First published 2021
Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane steps into the sleepy Dutch settlement along the Hudson River with romantic ambitions. He sets his sights on Katrina Van Tassel, whose father's wealth makes her the most eligible woman in town. But Crane's courtship faces obstacles beyond rival suitors. The villagers whisper of a headless specter that gallops through the dark woods each night, a phantom horseman from the Revolutionary War who lost his head to a cannonball. As Crane becomes absorbed in these ghostly tales, his superstitious nature wars with his rational mind. The longer he remains in this place where folklore feels alive, the more he must wrestle with terrors both real and imagined. His fate will depend on whether he can separate truth from legend when darkness falls.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, adventure, ghost-stories, gothic-horror, 19th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, supernatural-elements
Setting: Sleepy Hollow
Period: 19th-Century
53 pages · Paperback · Independently published