Hi, I'm an English teacher and I'd like to show students how to read a "scary" tale. We are going to study : when they should pause, what words they should stress and generally speaking what kind of intonation they should use.
[...] Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley [...] which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. [...] A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. […] The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions. […] The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. [...] Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head. […] The spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
Amawing! Thank you sooooo much :)