I had never actually read either of these. Maybe I had read a picture book adaption of Sleepy Hallow, but never the actual story. Through that picture book and the Disney adaption I knew the story. Nothing really stood out as being different from those, at least not anything significant. I think having the open ending is a great way to end a story on a creepy note. You can speculate all you want, but you never really know what happened, which is just unsettling!

Rip Van Winkle is a character I had heard of, and I knew his story had something to do with sleeping, but I had definitely never read the story. It was good, not great. Rip Van Winkle himself is not a likable character, and otherwise it is just a retelling of a classic Fairy Ring sort of tale.