Washington Irving
Books by Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy HollowThis 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.
Rip Van WinkleThis 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.