Agent: Lucienne Diver, the Knight Agency. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Readers won’t be wowed, but they will be entertained. I’ve got a sneak peek at the first chapter for you below, followed by the U.S. Occasional wobbles of worldbuilding-how are there residents Ben doesn’t know in a one-street village?-and the handling of Ben’s gender identity, combined with flip-the-switch character development, tarnish but do not ruin the experience. It will be out on September 28th, 2021, just in time for your spooky season reading. Uncovering those motivations, as well as his family history and why the evil haunts it, soon consumes every aspect of Ben’s existence. This monstrous evil is not the Horseman-though Ben senses him, too, as a weird guardian with altogether different intentions. Later, Ben’s sense of an eerie presence in his grandfather’s fields is confirmed when he spies a creature sucking blood from a second victim. Skylarking in the autumn woods, Ben witnesses village men conferring over the headless, handless body of another local boy. Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the. Twenty years after the events of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 14-year-old trans boy Ben Van Brunt is raised by his grandparents, the rollicking Brom “Bones” Van Brunt and prim Kristina Van Tassel, in the small New York town, his parents long dead in mysterious circumstances. If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours. 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.The horror in this sequel to the classic Irving yarn from Henry ( Near the Bone) isn’t particularly fresh-it’s a straightforward monster-in-the-woods scenario-but there’s still plenty to keep the pages turning. Fourteen-year-old Ben loves to play 'Sleepy Hollow boys,' reenacting the events Brom once lived through. Twenty years after those storied events, the village is a quiet place. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking.

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.

It does not detract from the original narrative instead it builds on lore, history and character by functioning as a sequel. In this atmospheric, terrifying novel that draws strongly from 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' the author of Alice and Lost Boy works her trademark magic,Įveryone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Christina Henry’s Horseman offers a lot to the Sleepy Hollow story.

Horseman by christina henry