The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a mystical novella whose heroes encounter characters from the “thin” world of ghosts—witches, sorcerers. In 1799, the New York police officer Ichabod Crane investigates murders in a town called Sleepy Hollow. Frightened residents of the Hollow talk about the Headless Horseman—a vengeful ghost of a British warrior who died in their region. A rationalist, Crane doesn’t believe in the legend, but even his sound logic shatters under a chain of increasingly terrible and mysterious murders; besides, the ghost brings back to his memory the nightmarish events of his childhood...