Yellow Fever had broken out in the teenage Irving’s native ... The inspirations behind the Headless Horseman are less clear-cut. Of course, it’s not as if Irving invented the concept of ...

Washington Irving's short stories " Rip Van Winkle " and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " were both published and enormously successful by 1820. Part of Irving's spooky genius was locating the scary ...

This is the thrust (pun intended) of my argument, but please, hear me out. In Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman is controlled by a living person. The person who exhumes his skull ...

What started out as a Halloween gag with her son Luke, has turned into a special seasonal side hustle for Dillon and other riders. You can spot the Headless Horseman at the annual Halloween parade ...

During October, she has dressed as the Headless Horseman, galloping her gory way ... "In fact, since I do social media, I actually reached out to her and offered to help her build a social media ...

Today we’ll meet a man who will saddle up to play the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow this weekend in the very place where the famous short story was set. We’ll also find out why violence ...