Irving's most famous story about Ichabod Crane--a timid schoolmaster and superstitious outsider in the the haunted Dutch community of Tarry Town--and his fateful encounter with the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier: the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a New York author considered to be the Father of the American Short Story. "If the tales I have furnished should prove to be bad," he commented on the form, "they will at least be found short." He is best known for the stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
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