Happy Halloween!

I've been looking for some good Halloween-related reading, but I haven't been able to find much.
I checked out from the library "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," aka the story of the Headless Horseman, but it wasn't quite what I had in mind.
Reading it now as an adult, I can tell that it's supposed to be clever. Ichabod is the pretentious schoolmaster trying to win the hand of the lovely and rich Katrina Van Tassel. But Ichabod's devil-may-care rival Brom Bones triumphs using his country wisdom and the legend of the Horseman.
Maybe Ichabod's fall was an original storyline in the 1800s, but now it seems like just another page in America's long history of anti-intellectualism.
Not that I liked Ichabod, mind you. He clearly just wanted to marry Katrina for her money, the jerk.
Nevertheless, I will give Washington Irving lots of credit for vivid writing. Here's his description of Ichabod:

The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.

You can read the whole story for yourself here.

If you know of a good Halloween book or story, post it in the comments or send me an email. (You can use the "Email me" link on the upper right.)