Leonard Everett Fisher

When Cyrus and the Greek military leaders are killed in an attempt to seize the throne of Persia, Xenophon, a young Greek soldier, is chosen to lead the troops out of the hostile country.

"It's said that Sleepy Hollow is a peculiar, bewithced town. Some mention its strange nocturnal shrieks and howls, its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, but most people talk of the Headless Horseman. Unlucky travellers are frightened by a giant, ghostly soldier that rides through the night headless. Ichabod Crane, a teacher, is captivated by these tales. He doesn't realise they might be more than simply stories until late one...