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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Tor Classics are affordable editions designed to appeal to young readers. Original, dynamic cover art captures the excitement of each story. All editions are complete and unabridged, and include an introduction and afterword.

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 say enchanted. Some speak of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, the eerie midnight screams and howls, but most of all they speak of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrorising hapless travellers.

Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories... Until one night, as he walks home through Wiley's Swamp, he realises that maybe they're not just stories.

What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what is it holding in its hands?

And why has schoolteacher Crane never been seen again in Sleepy Hollow?
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  • еveцитирует2 года назад
    He was a kind and thankful creature, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer, and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink.
  • Ivanцитирует2 года назад
    But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded. The neighborhood is rich in legendary treasures of the kind. Local tales and superstitions thrive best in these sheltered, long-settled retreats; but are trampled under foot by the shifting throng that forms the population of most of our country places. Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon. This is perhaps the reason why we so seldom hear of ghosts except in our long-established Dutch communities.
  • A2337768цитирует5 лет назад
    To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.

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