but there is nothing to alter the old impression at once and forever so clearly read by the sympathetic public in the pages of the Sketch Book. WASHINGTON IRVING occupied much too prominent a ...
OWING TO THE POPULAR LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, AS DEPICTED IN BOOKS, TV AND FILM, SPOOKY HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH WASHINGTON IRVING. I WOULD SAY HE’S THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN GHOST STORY WRITER.