In Sleepy Hollow, time seemed to stand still. The village seemed frozen inside a soap bubble - or maybe it was bound by some kind of spell, which is why it remains the same, does not grow or change. Local residents never cross the forest border. They believe that mystical creatures live there: witches, goblins, ghosts... and the Horseman, because of whom the school teacher disappeared more than thirty years ago. True, Brom Bons, a participant in those long-ago events, claims that the Horseman is just the fruit of superstition. Ben van Brunt discovers the headless body of a boy in the forest and begins to doubt the words of his grandfather Brom. Maybe the Horseman still exists and is out hunting again? Or is something else hiding in the forests, even more sinister and unknown?