A superstitious Yankee schoolmaster courting a Dutch heiress is chased from the valley by a headless horseman.
Books that mention The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid: “Are you familiar with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? You have seen the film, you say? I have not, but I am sure it was faithful; certainly the prose version was a most powerful work.”
So Big by Edna Ferber: “The deserting schoolmaster had been a second Ichabod Crane... a modern Mynheer Van Tassel, pipe, chuckle, and all.”