num_pages: 56
description: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head.
language: English
title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
titlecomplete: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
characters: Baltus Van Tassel, Brom Bones, Ichabod Crane, Katrina Van Tassel
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Gothic, Mystery, Horror, Halloween, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 72596
places: Tarrytown, New York, New York (State), The United States of America, Sleepy Hollow, New York
publisher: Wildside Press