** spoiler alert ** As a fan of Sleepy Hollow (or should I say- The Hessian)- I actually didn't read the story until fairly recently.

Before I had only ever seen the Disney movie and the Tim Burton Movie.

Since I have a Hessian fansite I figured I should at least make the effort to read the original story by Washington Irving.

I did like the story, but in my opinion it just didn't grab me as much as Tim Burtons movie.

The characters just seemed to really annoy me in the book, Katrina came across as a brattish whore, Brom Bones was just the typical bragging macho guy who you just wanted to see get killed (10 points to Mr Burton!)
and Ichabod, oh my Lord-What a horrible cowardly man he is!. Even the horseman weren't really scary or interesting. In Tim Burtons version the backstory of the horseman is more clear, the character is more well out there, more interesting if that makes sense, wheras in the book he's not really mentioned too much besides the drunken ramblings of SH villagers. And in the end it leaves you wondering if there really is a horseman, it was more likely that it were just Brom dressed up to scare Ichabod who he was annoyed at cos he fancied Katrina. and hell Ichabod was a real pansy anyway so probably just fled.

Respect to the man (Washington) for writing a story which inspired several sequels, I know you all may hate me for this but- I think i'll stick with Tim Burtons movie.