Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include “Near the Bone,” “The Ghost Tree,” “Looking Glass,” “The Girl in Red,” “The Mermaid,” “Lost Boy,” “Alice,” “Red Queen,” and the seven-book urban fantasy Black Wings series. Her new book, “Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow,” is an atmospheric, terrifying novel that strongly draws from “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” spinning an engaging and frightening new story from a classic tale. It is set for release on September 28, 2021. (amazon, 2021)

“Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow” – Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt’s grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that’s just legend, the village gossips talking.

Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play “Sleepy Hollow boys,” reenacting the events Brom once lived through. But then Ben and a friend stumble across the headless body of a child in the woods near the village, and the sinister discovery makes Ben question everything the adults in Sleepy Hollow have ever said. Could the Horseman be real after all? Or does something even more sinister stalk the woods?