Tom Mison, star of the hit Fox series Sleepy Hollow, narrates the classic Washington Irving short story.
In the secluded Dutch territory of Sleepy Hollow, nebbish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with the town hero for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel’s farm one autumn evening, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, an apparition said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper snuffed out by a stray cannonball during the Revolutionary War.
Well Done When reading the print version of this story, my mind could never have created the brilliant scenes brought forth by listening to Mison’s spirited voice describing everything from the headless Hessian to pigeon pie. Stunning.
Beautifully done! What a beautiful reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Tom Mison’s narration brings the story alive! One of the best readers I have heard.
Absolutely atmospheric, and the perfect way to ‘rediscover’ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Mison is phenomenal! I’ve been a fan of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ since I initially encountered it in high school. Add in a few re-reads over the years, a rather disturbingly atmospheric film featuring Johnny Depp, a few modern fictional spin-offs of the legend in books, and most recently, the truly remarkable series, Sleepy Hollow, starring Tom Mison. I have a deep and abiding love of this legend, so when Audible offered a free audio of ‘…Sleepy Hollow’, narrated by Tom Mison, I was seriously excited. He…