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Sexy Sleepy Hollow #1
Riding The Headless Horseman
Arletta Harrington doesn't believe in Death.
It's Halloween in Sleepy Hollow and Arletta is spending the night selling tarot readings to her fellow townsfolk (the ones who
don't see her witchcraft as the work of the Devil that is). The people of Sleepy Hollow believe in many magical things but the one Arletta firmly doesn't believe in is Death. The deadly rider of The Hollow. The Headless Horseman. All of that changes when she encounters him on her late night walk. He senses how powerful her magic is and knows he has to have her. He whisks her away to his realm and tells her of his plans to make her his forever. Though she may be resistant at first after a passionate night spent with the messenger of Death, she isn't so sure being his sounds like such a bad idea after all. But Halloween can't last forever...can it?
This book contains content that isn't appropriate for all readers. Please check author's website for a detailed list of content warnings.
It's Halloween in Sleepy Hollow and Arletta is spending the night selling tarot readings to her fellow townsfolk (the ones who
don't see her witchcraft as the work of the Devil that is). The people of Sleepy Hollow believe in many magical things but the one Arletta firmly doesn't believe in is Death. The deadly rider of The Hollow. The Headless Horseman. All of that changes when she encounters him on her late night walk. He senses how powerful her magic is and knows he has to have her. He whisks her away to his realm and tells her of his plans to make her his forever. Though she may be resistant at first after a passionate night spent with the messenger of Death, she isn't so sure being his sounds like such a bad idea after all. But Halloween can't last forever...can it?
This book contains content that isn't appropriate for all readers. Please check author's website for a detailed list of content warnings.
53 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 22, 2022
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Molly Likovich
23 books295 followersMolly Likovich is the author of gothic romances, poetry, and the occasional play. When she's not writing she can be found lurking around the local graveyard.
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August 29, 2025
I'm just a simple, spooky lady writing about getting railed by creatures from gothic horror stories.
October 6, 2024
The adventures of Dickabod Crane - Headless Spanker
Celebrating the final night of spooky season by raiding the kids’ candy and traumatizing my hubs by reading him monster smut!
Well this wasn’t as bad as the Easter bunny book, it didn’t take itself very seriously, but honestly, who knew the headless horseman was such a kinky freak?
I was ready to give this three stars because it made me laugh more than cringe but my husband is not into bondage and sadism in his monster smut (he’s no fun), so two stars it is!
Hubs’ final thoughts: there was way too much moaning, I just want to eat my candy and forget about this.
Celebrating the final night of spooky season by raiding the kids’ candy and traumatizing my hubs by reading him monster smut!
Well this wasn’t as bad as the Easter bunny book, it didn’t take itself very seriously, but honestly, who knew the headless horseman was such a kinky freak?
I was ready to give this three stars because it made me laugh more than cringe but my husband is not into bondage and sadism in his monster smut (he’s no fun), so two stars it is!
Hubs’ final thoughts: there was way too much moaning, I just want to eat my candy and forget about this.
October 31, 2023
buddyread with my lovely Christina💗 but i guess i'm the worst possible partner for it because i finished early🥺
“Behave, little mortal. I told you I do not want to punish you, but I will.”
you can punish me all day any day master🤰🏼🤰🏼🤰🏼
“You are an inquisitive one, my Arletta.” 😌
“I’m not your Arletta.” 😦
“Not yet. But you will be. You will see. Fear can turn to love.” 🥰
do i recommend this? i'm actually daring everyone to read this🤭 absolutely delightful
can you imagine falling for this? no? wait until you read about him😋💋🤠🤭💗
“Behave, little mortal. I told you I do not want to punish you, but I will.”
you can punish me all day any day master🤰🏼🤰🏼🤰🏼
“You are an inquisitive one, my Arletta.” 😌
“I’m not your Arletta.” 😦
“Not yet. But you will be. You will see. Fear can turn to love.” 🥰
do i recommend this? i'm actually daring everyone to read this🤭 absolutely delightful
can you imagine falling for this? no? wait until you read about him😋💋🤠🤭💗
October 30, 2023
I’m in the Halloween spirit now
And some riding was definitely done…
SHOUTOUT TO KRISTINA for recommending this book 🤡
Another Halloween week book down, my second with the headless horseman retelling 😈.
Arletta (28) lives a lonely life. She’s a witch and reads tarot cards, and, because of that, isn’t treated nicely.
It’s Hallows Eve and she’s walking when she’s taken by a shadowy figure, a man, a headless man😅 on a horse, one that has a pumpkin as a head.
He takes her to his realm and he plans to claim her…
And claim her he does 😉🔥
Oh this was 🔥🥵.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Even though Arletta is “taken”, there’s an attraction to this horseman who knows his way around her body, and although he doesn’t have a head, he has the body of a man and the hands of a god (ahem. I mean man… lol) and he knows how to use them 😉🔥. And use them he does 💦.
As they get to know each other (he knows her more than she knows him… duh… he’s death 😬😅), she realizes she wants to kiss him, wants to savor his mouth.. and she’s gonna do what she’s gotta do to get that done 👀
SPOILER SPOILER
she’s successful 😉 and then he takes advantage of his newly-old head and does lots of 😜 to her 🥵 lol
END SPOILER
It ends in an HEA but I would say it’s more like HFN 😏… I just wish it was longer 😏. Oh and they maybe some of the bad people would’ve gotten some comeuppance 😏.
Overall, a good, quick, fun, Halloweeny story
⚠️safety squad⚠️
-no cheating/sharing/owd/omd
-domestic violence recounted
-spanking/praise kink/D-s/candle wax/p spanking
-separation/6 months
-no condoms 😅 duh
-HEA/HFN
And some riding was definitely done…
SHOUTOUT TO KRISTINA for recommending this book 🤡
Another Halloween week book down, my second with the headless horseman retelling 😈.
Arletta (28) lives a lonely life. She’s a witch and reads tarot cards, and, because of that, isn’t treated nicely.
It’s Hallows Eve and she’s walking when she’s taken by a shadowy figure, a man, a headless man😅 on a horse, one that has a pumpkin as a head.
He takes her to his realm and he plans to claim her…
And claim her he does 😉🔥
Oh this was 🔥🥵.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Even though Arletta is “taken”, there’s an attraction to this horseman who knows his way around her body, and although he doesn’t have a head, he has the body of a man and the hands of a god (ahem. I mean man… lol) and he knows how to use them 😉🔥. And use them he does 💦.
As they get to know each other (he knows her more than she knows him… duh… he’s death 😬😅), she realizes she wants to kiss him, wants to savor his mouth.. and she’s gonna do what she’s gotta do to get that done 👀
SPOILER SPOILER
she’s successful 😉 and then he takes advantage of his newly-old head and does lots of 😜 to her 🥵 lol
END SPOILER
It ends in an HEA but I would say it’s more like HFN 😏… I just wish it was longer 😏. Oh and they maybe some of the bad people would’ve gotten some comeuppance 😏.
Overall, a good, quick, fun, Halloweeny story
⚠️safety squad⚠️
-no cheating/sharing/owd/omd
-domestic violence recounted
-spanking/praise kink/D-s/candle wax/p spanking
-separation/6 months
-no condoms 😅 duh
-HEA/HFN
November 3, 2025
Fiebertraum. 🥲
October 13, 2025
His mansion was made of bone, but turns out he had the biggest bone of them all
October 24, 2023
I regret nothing!!!
Read
October 7, 2023extraño mi vida antes de leer este libro
July 20, 2023
Steamy, Sleepy Hallow themed novella with LOTS of witchy and Halloween vibes.
It’s super entertaining, goofy, and surprisingly cute and wholesome in the end.
It’s on KU and it’s only 53 pages. Go read it. Go read it right now. 5 ⭐️
It’s super entertaining, goofy, and surprisingly cute and wholesome in the end.
It’s on KU and it’s only 53 pages. Go read it. Go read it right now. 5 ⭐️
October 19, 2025
Meh, sin más
March 8, 2023
It may not be Halloween time, but it's always the right time to read spooky stories about Headless Horsemen who go abducting witchy fair maidens during All Hallows Eve!!
I've been wanting to read Molly Likovich's books for over a year now, and I'll hopefully get through them all this month. If they're all as good as this one I might have to force myself to not binge them all in like a day.
But yeah, this was so so good, I've always kind of had a weird thing for the Headless Horseman and apparently other people do too. Welcome to the spooky club my friends.
I WISH IT WAS LONGER THOUGH. Luckily there's another book coming, but that's months awayyyyyy. How will I survive????
I've been wanting to read Molly Likovich's books for over a year now, and I'll hopefully get through them all this month. If they're all as good as this one I might have to force myself to not binge them all in like a day.
But yeah, this was so so good, I've always kind of had a weird thing for the Headless Horseman and apparently other people do too. Welcome to the spooky club my friends.
I WISH IT WAS LONGER THOUGH. Luckily there's another book coming, but that's months awayyyyyy. How will I survive????
March 24, 2024
This was the funniest thing I've ever read!!
June 14, 2024
short, easy to read, hooks you in very quickly and is very +18🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶
imagine being the love of the Headless Horseman😱😳
imagine being the love of the Headless Horseman😱😳
October 8, 2023
Calling all pumpkin-spice loving book wh*res🗣️🗣️🗣️
Behind on your reading goal?
In a slump?
Need a fast read to cleanse your palate?
In the mood for something witchy but don’t want to commit to a full book?
Just looking for a quick/smutty read to Jack O-ff too?
FRET NOT. Riding the Headless Horseman is the cure. (She f*cks the headless horseman. That’s the plot. And it’s hot.)
I would have given this five stars, however, I did have one deduction (there was, unfortunately, an instance in which the word “folds” just dried up my pumpkin juice.)
Other than that, 10/10 recommend reading this novella and adding it to your October TBR. I promise you will enjoy smashing this pumpkin.
Behind on your reading goal?
In a slump?
Need a fast read to cleanse your palate?
In the mood for something witchy but don’t want to commit to a full book?
Just looking for a quick/smutty read to Jack O-ff too?
FRET NOT. Riding the Headless Horseman is the cure. (She f*cks the headless horseman. That’s the plot. And it’s hot.)
I would have given this five stars, however, I did have one deduction (there was, unfortunately, an instance in which the word “folds” just dried up my pumpkin juice.)
Other than that, 10/10 recommend reading this novella and adding it to your October TBR. I promise you will enjoy smashing this pumpkin.
November 1, 2022
Happy Halloween. 🎃 She “rides” the headless horseman
October 30, 2023
RATING: 3✨
SPICE: 🌶️🌶️
Trope/Setting Highlights:
#️⃣ ~50-page novella/short story
📖 Witch FMC x headless horseman MMC
📖 Halloween vibes
📖 Insta-lust + insta-love
📖 HEA after 6-month separation
🌶️PWP
🌶️Dub-non
🌶️Spanking
🌶️More dominant MMC
Review:
Am I in the holiday spirit, or is the holiday spirit… in me?
Buddy read with the diamond of the spooky season @buket! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Riding The Headless Horseman by Molly Likovich is the short tale of the Headless Horseman finding his love match in our FMC. Insta-everything and plot-lite/smut-heavy, this is for readers who want some spice in their Halloween.
This isn’t Shakespeare, but did Shakespeare let us get dicked down by the Headless Horseman? I think not.
Happy holidays🖤
SPICE: 🌶️🌶️
Trope/Setting Highlights:
#️⃣ ~50-page novella/short story
📖 Witch FMC x headless horseman MMC
📖 Halloween vibes
📖 Insta-lust + insta-love
📖 HEA after 6-month separation
🌶️PWP
🌶️Dub-non
🌶️Spanking
🌶️More dominant MMC
Review:
Am I in the holiday spirit, or is the holiday spirit… in me?
Buddy read with the diamond of the spooky season @buket! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Riding The Headless Horseman by Molly Likovich is the short tale of the Headless Horseman finding his love match in our FMC. Insta-everything and plot-lite/smut-heavy, this is for readers who want some spice in their Halloween.
This isn’t Shakespeare, but did Shakespeare let us get dicked down by the Headless Horseman? I think not.
Happy holidays🖤
November 25, 2022
This very short novella had no business being that cute, hot, and interesting. I wish it was longer!
June 12, 2025
This is rough all around and the narration only made it worse.
November 1, 2023
Simply Hysterical!
Silly from start to finish with so much fantasticism it became hilarious really early on.
Fucking 'Wax play' on a headless horseman fanfiction?? + He's a Soft Dom that discussed nothing about it with Arletta but willed her to just roll with it? MENTAL!
The Horse being a complicit to Arlettas escape had me in stitches!
3 stars because it made my day!
Silly from start to finish with so much fantasticism it became hilarious really early on.
Fucking 'Wax play' on a headless horseman fanfiction?? + He's a Soft Dom that discussed nothing about it with Arletta but willed her to just roll with it? MENTAL!
The Horse being a complicit to Arlettas escape had me in stitches!
3 stars because it made my day!
September 30, 2022
when i read these short, monster romance stories i don't want the monster to turn into a hot human. i also don't read them to start over analyzing everything, because it is a HEADLESS HORSEMAN story, so I should just have a good time, enjoy the steam, and be done.
Instead, this one rubbed me the wrong way, especially since the witch is so intent on finding his head, breaks his heart in the process to go find it, and then he transforms into a hot man when she puts the skull on him. meh.
overall just did not work for me at all, and yes it is steamy and that was a bit fun, but not enough to make me overlook everything I did not enjoy.
author has content notes in the front matter of the book
Instead, this one rubbed me the wrong way, especially since the witch is so intent on finding his head, breaks his heart in the process to go find it, and then he transforms into a hot man when she puts the skull on him. meh.
overall just did not work for me at all, and yes it is steamy and that was a bit fun, but not enough to make me overlook everything I did not enjoy.
author has content notes in the front matter of the book
September 1, 2024
Ugh. The forced Dom/sub deal with him giving her titty twisters and telling her to obey him was NOT hot. It was odd and unconvincing. Spice was rushed and the writing wasn’t strong enough to get me to buy in to the FMC getting her clit slapped by her kidnapper and suddenly being into BDSM.
Headless Horseman was just like some rando guy that watched one kinky video online and decided being rude and aggressive was how to be a sexy dominant man.
They bone all over the house like they had a checklist to fulfill for Halloween night and then don’t speak for 6 months then proclaim their love. What?
Also she grave robs and gives him a skull and he gets a human head at the end? Disappointing. He’s a monster spirit whatever keep it that way. Don’t give me the headless horseman and not get the pumpkin head involved. Also a missed opportunity to talk about the headless horseman giving or getting head.
Headless Horseman was just like some rando guy that watched one kinky video online and decided being rude and aggressive was how to be a sexy dominant man.
They bone all over the house like they had a checklist to fulfill for Halloween night and then don’t speak for 6 months then proclaim their love. What?
Also she grave robs and gives him a skull and he gets a human head at the end? Disappointing. He’s a monster spirit whatever keep it that way. Don’t give me the headless horseman and not get the pumpkin head involved. Also a missed opportunity to talk about the headless horseman giving or getting head.
October 1, 2022
okay wait I really liked this!
first of all, I LOVE the fmc. I had a feeling two pages in I was gonna like this, and yes, yes I did :)
PERFECT Halloween story, definitely recommend!!
first of all, I LOVE the fmc. I had a feeling two pages in I was gonna like this, and yes, yes I did :)
PERFECT Halloween story, definitely recommend!!
December 25, 2022
I’m really just reading the most horniest and stupidest things to complete my reading goal 💀👍🏽
October 9, 2024
This was an incredibly spicy Halloween read. It was very unique it had some questionable themes in there but all in all it was fun.
October 17, 2022
Super fun sweet and spicy spooky novella where the love interest is the headless horsemen.
I mean where can you go wrong? Especially for Halloween.
Definitely recommend.
4.5⭐️
I mean where can you go wrong? Especially for Halloween.
Definitely recommend.
4.5⭐️
October 8, 2023
happy halloweeeen! 🎃 i actually really loved this book
October 1, 2024
This story could have been so much fun, but the writing and a very unlikeable main character mostly ruined it for me. Why is this alleged lifelong witch, who was raised in a family of witches, so clueless about her own craft (and the craft of others)? And how is she this close-minded despite her craft? Maybe I could have enjoyed this more if it hadn't irked me on such a personal level. 😅 Also... who the fuck names their partner after the place they were born? Like, how unimaginative can you possibly be?
Buddy read with Malli! ♥ (thank you for making this bearable with our rant sessions lol)
Buddy read with Malli! ♥ (thank you for making this bearable with our rant sessions lol)
October 20, 2023
3.5 ⭐️ I don’t blame her, I’d fuck him also 🎃
October 2, 2022
I expected this to be bad.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually really enjoyed it. It was the perfect Halloween quick read.
No horrific monster smut (boogie man I’m looking at you). Just a dude with a pumpkin for a head. It’s only weird if you make it weird 😂.
Arletta was snarky and sassy and witchy and I adored her. I actually really liked Hesse’s character but I wish we got more of him.
I would’ve read 400 pages of them. 53 was not nearly enough (although the story was wrapped up nicely)
10/10 go read it for spooky season
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually really enjoyed it. It was the perfect Halloween quick read.
No horrific monster smut (boogie man I’m looking at you). Just a dude with a pumpkin for a head. It’s only weird if you make it weird 😂.
Arletta was snarky and sassy and witchy and I adored her. I actually really liked Hesse’s character but I wish we got more of him.
I would’ve read 400 pages of them. 53 was not nearly enough (although the story was wrapped up nicely)
10/10 go read it for spooky season
February 1, 2026
Dreaming to go into the woods somewhere an encounter one of Likovich’s creatures and go off into another world.
Her main characters are always a thrill to read. How self aware and intelligent they are. How open to whatever weird thing that comes their way.
Truly a delight to enter the spooky season 🖤🦇🎃
Her main characters are always a thrill to read. How self aware and intelligent they are. How open to whatever weird thing that comes their way.
Truly a delight to enter the spooky season 🖤🦇🎃
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