Washington Irving

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.

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....

The rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated courtship of Katrina Van Tassel has become a classic ghost story....

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

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

One of the most entertaining travelogues ever written....

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Washington Irving....

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

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but have you ever heard the original unabridged versions....

Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman.

Horror stories are intended to frighten, startle, and even disgust the listener. The tales of blood-sucking vampires, headless horsemen, hideous creatures, and transformed humans will leave you terrified yet compelled to listen to the next....

"I found myself thus afloat, on the skin of a buffalo, in the midst of a wild river."...

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

This charming and long forgotten holiday classic was inspired, in part, by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and other celebrations of old-time Yule. Splendid suppers, rural churches, cheerful dances, and hearty spirits imbue this short novel with the magic of the season....

La plume de Washington Irving (1783-1859) nous plonge dans le quotidien des habitants du Vallon (Sleepy Hollow). Un lieu paisible et reculé dans lequel les villageois partagent des histoires et anecdotes mystérieuses dont la plus célèbre concerne le spectre d’un cavalier sans tête....

"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....

Anjelica Huston narrates this haunting early American tale from Washington Irving following the likable but lazy Rip Van Winkle into the mysterious Catskill Mountains....

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...

The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town (based on Tarrytown, New York), in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow....

Can you imagine sleeping for twenty years? In this story by Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle wakes up to discover that the world is a very different place.