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Hollow by C.M. Nascosta

Series:
N/A

Genre:
Erotica, Smut, Halloween, the Headless Horseman, Holiday, Romance, Paranormal, Autumn Reads, Fantasy, Voyeurism, LGBTQIA+, Ghosts, Historical Fiction, Sleepy Hollow, Anthology, Supernatural, Legendary Tales

Publication Date:
September 5, 2023

Pages Numbers:
135

Read Date:
September 7th, 2023

Date Finished:
September 7th, 2023

Rating:
4.8/5

Blurb:

This spooky season, we bring you two short tales of Sleepy Hollow to heat your chilly autumn nights.

Whether you’re in the modern Sleepy Hollow Polo Club locker room, or traveling by moonlight across that famous bridge, the Horseman rides, seeking some head. Ichabod Crane & the Headless Horsemen - In which our school master is just as greedy and contemptible as he was in the original tale.

Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow’s new schoolmaster, is on the prowl. After he happens upon two members of the polo club in flagrante delicto in the club’s locker room, he can’t get the image — or the sounds — of the headless hedonists out of his mind.

This is an MMM pairing, a modern-set Sleepy Hollow, locker room erotica featuring the hapless schoolmaster and two brawny polo horsemen. Light degradation/humiliation, voyeurism, he’s just dying to be a free-use ragdoll, and lots of headless head.

Katrina Van Tassel & the Headless Horseman - Katrina Van Tassel has a terrible gift. Since infancy, she has been able to see the spirits of strangers and departed loved ones all around her, as easily as she’s able to see her neighbors. Life tethered to death, and she’s learned to ignore them all. Katrina is no stranger to the wants of ghosts and men alike, but when this schoolmistress moves to Sleepy Hollow, she finds the wants of one particular man — and one particular ghost — too much to simply ignore.

Katrina Van Tassel & the Headless Horseman is a canon-adjacent historical retelling, putting Katrina as the main character, caught between the town hero and a headless ghost.

M/F pairing, light gore, undead pining, graveyard lovin’, Machiavellian scheming, and ALL the autumn vibes.

Review:

I know most of you might disappointed when I say I did not read the first story in this anthology (is what this might be called?). I am not into boy-love romances. My niece is and I would have asked her to dispense her thoughts on this book but I cannot get her to sit down to read anything such as a book with words rather than a manhwa/manga. So, I apologize in advance for this review.

From infancy, Katrina has had a gift - she has the ability to see the dead still tethered to the mortal realm continuing with their daily routine they had done so in life. She knows if the people in Sleepy Hollow ever learned of her gift, she would be accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake. So, Katrina politely leaves the dead alone and pretends she doesn't see them.

Here in Sleepy Hollow, Katrina Van Tassel is not the heiress of Washington Irving's novel. Here she is a school teacher who has come to the village to teach children their letters and numbers. She is also well aware of the lewd men who grace this village always wanting her in their beds.

"The horseman rides every autumn, as soon as the leaves begin to fall. He rides searching for his head, and if you happen upon him on the road, he might try to take yours, to see if it fits."

There is not a villager who is not afraid of the horseman when he rides. Most stay away from the roads he haunts and those unlucky to cross him have lost their heads. But Katrina has seen him, touched him, and when the veil grey thinner she would do it once more.

I love short stories that prepare you for the Autumn season and prepare you for those wonderful, cozy nights filled with ghostly stories to tingle the spine of all the readers who enjoy both smutty novels filled with ghost lovers. I didn't realize this was a book I needed for such an occasion (even though I am reading this during the summer hours).

I cannot wait to see more of this pairing as the author said both sets of pairings will be returning in other novels.

Final Thought:

If you want a smutty Autumn read, then this two-story anthology is the perfect novel.

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