The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Short story by Washington Irving
Ichabod Crane pursued by the Headless Horseman, by F.O.C. Darley, 1849
Text available at Wikisource
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Children's Book Gothic horror
Publication
Published in	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Media type	Hardback, paperback and online
Publication date	1820
Chronology
Series	The Sketch Book
The Angler   L'Envoy

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The short story read by Chip from the LibriVox project.

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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England.

Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.^[1]

It has been adapted for the screen several times, including a 1922 silent film and, in 1949, a Walt Disney animation as one of two segments in the package film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.