NPR's Scott Simon talks to historian Elizabeth Bradley about the 200th anniversary of the publication of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Two hundred years ago, Washington Irving created a character who's ...

I’m a gothic guy at heart, even if I don’t express it. My maximalist, MOMA tendencies clash with my inner Scottish moor sensibilities. In middle school, for instance, I had a deep hyperfixation with ...

AND LORE. I MEAN, A HEADLESS HORSEMAN. HALLOWEEN IS PRETTY EPIC IN SLEEPY HOLLOW, BUT IT’S ALSO A PLACE BORDERED BY WATER WITH A LEGENDARY RIVER OF ITS OWN. TOTALLY DEFINES THE IDENTITY OF THE RIVER ...

The Village of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County is the setting for author Washington Irving’s famously spooky Headless Horseman legend. It's here where residents and visitors are no stranger to the ...

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Two hundred years ago, Washington Irving created a character who's haunted generations ever since, the Headless Horseman. We meet him in "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" when a gangly schoolteacher named ...