The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving [1987 PAPERBACK]

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving 

VINTAGE PAPERBACK [1987] AERIE BOOKS LTD

Book is in excellent condition.  Like new with some light edge wear to cover. 

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. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless through the night, terrifying unlucky travellers.
Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is fascinated by these stories....Until late one night, walking home through Wiley's swamp, he finds that maybe they're not just stories.

What is that dark, menacing figure riding behind him on a horse? And what does it have in its hands?