Whose stories include 'The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow'?
"is loosely based on Washington Irving's short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"". As the story begins, Clumsy, Hefty, and Panicky are out in the forest at night with a cart full of smurfberries that has a broken wheel. Unable to fix the wheel, the three of them sit together around a campfire roasting smurfberries when Clumsy has the idea of telling a ghost story to pass the time. Narrator then joins the three Smurfs to tell his own kind of ghost story. In Narrator's story, the Smurfs gather around for Papa Smurf to announce the Smurfberry Harvest contest in"
"of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820), based on an earlier German folktale, features a Headless Horseman. It has been adapted for film and television many times, such as ""Sleepy Hollow"", a successful 1999 feature film. Irving also wrote ""The Adventure of the German Student"" and Edgar Allan Poe wrote some stories which contain ghosts, such as ""The Masque of the Red Death"" and ""Morella"". In the later 19th century, mainstream American writers such as Edith Wharton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and F. Marion Crawford all wrote ghost fiction. Henry James also wrote ghost stories, including the famous ""The Turn of the Screw""."
"with his 1764 novel ""The Castle of Otranto"" is one of the first writers who explored this genre. The American Revolutionary War-era ""American Gothic"" story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (published in 1820) by Washington Irving, marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic storytelling. The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley, New York. The story would be adapted to film in 1922, in 1949 as the animated ""The Adventures of Ichabod"
"James McIntyre were both born in 1827. In 1830 was the birth of Emily Dickinson and, just over a third of the way through the century, in 1835 Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) arrived in this world. Before all of them was Washington Irving, said to be the first American ""Literary Lion"" and mentor to several other American writers. Washington Irving wrote ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (a short story contained in his collection ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."") while he was living in Birmingham, England and it was first published in 1819. In 1807, Charles and Mary Lamb"
"reply ""Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"", has become a part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada. The Headless Horseman is a fictional character from the short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" by American author Washington Irving. The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on"
"short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" with book, music, and lyrics by Brazillia R. Kreep a.k.a. R. O’Donnell. It was presented by the St. John's Conservatory Theatre on October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25, 2016 at the St. John's Parish House in the city of Ogdensburg, NY. Direction was by R. O'Donnell, Musical Direction and Choreography by Angela Conzone Dwyer with Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ryan C. McNally, and Technical Direction and Production coordination by Christopher Dwyer. Original Costumes and Makeup Design were created by Karen Fischbeck Carmany with additional costumes made by Ann Losurdo with Set"
"tales including ""Rip van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). Nathaniel Hawthorne published the first part of his ""Twice-Told Tales"" in 1837. Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery and imagination between 1832 and 1849. Classic stories are ""The Fall of the House of Usher"", ""The Tell-Tale Heart"", ""The Cask of Amontillado"", ""The Pit and the Pendulum"", and the first detective story, ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"". In ""The Philosophy of Composition"" (1846) Poe argued that a literary work should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. In Germany, the first"
"distinctive characteristic Irving gives Ichabod is that of a psalm singer,"" and that Ichabod Crane is the ""most celebrated Covenanter in all of the literature."" Ichabod Crane Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", first published in 1820. In popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as ""The Headless Horseman."" Crane is invariably portrayed, in the original work and in most adaptations as a tall, lanky individual with a scarecrow affect. Ichabod -- meaning ""without glory"" -- comes from the biblical name of the grandson of Eli the"
"Jesse Merwin Jesse Merwin (1785 – 1865), called the 'pattern' or 'original' of Ichabod Crane was a rural Schoolmaster in Upstate New York, and a friend of Martin Van Buren and Washington Irving. He taught school at a single-room schoolhouse in Columbia County, New York. Jesse Merwin, a 19th-century schoolmaster in Kinderhook, New York, was described in a well-known longhand script letter by President Martin Van Buren, as the ""pattern"" for author Washington Irving's character of Ichabod Crane in his story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. According to a notation by Irving and a certification written in long hand by"
"Holmes Story"" (1978), Ellery Queen's ""A Study in Terror"" (1966), John Sladek's ""Black Aura"" (1974), and Barrie Roberts' ""Sherlock Holmes and the Royal Flush"" (1998) amongst others. The first influential short story, ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes, was published in ""McClure's Magazine"" in 1911 and novelised in 1913. It features a London couple, Mr and Mrs Bunting, who suspect that their lodger, Mr Sleuth, is a mysterious killer known as ""The Avenger"", clearly based on the Ripper. Whether Sleuth really is ""The Avenger"" is left open: the focus of the story is on the Buntings' psychological terror, which may"
"in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named ""Ichabod Crane"". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character"
"among others. The last of the """"Legenden vom Rübezahl"""" (""Legends of Rübezahl"") in the ""Volksmärchen"" was said by Henry A. Pochmann and others to have inspired the Headless Horseman of Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). Another of the ""Volksmärchen"", ""Der geraubte Schleier"" (""The Stolen Veil""), was used by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to provide the plot outline of ""Swan Lake"" (1876), though the extent of Tchaikovsky's use of Musäus' story is challenged by some such as Russian ballet patriarch Fyodor Lopukhov, who argue the ballet is essentially Russian. One of the ""Volksmärchen"" translated into French (""Stumme Liebe"" translated"
"was fictionalized in Peter Cannon's 1985 novel ""Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club as if Narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr."". Long was a Guest of Honour at the Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence in 1990. Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included ""The Hounds of Tindalos"" (the first Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), ""The Horror from the Hills"" (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos), and ""The Space-Eaters"" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as its main character). A number of other"
"The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" and ""Rip Van Winkle"". It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. ""The Sketch Book"", along with James Fenimore Cooper's ""Leatherstocking"
"as Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1387), Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" (1605), William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759), William Makepeace Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"" (1847), as well as more recent works such as J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" (1954–1955), or Douglas Adams' ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (1979). Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's ""Lost in the Funhouse"", Robert Coover's ""The Babysitter"" and ""The Magic Poker"", Kurt Vonnegut's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", Thomas"
"and extremely ambitions presentation of Washington Irving's classic American Folk Tale, ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", the story of a restless ghost, a scheming schoolmaster, an apprehensive heiress and a teenage girl who thinks demons are delightful. This musical comedy was written by Judy Freed, music by Elizabeth Doyle and lyrics by Owen Kalt. This production included two full casts performing the same show at the same time (one visually on stage with puppetry, and one as a Greek chorus orally interpreting the script, with full orchestra.) The production used a novel combination of puppetry traditions- Clark used ""bunraku"", a"
"The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' third omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in September 2004 and is still in print. This edition is the third in Penguin Classics' series of paperback collections. It collects the ""definitive"" editions of Lovecraft's popular stories as edited by S. T. Joshi. Its companion volumes from Penguin Classics are ""The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories"" (2001), and ""The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories"" (2001)."
"Ichabod Crane Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in Washington Irving's short story, ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", first published in 1820. In popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as ""The Headless Horseman."" Crane is invariably portrayed, in the original work and in most adaptations as a tall, lanky individual with a scarecrow affect. Ichabod -- meaning ""without glory"" -- comes from the biblical name of the grandson of Eli the High Priest and son of Phinehas. Irving might have borrowed the name from that of Ichabod Crane, a colonel in the US Army during the"
"a Headless Horseman. It has been adapted for film and television many times, such as ""Sleepy Hollow"", a successful 1999 feature film. The ""classic"" ghost story arose during the Victorian period, and included authors such as M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Violet Hunt, and Henry James. Classic ghost stories were influenced by the gothic fiction tradition, and contain elements of folklore and psychology. M. R. James summed up the essential elements of a ghost story as, “Malevolence and terror, the glare of evil faces, ‘the stony grin of unearthly malice', pursuing forms in darkness, and 'long-drawn, distant screams', are"
"the 1953 publication ""The Golden Apples of the Sun"", the Japanese publications ""The Fog Horn & Other Stories"" in 1979 and ""The Fog Horn and Other Stories"" in 1981 (both editions were published in English also), and finally ""Dinosaur Tales"" in 1983. A play based on the short story was included in Bradbury's ""Pillar of Fire and Other Plays"" in 1975. The plot in the thirteenth episode of ""Pokémon"", ""Mystery at the Lighthouse"", is based on this short story. Leonard Nimoy stated that this story was part of the inspiration behind """". In 1953 in the comic book ""Tales of"
"the eagle's left claw in the Great Seal of the United States. Any review of the legacy of New Netherland is complicated by the enormous impact of Washington Irving's satirical ""A History of New York"" and its famous fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving's romantic vision of an enlightened, languid Dutch yeomanry dominated the popular imagination about the colony since its publication in 1809. To this day, many mistakenly believe that Irving's two most famous short stories, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", are based on actual folk tales of Dutch peasants in the Hudson Valley. The tradition"
"""The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories"" contains the following tales: All of the stories collected in this edition can also be found at . Scholars should note that the texts transcribed on Wikisource ""may"" contain errors, or may represent ""uncorrected"" versions. The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' third omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in September 2004 and is still in print. This edition is the third in Penguin Classics' series"
"Published for the New Jersey Historical Society by the Grassmann Pub. Co., 1964 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized September 22, 2008 Ichabod Crane (colonel) Ichabod Bennet Crane (July 18, 1787 – October 5, 1857) was a career military officer for 48 years and the probable namesake of the protagonist in Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"". Crane was born in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth), New Jersey. He was the son of Gen. William Crane. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1809 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, assigned to the USS ""United States"", a"
"Xothic legend cycle The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by American writer Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, primarily on Lovecraft's stories ""The Call of Cthulhu"" and ""Out of the Aeons"". The cycle is centered on a trinity of deities said to be the ""sons"" of Cthulhu: Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha, and Zoth-Ommog. The five stories that make up the cycle (in chronological order) are ""The Dweller in the Tomb"" (1971), ""Out of the Ages"" (1975), ""The Horror in the Gallery"" (1976), ""The Thing in the Pit"" (1980), and ""The Winfield"
"of the house stands at Liberty Square at The Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom; the building serves as a quick service restaurant. Notes Bibliography Further reading Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with"
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep (collection) Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories, poems and essays by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1943 and was the second collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House. 1,217 copies were printed. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story ""Beyond the Wall of Sleep"". The stories for this volume were selected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. The dust jacket art was a collage of photographs of sculptures by Clark Ashton Smith. ""Beyond the Wall of Sleep"" contains"
"essays. It included the two stories by which Irving is best remembered, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"". Many contemporary critics in England and Scotland praised the book as an original, distinctly American contribution to literarure. A century and more afterward, critics observed the influences that Irving shared with his Romantic contemporaries, in particular the influence of Sir Walter Scott, and Irving's own original contributions to literary form. At the outset, Hazlitt, on the other hand, restricts the scope of his examination of Irving's ""Geoffrey Crayon"" writings, reserving judgement about the material set in America, and choosing"
"HPL's myth [...] what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the 'great texts'."" The Dreams in the Witch House ""The Dreams in the Witch House"" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of ""Weird Tales"". Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the ""Witch House"", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts that is rumored to be cursed. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, an"
"and 1810; and Surrogate of Westchester County. He was buried in the yard of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow in Sleepy Hollow, New York. In 1851 Youngs' remains were removed to the Dale Cemetery in Ossining, New York, becoming the first interment at that cemetery. Samuel Youngs Samuel Youngs (December 4, 1760 – September 12, 1839) was an American school teacher. He was a friend of Washington Irving and elements of his life may be included in the character Ichabod Crane in Irving's story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", along with the character inspiration from Kinderhook Schoolteacher, Jesse"
"Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820), both of which appear in his collection, ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."" His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Islamic prophet Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to"
"Steranko. Four of the next five issues likewise contained adaptations: H.G. Wells' 1897 novella ""The Invisible Man"", by writer Ron Goulart and penciler Val Mayerik (#2), featuring another Steranko cover; Robert E. Howard's ""The Valley of the Worm"", co-written by Gerry Conway and Thomas and penciled by Gil Kane (#3); Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella ""Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" , by writer Goulart and artist Win Mortimer (#4); and the quasi-adaptation ""The Headless Horseman Rides Again"", writer Gary Friedrich and penciler George Tuska's original sequel to Washington Irving's 1820 short story ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow""."
"Tales of Mystery & Imagination Tales of Mystery & Imagination (often rendered as Tales of Mystery and Imagination) is a popular title for posthumous compilations of writings by American author, essayist and poet Edgar Allan Poe and was the first complete collection of his works specifically restricting itself to his suspenseful and related tales. In 1839, during Poe's lifetime, a collection of his strange tales was published, but it did not include some highly regarded tales which were written later, including ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" and ""A Descent into the Maelström"". The first posthumous collection of Poe's works"
"from Irving's collection of short stories entitled ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."", has worked itself into known American folklore/legend through literature and film. The legend of the Headless Horseman (also known as ""the Headless Hessian of the Hollow"") begins in Sleepy Hollow, New York, during the American Revolutionary War. Traditional folklore holds that the Horseman was a Hessian trooper who was killed during the Battle of White Plains in 1776. He was decapitated by an American cannonball, and the shattered remains of his head were left on the battlefield while his comrades hastily carried his body away. Eventually"