The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow by Mark Latham

Author:Mark Latham
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781472807991
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

One of the most haunted public houses in Britain, in the Cheshire village of Duddon, plagued by the headless ghost of the murdered Grace Trigg.

Upon hearing this story, Irving secured rooms for the night and, against the advice of the innkeeper, insisted on staying in the attic. Using his books from the New York Lycean, he cast about his bed a circle of protection, and spent the night in silent vigil. He was only partly disappointed – although no apparition appeared before him, he did hear a quiet sobbing from the corner of the attic room, which filled him with great melancholy. When the sobbing stopped, Irving – remembering his last encounter with a headless spirit – lit his lantern and ventured from his circle. In the far corner of the room, he was horrified to discover a pool of dark blood, seeping across the floorboards. Irving retreated back to his bed at once, and spent a restless night. The next morning, the landlord informed Irving that the blood stain often appeared, especially at night, and no amount of scrubbing would remove it.

The interlude was a strange one, but it led to further delving into Britain’s folklore. Once Irving’s business in Chester was complete, he spent some time in London at the original Lycean Club. Welcomed as an American member of the elite club, Irving spent much time in the library, which was packed full of esoteric writings. There he learned of the Black Shucks – ghostly dogs that supposedly roam rural England and whose appearance precedes tragedy. Oftentimes the great black hounds have no heads, and yet manage to howl all the same, their chilling calls echoing across windswept moors across England, from Dartmoor to York. He read of the myriad headless ghosts of England who, like Grace Trigg, seem earthbound and set on some purpose that is unfathomable to men. From Anne Boleyn to Sir Walter Raleigh, these spirits most often wander great ancestral piles, as if somehow royal blood imbues them with particular unearthly vigor.

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