Washington Irving

A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.

A retelling of the tale in which a man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

The tale of Rip Van Winkle, the lazy husband who slept for twenty years, is rendered into verse.

Connecticut Yankee Ichabod Crane arrives in the rural Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow and assumes his post as the new schoolteacher. Though the outsider is widely regarded with suspicion, the daughter of the area's wealthiest farmer, Katrina Van Tassel, is charmed by his manners and education. Ichabod's attentions to Katrina are not welcomed by blacksmith Brom Bones and when Brom tries to scare Ichabod by posing as the "Headless Horseman" of local...

The legend of the new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, the local bully, Brom Bones, and the ghost, the Headless Horseman.