Washington Irving

This short story follows schoolteacher Ichabod Crane through a Hudson Valley village filled with ghost stories. His nighttime encounter with the Headless Horseman mixes fear with the village's practical jokes.

52 min reading time

This short story follows a villager who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes twenty years later. He returns to find that the American Revolution has changed his village while he slept.

33 min reading time