The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving

Film

• The Headless Horseman (1922), a silent film directed by Edward Venturini and starring Will Rogers as Ichabod Crane.
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), an animated adaptation directed by James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, and Jack Kinney, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and narrated by Bing Crosby. This version is more lighthearted and family-friendly than Irving's original story and most other adaptations.
• Sleepy Hollow (1999), a feature film adaption directed by Tim Burton which takes many liberties with the plot and characters.

Literature

• Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow [1] by Christina Henry, a fictional horror novel published in 2021. It takes place in Sleepy Hollow several decades after the events of the original story. It is told from the points of view of Ben Van Brunt, the only grandchild of Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt and Katrina Van Tassel.
• Raven Rock by Nichole Louise, a historical fiction novel published in 2023. A prequel to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a Headless Horseman origin story set during the American Revolution.

Television

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980), a television film directed by Henning Schellerup and filmed in Utah, starring Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane, Meg Foster as Katrina Van Tassel, and Dick Butkus as Brom Bones. Executive producer Charles Sellier was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the movie.[14]
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1985), the premiere episode of Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends series, stars Ed Begley Jr. as Ichabod Crane, Beverly D'Angelo as Katrina, Tim Thomerson as Brom, and Charles Durning as Doffue Van Tassel, who is also the narrator.
• The Hollow (2004), an ABC Family television film starring Kevin Zegers and Kaley Cuoco, and focusing on a teenage descendant of Ichabod Crane.
• Sleepy Hollow (2013), a crime/horror series in which Ichabod Crane awakens in the 21st century and teams up with Lt. Abbie Mills of the Sleepy Hollow Sheriff's Department to stop the Horseman. The show ran for four seasons.[15]
• "Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story" (2022), a web series in which Ichabod Crane and The Headless Horseman are roommates and have to work together to solve the mystery of The Horseman's head.[16]

Music

• In Sleepy Hollow (1913), a piano suite by Eastwood Lane
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1958) by doo wop band The Monotones
• "Sleepy Hollow" (1965) by singer Roy Orbison, later remastered in 2016. [2]
• The Headless Horseman (2001) by Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, for baritone, itinerant string band, and orchestra
• "Undead Ahead 2: The Tale of the Midnight Ride" (2019), by Motionless in White
• "Sleepy Hollow" (2020), a single by hip-hop artist Trippie Redd
• "Sleepy Hollow (Love is Scary)" (2020), a single by Kristen Lawrence
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", orchestra arrangement by Richard Meyer

Theatre

• Sleepy Hollow (1948), a Broadway musical, with music by George Lessner and book and lyrics by Russell Maloney and Miriam Battista. It lasted 12 performances.[17]
• Sleepy Hollow (2009), a musical with book and lyrics by Jim Christian and music by Tom Edward Clark. It premiered at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah on October 30, 2009.[18][19] It received the 2009 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Musical Theatre Award.[20]
• The Hollow (2011), a musical by Matt Conner and Hunter Foster.[21] It premiered at the Signature Theatre Company in Arlington, Virginia.
• Sleepy Hollow - A Legendary Musical (2017), a musical by Michelle Ackerman.[22]
• Tarrytown (2018), a musical by Adam Wachter. Its world premiere production at Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company won the 2018 San Diego Theatre Critics' Circle Craig Noel Award for "Best New Musical."[23] A studio cast recording starring Jeremy Jordan, Krysta Rodriguez, and Andy Mientus was released in 2020 to benefit The Actors Fund's COVID-19 relief efforts.[24]
• Ichabod: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (2022), a new production combining Conner's 2011 score with a new book by Stephen Gregory Smith that stays truer to Irving's story.[25]

Audio

• Ronald Colman was the host and narrator for a radio adaptation on NBC's Favorite Story on July 2, 1946 (requested by Walter Huston as that actor's favorite story).[26]
• An adaptation was broadcast on September 19, 1947, on NBC University of the Air: American Novels.[27]
• Bing Crosby recreated his Disney narration in Walt Disney's Ichabod and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Decca Records (DAU-725) in 1949.[28]
• In 2009 Historic Hudson Valley[29] released an unabridged dramatic reading by Jonathan Kruk[30] with musical effects by Matt Noble.
• In 2005, BBC Radio 7 broadcast a three-part reading of the story narrated by Martin Jarvis, broadcast several times since on BBC Radio 4 Extra.[31]
• Tom Mison, who starred as "Ichabod Crane" in the Fox television series Sleepy Hollow, narrated the story in 2014 for Audible Studios.[32][33]
• In 2019, the radio program Adventures in Odyssey produced an adaptation of the story titled "Icky and Kat and Balty and Bones".[34]
• In 2020, the story was adapted into a full cast audio production by Shadows at the Door: the Podcast.[35]

Comics

• The 2022 graphic novel Hollow is based on the story.

Theme Parks

• The Legend roller coaster at Holiday World in Santa Claus Indiana is based on the frightful ride of Ichabod Crane running from the Headless Horseman.