Christina Henry

In this atmospheric, terrifying novel that draws strongly from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the author of Alice and The Girl in Red works her trademark magic, spinning an engaging and frightening new story from a classic tale. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking. Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play "Sleepy Hollow boys," reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in Sleepy Hollow have ever said. Could the Horseman be real after all? Or does something even more sinister stalk the woods?

A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

Horseman

Taryn

Children always hear and see more than adults think they do.  

Adults had an annoying tendency to tell children to stay out of their business. 

She only wanted me to fit into her idea of the world. 

It’s not a pleasant sensation, to feel that you are hunted. People are accustomed to being hunters, to feel they have control over the beasts of the wild, that there is nothing superior to a human. 

Remember you need to remember him there’s something important to remember.

“You can’t teach your children if you have nothing valuable to teach” ~ Katerina

“Don’t tell me you believe that rot. Monsters in the woods, fairies in the garden, spirits at the door. I thought I raised you better than that. We’re not small-minded fools.” ~ Brom

It was a foolish thing, a childish thing, to think that monsters only showed their teeth at night. 

“The world doesn’t always have reasons. Sometimes terrible things happen without justification, or simply because someone wants them to happen.”~ Schuler

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