Hollow

by C.M. Nascosta

“If you're telling ghost stories, you can't leave out the Horseman.”

Two tales of Sleepy Hollow to heat your nights this autumn. 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 - MMM pairing, a modern-set Sleepy Hollow, locker room erotica featuring the hapless schoolmaster and two brawny polo horsemen. Light degradation/humiliation, voyeurism.

Katrina Van Tassel & the Headless Horseman - a canon-set retelling putting Katrina as the lead and the love interest for our headless ghost.

Genres: Romance, Monster Romance, Novella, Fantasy, Paranormal, Halloween, Paranormal Romance

ebook

First published September 5, 2023

About the author

C.M. Nascosta is an author and professional procrastinator from Cleveland, Ohio. As a child, she thought that living on Lake Erie meant one was eerie by nature, and her corresponding love of all things strange and unusual started young. She’s always preferred beasts to boys, the macabre to the milquetoast, the unknown darkness in the shadows to the Chad next door. She lives in a crumbling old Victorian with a scaredy-cat dachshund, where she writes nontraditional romances featuring beastly boys with equal parts heart and heat, and is waiting for the Hallmark Channel to get with the program and start a paranormal lovers series.

Reviews

[Ali L · Rating 3 out of 5]

Forget everything you thought you knew about headless horsemen having orgies in polo club locker rooms because this novella will unearth things you’ve never imagined (presumably, I don’t know your life).

There’s also another story about a chick who falls in love with a German dullahan (?) look love is love I don’t judge you pop off you little weirdo queen.

[Laurie (barksbooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I stumbled across this in early October floating around the bookish internet somewhere. Of course I didn’t it get read until now. I’d recommend reading it in October unless you’re really into those headless horseman vibes all year long. And that’s totally fine too.

Anyhow, this features two stories with fall vibes and the dullihan. The first is about Icabod Crane who is kind of pervy here and loves spying on two headless dudes having fun times in a locker room. This story is ridiculous and it’s meant to be. It’s fun and silly which makes the second story and its tone change a little jarring. It’s a bit more serious in tone and a little meandering and is about a young woman just trying to survive without being run out of town and being accused of being a witch. She can see ghosts and discovers she might be feeling lusty towards the big, sexy headless, murdering one. It’s a little bit of a slog at times and feels longer than it should but the end was perfect, lol. I’d definitely read the sequel next October.

[myo ⋆｡˚ ❀ * · Rating 3 out of 5]

the first part of this book was sooo good and fun and the second part was boring lol also i noticed the writing so so excessive like author spent a lot of time over explaining some things more than others

[Rachel Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m really not sure why I keep reading her books lol

[Hannah B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

That first short story was wretched and I need to bleach my brain but the longer horseman one was very compelling and perfect in its moral greyness.

[BookishKB · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️

🎃 Bookish Thoughts
Well, I wasn’t quite prepared for the amount of smut in the first story 😂🤣🫣 Which is impressive because I read a lot of smut. I really enjoyed the second story though!

[Kate V · Rating 3 out of 5]

LOL, what even was this? Points for smut and originality!

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Double treats for this spooky season, no tricks here (other than the one Katrina plans). Two delightful, snack-sized bites to enjoy!

I always love reading CM’s books, I get to luxuriate in the word choice and the story and the nonlinear telling. It is always a comfort, stepping into her pages and staying a while.

This will be permanently on my list as a story to read to begin the autumn season each year.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I want to bleach that first book from my brain.....

[Wicked Fox ✨️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hollow was perfection! It was addicting, fun and a perfect Halloween read. I had so much fun reading about Ichabod and the Headless Horsemen along with Katrina and her Headless Horseman 🥰 The first story was hot, messy and absolutely entertaining to read about. The creative use of the heads was🤌 The second story has a more romantic element to it with its spicy and delicious smut. I love a good historical romance and C. M. Nascosta delivered! I hope that we get more of Hollow in the future because I'm desperate to get to know more of these characters!

[Chloe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Have you ever started a dogshit buddy read of filthy Sleepy Hollow fanfic and then your buddy (HAYLEY!!!) ditches bc it’s not good but you’re too far in to DNF so you finish it even though you know you’re wasting your Halloween and life is too short? Me neither

[riley ☠︎︎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75 stars✨

overall, I’d say this was okay. I wasn’t a fan of the first one tbh. Ichabod was too odd for me lmfao. The second one felt like it dragged a little bit but I liked it more than the first story! I kinda want more of the second story.

[Libby · Rating 2 out of 5]

I actually liked the first story WAY more than the second. That alone could be three stars.

Wild concept and even wilder plot development throughout both stories.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

CM Nascosta’s delightfully filthy brain has gifted us with two stories starring the Headless Horseman. All I can say is wow! Everyone deserves head … errr ummm a head. 😏

[Christina (stinarinareads) · Rating 3 out of 5]

getting into the holiday spirit early with a little ghost smut👻🎃

[Sabrina Ravenscroft · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don’t read. Alex was being a bully for book club and picked a random book.

[Amber Pickarts]

0 stars, was book club book, I would like to scrub this from my mind.

[AJ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don’t think it’s a book problem, more like a me problem. Just not for me.

[S.L. Prater · Rating 5 out of 5]

I devoured this one!

It opens with a fun, high heat modern erotica featuring Ichabod Crane and a brawny headless horseman and concludes with a historical reimagining set in Sleepy Hollow. I enjoyed both, but It was the romance between schoolmistress Katrina Van Tessel and the infamous Headless Horseman that had my heart.

I was immediately charmed by Katrina’s insistence on treating the ghosts she has the ability to see just as politely as the living. Combined with her insistence on independence and her commitment to teaching young girls to read and write so that they may have their own voice, I simply adored her. I’m an absolute sucker for a heroine who fights to pave the way for other women.

I can’t talk about a book written by C.M. Nascosta without using the word “evocative.” The writing always transports me to other places. It’s so vivid. I devour these books with all of my senses.

[Nan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Respectfully, ummm what?

Points for originality. When I first came across this book I was immediately intrigued. It sounded like my kind of chaos. The first story was a silly and fun read (and a good length for what it was). The second part just felt so long to me. It was honestly kind of boring and took me forever to get through because I kept going to my other reads.

Also, the comparing of human anatomy to foods gives me the ick and this happened in both stories, which is just not for me.

[Jenn (The Book Refuge) · Rating 3 out of 5]

First story was a kinda fun MMM locker room gangbang... some voyuerism and lots of dirty talking.

The second story was... just a big ball of nope for me. And it honestly made me uncomfortable. But no kink shaming from me. Have at it!! 😄😄

2.5 stars
3.5 on the spice scale

[Meena Sharma · Rating 2 out of 5]

not for me

How does a novellla this short seem so long?
I live a spooky, smutty read, but this wasn’t able to hold my attention.

[Erica · Rating 3 out of 5]

The amount of ✨creative✨ words for certain *ahem* ✨body parts✨ was very entertaining lmfao. Was this good? Idk. But I had a fun time.

[Zen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I didn't really enjoy the first story. There really wasn't !such story to it, really. I did like the second and am curious to see what becomes of Katrina and her horseman.

[Rachael · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean she fucks a headless horseman.
Tis the season. 🐎🎃

[Kazen]

Nascosta books either work for me or don't, there's no middle ground. This one didn't click so I DNFed it on the early side. I guess headless men giving and receiving head isn't my thing?

[Laylah · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 vastly different novellas with the same characters?

Honestly, I went into this expecting a fun, smutty, spooky, monster time, the first story delivered on that, but the second one was such a let-down.

[Kirstine Hansen]

Up until now, I've loved every single Nacosta book I've read, but this is just stupid. I've heard people call it funny and exaggerated in a good way, but I've read porn with more plot, and the thesaurus abuse is, well, also stupid.

The locker room was the very last place he would have expected to encounter such goings on, but he supposed it was as good a place as any. Secluded and remote, and far enough away from the racquetball court that the aqueous sounds of oral enjoyment would be muted unless one was right there, as he was then.

[Mary Petrushko · Rating 2 out of 5]

6/10
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️.5
In the words of that one guy from SpongeBob, MY EYES!!! T the first book was just pure smut and crazy at that. The second book was better, but don’t expect much of a plot from these. Two words: HEADLESS HORSEMEN. 👀

[Barb · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 rounded down