Sleepy Hollow Ghost Story: Stories For Halloween Night:

This book is a short story of speculative fiction. This book was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", this story is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during the Halloween season. "He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with...