The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a spooky story by Washington Irving. A schoolteacher called Ichabod Crane comes to the quiet valley of Sleepy Hollow, where people love to tell many old stories. The most famous is about the Headless Horseman, a ghost who rides at night looking for his lost head. Ichabod likes to hear all these stories. At first, they were only tales. But one dark night, he discovers that some stories may be more real than they seem…VOCABULARY INCLUDED