting more, …