Washington Irving

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

Tom Mison, star of the hit Fox series Sleepy Hollow, narrates the classic Washington Irving short story....

Rip Van Winkle lived in a quiet colonial town, and had a habit of attending to everyone else's chores. Henpecked and poor, he goes squirrel hunting in the woods one day....

The story pits the new schoolmaster Ichabod Crane against the local hero and bully, Brom Bones, for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel....

Here is the complete and unabridged tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated visit to Sleepy Hollow....

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is the most famous supernatural wild chase in all of literature. One of the best-known American short stories, this tale has been produced countless times....

In The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions....

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner.

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of...

Darin steht wiederum der Namensgeber des „Big Apple" Peter Stuyvesant im Mittelpunkt, der das Volk von Manhattan um sich schart, um in die alles entscheidende Schlacht epischen Ausmaßes gegen Neu-Schweden zu ziehen, in welcher sich die Zukunft von New York entscheiden sollte.

In Stratford am Avon unternimmt Irving eine Wallfahrt zum Geburtsort Shakespeares, an welchem nebst erhaltenen Reliquien und Legenden über dessen wilde Jugendzeit eine Art konservierte Atmosphäre der Ewigkeit herrscht und diese nach wie vor Pilger aus allen Herren Ländern magisch anzieht, denn so vi

In a quiet valley where time moves a little slower and shadows fall a little longer, a tale has been whispered for generations.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the most famous supernatural wild chase in all of literature....

There's a legend in this valley about a ghostly horseman that rides by night. There are many such legends and for schoolteacher Ichabod Crane the darkness of night holds a special fascination...

Count Dracula. Frankenstein's creature. Mr. Hyde. The Headless Horseman. Four figures that helped define horror. More than 31 hours of classic horror and Gothic fiction come together in Horror Stories Collection.

One of the most oft-used themes for an author to explore is that of themselves and how they see authors in stories coping with everything around them.

Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow ist eine der bekanntesten Erzählungen der amerikanischen Literatur. Sie erzählt die Geschichte von Ichabod Crane...

This quintessential classic: the famous tale by Washington Irving of Ichabod Crane, schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow and his chance encounter with the spectral fiend, the Headless Horseman....

This audiobook is about Rip Van Winkle, who falls asleep before the Revolutionary War and wakes up 20 years later....