Sleepy Hollow: Rise Headless and Ride (Jason Crane)

"Read this novel if you want something authentic of Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman. Dare I say it, this should have been the book film makers used to retell old Irving's gem." -- Jonathan Kruk, Official Storyteller of Sleepy Hollow and author of "Legends and Lore of the Hudson Valley"

"May I present the Last Descendant of Ichabod Crane..."

JASON CRANE just turned seventeen years old.

He's a STAR WARS fan and a history geek. He doesn't believe in ghosts or the afterlife. He doesn't believe in psychic powers or tarot cards. He doesn't believe in the HEADLESS HORSEMAN.

But SLEEPY HOLLOW will change all that. Because Jason Crane has a heritage to claim. Jason Crane has a Gift to discover. And Jason Crane has an old enemy who will RISE HEADLESS AND RIDE.

Richard Gleaves never planned to be a novelist, but one Halloween he visited the real town of Sleepy Hollow and something bit him. He was standing in the Old Dutch Burying Ground, which according to legend isthe site of the Horseman's burial, when he was struck by a story, fullyformed, about the last descendant of Ichabod Crane returning to SleepyHollow.

Returning home, he started typing. The full tale (3enormous novels) took over half a million words and three years toachieve. The Jason Crane Sleepy Hollow Trilogy was written largely onsite as Richard returned over and over to the Hollow, walking around the modern town with a tape recorder-- rediscovering the haunts ofWashington Irving, writing scenes at 2 a.m. while wandering the gravesof the cemetery or dangling his legs off a broken colonial-era bridgedeep in the woods.

Jason Crane's Sleepy Hollow adventure was anadventure for its author as well, taking him down into old aqueducts, to historic societies and Hudson Valley landmarks. The "young adult" toneof Rise Headless and Ride gave way to darker mysteries and more adult themes in Bridge of Bones and General of the Dead and an entire universe opened up. A universe of hidden witches, a Great Curse, Headless Horseman, family secrets, murder, ancestral fortunes,puzzle locks, young love, and persistent everyday evils, all braidedtogether into a Halloween epic that's impossible to put down.