Sleepy Hollow and Headless Menaces
Well, it's the 12th anniversary of the TVCU.
Some years back, I did a TVCU Quickie on Sleepy Hollow. There I said that the TV series wasn't in the TVCU. Evidence since then has pointed that it is, but so is the original, very different story. And so, there must be more than one Ichabod Crane and Katrina. We already know there's more than one Headless Menace, or Ghost, as we've seen Headless Riders on motorcycles in the modern day.
THE SKETCHBOOK OF GEOFFREY CRAYON “THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW” (SHORT STORY BY WASHINGTON IRVING)
Release Date: 1820 (Setting is 1790)
Series: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with bullyish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel. Abraham constantly plays pranks on Ichabod to make him look bad. Ichabod is very superstitious, and at one particular party, Abraham takes advantage of this to relate many of the local ghost stories, including one of a Hessian soldier whose head had been lost by a stray cannonball. Ichabod leaves the party and finds himself chased by a rider whose head is not on his head but in his saddle. After quite a chase, the mysterious rider throws his head at Ichabod.
Notes: Irving leaves the story up to interpretation. The next morning, a smashed pumpkin is found next to Ichabod’s trampled saddle, discarded hat, and wandering horse. However, later tales that are in the Horror Universe seem to support the notion that the Headless Rider is a phenomenon that occurs whenever a rider loses his head, though not all Headless Rider ghosts are the same ghost.
May to August 1898--LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN VOLUME 1--There are tons of crossovers, which I'll mention in a moment. But why this is on this chronology is that this ties into the show EASTENDERS. That show is in the Whoniverse and League is in the Whoniverse. OK, so now the crossovers: ALLAN QUATERMAIN, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, 20000 LEAGUE UNDER THE SEA, INVISIBLE MAN, DRACULA, FU MANCHU, SHERLOCK HOLMES, C. AUGUSTE DUPIN, CAMPION BOND, WAR OF THE WORLDS, JAMES BOND, L'ASSOMMOIR, ROSA COOTE, MISS FLAYBUM, THE CORRECTIONAL ACADEMY FOR WAYWARD GENTLEWOMEN, THE YELLOW ROOM, MOBY DICK, SEXTON BLAKE, INSPECTOR DICK DONOVAN, ROBUR THE CONQUEROR, THE WARDEN, PALLISER/PARLIAMENTARY, DAVID COPPERFIELD, THE BOSTONIANS, WHAT KATY DID, REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM, POLLYANNA, LORD AND LADY POKINGHAM, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, NATTY BUMPO, SIR PERCY BLAKENEY, DR. SYN, FANNY HILL, CAPTAIN MORS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS, TREASURE ISLAND, BROAD ARROW JACK, KLIMO, DR. NIKOLA, FUTILITY, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON, OLIVER TWIST, ALLY SLOPER, WEARY WILLY AND TIRED TIM, THE HUGE HUNTER, THE PURPLE PINAEUM, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, PICKMAN'S MODEL, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, UTOPIA, ZENDA, FLATLAND, THE COMING RACE, THE LOST WORLD, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, THE STEAM HOUSE, SAPATHWA, JACK HARKAWAY'S SCHOOLDAYS, VARNEY THE VAMPIRE, SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY, SPRING-HEELED JACK, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, SWEENEY TODD, A NEW ACCELERATOR, DIXON BRENT, WU FANG, GUNGA DIN, THE MOONSTONE, THE JUNGLE BOOK, DR. DOLITTLE, THE BLACK CAT, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK, MCTEAGUE, THE MONSTER OF LAKE LAMETRIE, NICK CARTER, CTHULHU, BILLY BUNTER, A.J. RAFFLES, FRANKENSTEIN, CARMILLA, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, HEART OF DARKNESS, LONE RANGER, LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, THE FOUR FEATHERS, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, UN EXPRESS DE L'AVENIR, MELMOTH THE WANDERER, ARSENE LUPIN, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, EARTH-SPIRIT, HOBSON'S CHOICE, THE CRYSTAL EGG, VENUS IN FURS, UBU ROI, HARRY FLASHMAN, THE BEETLE, and THE PURPLE TERROR.
Release Date: 2004
Series: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Horror Crosses: Every Horror Cross from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, plus Sweeney Todd; the Black Cat; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Frankenstein (novel); Carmilla; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Island of Doctor Moreau
Non-Horror Crosses: See Notes
The Story: This game is an extension of the story from the graphic novel.
Notes: First, let me mention this is the first board game to be brought into the Horror Universe as a legit crossover. This game is meant as an expansion of the world created by the graphic novel. Thus it includes everything from the book, plus the crosses above. See Jess Nevins’ annotations for more on the non-horror crosses which are just too numerous to list here.
Series: Vampirella
Horror Crosses: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: Vampirella investigates a series of disappearances in Sleepy Hollow.
Notes: Though Sleepy Hollow is a real place, the implication of this story is that the Legend of Sleepy Hollow was a real event of the past. Sleepy Hollow is also linked to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Katrina Protocol, and others.
Release Date: January 1, 1980 [expanded in 1999] (Setting is 1980 and 1999 in expansion)
Horror Crosses: King Kong; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Siege of the Red House; The Stepford Wives; The Masque of the Red Death; Shadow: A Parable; Silence: A Parable; Jurassic Park; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos
Non-Horror Crosses: The book has 730 entries, all crossovers. Buy the book.
The Story: This is a reference guide to places that people who live within this shared fictional reality could visit.
Notes: This list of fictional settings is written under the premise that they are all real places that people could visit. Considering the above crosses, it clearly fits in the Horror Universe. Note that this brings J. Sheridan le Fanu’s The Siege of the Red House, and three works of Poe (The Masque of the Red Death, Shadow: A Parable and Silence: A Parable) into the Horror Universe.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 37 “THE HEADLESS MOTORCYCLIST”
Release Date: November 3, 1987 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The Ghostbusters are hired by a descendant of Ichabod Crane, who is pursued by the Headless Motorcyclist.
Notes: Based on this story and others, we know that the Headless Horseman takes different modern forms in different eras. We also learn that Crane’s family has been cursed to be haunted by this particular ghost throughout the ages.
DISNEY ADVENTURES # 200008 “SOCIETY OF HORRORS: THE WRAITH NEXT DOOR” (DISNEY)
Release Date: August 1, 2000 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Society of Horrors
Horror Crosses: Creature from the Black Lagoon; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Dracula (Universal); Frankenstein (Universal); Wolf Man; Mummy (Universal)
Non-Horror Crosses: You Can’t Do That On Television
The Story: A Gill-Man, a headless horseman, and an alien are roommates, who have to deal with a wraith neighbor.
Notes: The monster roommates have portraits of the Universal versions of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy hanging in their apartment. They also have green slime, like that used on Nickelodeon shows but first introduced on You Can’t Do That On Television.
SEASON 1 EPISODE 8 “BRING ME THE HEAD OF TUCKER BURNS”
Release Date: August 25, 2001 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The staff investigate a serial murderer who turns out to be a headless biker. Further investigation reveals this to be a fairly regular phenomenon that occurs on a global scale whenever a person is decapitated and the head does not get buried with the body. Examples of other cases are found in their research, including the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Notes: Since the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is in the Horror Universe, and the Chronicle refers to Legend as a real event, the Chronicle must also be in the Horror Universe.
Release Date: 2004 (Contemporary Setting, around Christmas)
Series: Scooby-Doo! (Revival Film Series)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The Mystery, Inc. gang ends up in Winter Hollow where the town is terrorized by a headless snowman.
Notes: It’s pretty clear that Winter Hollow is Sleepy Hollow and that this is another occurrence of the headless ghost phenomenon. This short is part of the revival film canon, which takes place in a divergent timeline mainly because of the ages of the characters.
Release Date: December 14, 2004 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Scooby-Doo; Casper; A Nightmare on Elm Street
Non-Horror Crosses: A Christmas Carol
The Story: Ever since he was humiliated in public by his girlfriend on Christmas, Allen Karroll has come to hate Christmas. He also hates his mean neighbor Zed Rosecog. On Christmas Eve, Allen gets visited first by Jacob Marley, then by the ghosts of Christmas Present, Past and Future. The problem is they went to the wrong address. They were to visit Mr. Rosecog, and thus show Allen Mr. Rosecog’s present, past and future Christmases. Despite this, Allen still learns a lesson about the Christmas spirit and how his own life has been intertwined with his neighbor’s.
Notes: The film indicates that the original Dickens novel happened, and visits by three ghosts is a regular thing, but that the job is not always done by the same three ghosts. The Jacob Marley is not the same from A Christmas Carol. This one was related to Bob Marley. One of the ghosts references other ghosts he knows, including the Headless Horseman, Scooby-Doo, and Casper. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is already in. Is Scooby dead? Yes, kids. In the Horror Universe, Scooby is dead. In fact, he was eaten in the film Slither. This crossover brings in Casper, the Friendly Ghost, but which version? Though I’m sure the implication is the cartoon version, there’s no solid in-story evidence to verify that. Therefore, my assumption is to consider this a reference to the version from the live action films. The first Casper film had a crossover with Ghostbusters, and thus is already solidly in the Horror Universe. A ghost also makes a reference in which he compares himself to Freddy Krueger. Though that could be a pop culture reference or a reference to a real person, in this instance, since this film has already been demonstrated to fit in the Horror Universe, we should just assume that this is indeed a reference to the Springwood Slasher.
MONTHLY SHONEN SIRIUS “MONSTER PRINCESS” (KODANSHA)
Release Date: July 2005 - April 2013 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Princess Resurrection
Horror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Dracula (Universal); Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Creature From the Black Lagoon; Invisible Man (Universal); Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Fly; Evil Dead
Non-Horror Crosses: Day of the Triffids; Angry Red Planet; Back to the Future; Star Trek; It Conquered the World
The Story: In Japan, a young man is hit by a car. As he lay there dying, he is resurrected by the princess of the Monster Realm. Not only is he brought back from death, but he becomes nearly immortal, with great power, but must serve the princess as her warrior and protector.
Notes: The series has had many links to existing series, including the ones above. I admit there are probably more that I have missed. The “Monster Realm” is probably what the Watcher’s Council (from Buffy) would refer to as a Hell Dimension.
Release Date: 2007 (Setting is August 2005)
Series: Club Van Helsing
Horror Crosses: Dracula (Bram Stoker); White Zombie; Brother Voodoo; Child’s Play; Tales of the Zombie; Revolt of the Zombies; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; I Walked with a Zombie; Zombies on Broadway; Kolchak the Night Stalker; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Works of Stephen King; Charmed; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Lives of the Mayfair Witches; The Body Snatchers (novel); Carnacki Ghost Finder; The Exorcist (novel); the Thing
Non-Horror Crosses: Too Numerous to List.
The Story: During Hurricane Katrina, Hugo Van Helsing must fight zombies raised by a voodoo priest.
Notes: Hugo Van Helsing comes from the famous vampire hunting family, and his ancestors have met many famous figures of fiction, accounting for the large number of crossovers.
Release Date: March - June 2013 (See notes for setting)
Series: Deadpool
Horror Crosses: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley); Dracula (Bram Stoker); Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Raven; The Picture of Dorian Gray
Non-Horror Crosses: Sherlock Holmes; Jungle Book; Tarzan; Ka-Zar; LIttle Mermaid; Sub-Mariner; The Time Machine; Beowulf; The Leatherstocking Tales; Mulan; Three Musketeers; Don Quixote; Moby Dick; Pinocchio; Tom Sawyer; Little Women; A Christmas Carol; Gulliver’s Travels; Treasure Island; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Macbeth; The Metamorphosis
The Story: In an alternate reality, Deadpool realizes he is fictional, and decides to destroy everyone in every reality until he reaches his “creators” in the real world.
Notes: This story involves characters from all of the above listed crosses. However, they all exist in alternate universes in various time periods. Likely none of these exist in the main Horror Universe timeline, but are all probably part of the larger Horror Multiverse.
SEASON 8 EPISODE 22 “CLIP SHOW”
Release Date: May 8, 2013 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: Crowley is killing all the people previously saved by Dean and Sam.
Notes: It’s mentioned that Ichabod Crane was possessed by a demon. Not likely that this was during the events of Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
NOV 5-7 - HYSTERIA OF THE WORLD, PART ONE: THE BATTLE OF CROWN AND SHIELD HALL [ANTILOGY]- Ivan and the Salem Batman encounter three Fairy Dragon Pirates (or were they dragon pirate faeries?) and after a brief fight (during which Ivan becomes Kavik, and momentarily turns against his bat-garbed companion), the fae reveal that the Salem Witches' Institute was recently attacked by Death-Eaters led by a sorcerer called Dark Mark, who gained access to the school using a spell cast on Samhain the week before. Many of the magical creatures dwelling in the environment around the school, including the local faerie population, was fleeing to the mortal world. Ivan calls in some fellow Ghostbusters to help contain the damage and they encounter several dark wizards seeking to break the glamours separating the school from the real world. Many of the school's staff and students also join the battle, as well as the gypsy witch Velaska Pskowski, Ivan's sorcerous ally Raven Whateley (and her metamorphic companion Craig), and members of the Addams Family, which leads to the a final confrontation in the school's Crown & Shield Hall where the dark witches and wizards (including the Sanderson Witches, recently resurrected) are ultimately defeated (though Raven is left wheelchair-bound as a result). Unfortunately the Veil concealing the school remains undone, and the damage affects similar partitions hiding the paranormal world from the normal world (and vice versa).
Salem's Batman is part of the Batman legacy of vigilante heroes; though Batman first appeared in DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (1939) the concept of Batman officially taking the brand world wide first showed up in print in BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 (2010). The Salem Witches' Institute is mentioned in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2000) though very few details of the school are suggested in that work and is here conflated with the Magic School seen in the CHARMED television series and spin-offs, beginning with the season 6 episode "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" (2004). Death-Eaters are first named in HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (1999). The Ghostbusters are based on the company from the 1984 film GHOSTBUSTERS and its multimedia spin-offs. Velaska Pskowski is an original character created by Karen June. Raven Whateley is an original character but is related to Wilbur Whateley from H P Lovecraft's THE DUNWICH HORROR (1929) and is inspired by the Teen Titans character Raven from DC COMICS PRESENTS #26 (1980), as is her companion Craig, who is based on the character Garfield Logan, aka Beast Boy, aka Changeling, from DOOM PATROL #99 (1965)/ The Addams Family members depicted (Gomez, Morticia, and Wednesday) originated in THE NEW YORKER in 1938, but their appearances here are based on the designs used in the 1964-1966 television series THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Crown & Shield Hall is an establishment in Salem based on the world of Harry Potter and named for the Crowninshield family prominent throughout the Massachusetts North Shore (and Lovecraft's fictional version of it). The Sanderson Sisters (Winifred, Sarah, and Mary) are from the 1993 film HOCUS POCUS, which is set in Salem MA.
Ivan investigates reports that an odd assortment of monsters has been spotted in the area around Mrs Duboi's Thrift Shop in Salem MA. 
Ivan remembers having a similar conversation with Larry back in 2012, and comments on the coincidence of meeting the elder werewolf at traditionally haunted locations (last time it was Sleepy Hollow), but Larry tells him that this is in accordance with prophesy, and the fact that Ivan meets him in supernatural hot-spots suggests he is to have an important role to play. Ivan suggests that Larry has been too much faith in the words of gypsy fortune tellers, but also recalls a prediction he was told 9 years earlier. Looking into these "Gatecrashers" and "Gatekeepers", Ivan learns that the Deep Ones have always fought on the side of the Old Ones, so he approaches Caleb Marsh and petitions him to help prevent the extradimensional incursion. Caleb agrees to speak to his people, but makes no promises. Ivan also encounters a number of witches and vampires in Salem that day, though they will not share their own allegiances regarding the event, and on Larry's warning, Ivan honors the truce that prevents the Gatecrashers and Gatekeepers from fighting before the big night. He does learn that many of the truly demonic witches and vampires are more likely to side with the Openers, but there are plenty that wish to defend life on Earth against the greater evil.
Mrs. Dubois' Thrift Shop is from the 2020 movie HUBIE HALLOWEEN, which is connected to other Happy Madison films, but as Hubie Halloween is set in Salem MA during October 2020 with no Pandemic, it is an AU to the TVCU timeline (the insistence on a Halloween Full Moon means it has to be set in 2020). Benandanti ("Good Walkers") and Malandanti ("Bad Walkers") are traditions dating back to 16th Century Italy but claim connections to earlier cultures such as ancient Rome, and were the focus of 1966 book THE NIGHT BATTLES: WITCHCRAFT AND AGRARIAN CULTS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.Larry Talbot is the name of several fictional werewolves, the first appearing in the 1941 film THE WOLF MAN. "Old Ones" is a generic term for otherworldly entities of sufficient power which may likely be considered by humans to be gods or demons. Salem and Sleepy Hollow are real world locations associated with Halloween hauntings in fiction and real life. Deep Ones are from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The truce preventing "Openers" and "Closers" from fighting is a reference to A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER (1993) by Roger Zelazny. The Deep Ones fought Larry Talbot in Neil Gaiman's ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN, first published in 1998.
Release Date: 2004
Series: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Horror Crosses: Every Horror Cross from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, plus Sweeney Todd; the Black Cat; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Frankenstein (novel); Carmilla; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Island of Doctor Moreau
Non-Horror Crosses: See Notes
The Story: This game is an extension of the story from the graphic novel.
Notes: First, let me mention this is the first board game to be brought into the Horror Universe as a legit crossover. This game is meant as an expansion of the world created by the graphic novel. Thus it includes everything from the book, plus the crosses above. See Jess Nevins’ annotations for more on the non-horror crosses which are just too numerous to list here.
VAMPIRELLA # 56 “THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN OF ALL-HALLOW’S EVE” (WARREN)
Release Date: December 1976 (Contemporary Setting)Series: Vampirella
Horror Crosses: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: Vampirella investigates a series of disappearances in Sleepy Hollow.
Notes: Though Sleepy Hollow is a real place, the implication of this story is that the Legend of Sleepy Hollow was a real event of the past. Sleepy Hollow is also linked to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Katrina Protocol, and others.
THE DEAD ZONE (NOVEL BY STEPHEN KING)
Release Date: August 1979 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Stephen King Universe (works of Stephen King)
The Story: A man gains the power to see the future of people that he touches, and when he sees a man who is running for president will bring about the end of the world, he takes matters to change the future, by any means necessary.
Notes: Most of the story takes place in Castle Rock, but Jerusalem’s Lot is also mentioned. The events of this story are referenced numerous times in the 1987 King novel The Tommyknockers. This story was adapted to screen in 1983. The film was remade again in 2002. While the story is in the Horror Universe/TVCU, the 1983 film is in the Cineverse. The 1983 film has references to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Blow Out, which are not valid crossovers. The film has also been referenced numerous times, including in Final Mission, The Flying Doctors and Speaking Parts. It was also spoofed many times, including in Cheers, Scary Movie and Saturday Night Live.
Release Date: January 1, 1980 [expanded in 1999] (Setting is 1980 and 1999 in expansion)
Horror Crosses: King Kong; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Siege of the Red House; The Stepford Wives; The Masque of the Red Death; Shadow: A Parable; Silence: A Parable; Jurassic Park; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos
Non-Horror Crosses: The book has 730 entries, all crossovers. Buy the book.
The Story: This is a reference guide to places that people who live within this shared fictional reality could visit.
Notes: This list of fictional settings is written under the premise that they are all real places that people could visit. Considering the above crosses, it clearly fits in the Horror Universe. Note that this brings J. Sheridan le Fanu’s The Siege of the Red House, and three works of Poe (The Masque of the Red Death, Shadow: A Parable and Silence: A Parable) into the Horror Universe.
THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS (ANIMATED SERIES)
SEASON 2 EPISODE 37 “THE HEADLESS MOTORCYCLIST”
Release Date: November 3, 1987 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The Ghostbusters are hired by a descendant of Ichabod Crane, who is pursued by the Headless Motorcyclist.
Notes: Based on this story and others, we know that the Headless Horseman takes different modern forms in different eras. We also learn that Crane’s family has been cursed to be haunted by this particular ghost throughout the ages.
1987--
DEC 24 - THE CHRISTMAS THAT ALMOST WASN'T CHRISTMAS - Ron Schablotski, Jack Kingsley, Peter Fitzhume Jr., Patricia Whately, and Lita (attending a Berkshire prep school) have a Christmas reunion in Ripton and travel CT to Westchester County, New York, where they encounter a dullahan (whom they call Mister Unlucky) in Sleepy Hollow's Old Dutch Burying Ground. Mr. Unlucky had been summoned accidentally via the Anti-Logic, and to dismiss him, Ron has to send Lita away, possibly forever.
"The Christmas That Almost Wasn't Christmas" by Kevin Heim, published in the Psychopomp
2012 Christmas Special. Peter Fitzhume is related to Emmett Fitz-Hume, an American spy from the 1985 film SPIES LIKE US. Patricia Whately is distantly related to Wilbur Whately, also from Dunwich, from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror. Ripton is a hoax community in Massachusetts, reported in The Boston Globe in 1985. Lita's Berkshire prep school is a TVCU version of the Massachusetts Academy in Snow Valley MA, which first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #151, published by Marvel Comics in 1981. Sleepy Hollow and the Old Dutch Burying Ground first appeared in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" in 1820. Mister Unlucky is a spirit being derived from manifestations of Jack Skellington as he is seen in TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993), JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (1996), and SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999).
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| Schablotski in Sleepy Hollow on Christmas Eve |
"The Christmas That Almost Wasn't Christmas" by Kevin Heim, published in the Psychopomp
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| Mr. Unlucky startles Jack & Patricia |
DISNEY ADVENTURES # 200008 “SOCIETY OF HORRORS: THE WRAITH NEXT DOOR” (DISNEY)
Release Date: August 1, 2000 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Society of Horrors
Horror Crosses: Creature from the Black Lagoon; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Dracula (Universal); Frankenstein (Universal); Wolf Man; Mummy (Universal)
Non-Horror Crosses: You Can’t Do That On Television
The Story: A Gill-Man, a headless horseman, and an alien are roommates, who have to deal with a wraith neighbor.
Notes: The monster roommates have portraits of the Universal versions of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy hanging in their apartment. They also have green slime, like that used on Nickelodeon shows but first introduced on You Can’t Do That On Television.
THE CHRONICLE (TELEVISION SERIES)
SEASON 1 EPISODE 8 “BRING ME THE HEAD OF TUCKER BURNS”
Release Date: August 25, 2001 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The staff investigate a serial murderer who turns out to be a headless biker. Further investigation reveals this to be a fairly regular phenomenon that occurs on a global scale whenever a person is decapitated and the head does not get buried with the body. Examples of other cases are found in their research, including the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Notes: Since the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is in the Horror Universe, and the Chronicle refers to Legend as a real event, the Chronicle must also be in the Horror Universe.
Release Date: 2004 (Contemporary Setting, around Christmas)
Series: Scooby-Doo! (Revival Film Series)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: The Mystery, Inc. gang ends up in Winter Hollow where the town is terrorized by a headless snowman.
Notes: It’s pretty clear that Winter Hollow is Sleepy Hollow and that this is another occurrence of the headless ghost phenomenon. This short is part of the revival film canon, which takes place in a divergent timeline mainly because of the ages of the characters.
Release Date: December 14, 2004 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Scooby-Doo; Casper; A Nightmare on Elm Street
Non-Horror Crosses: A Christmas Carol
The Story: Ever since he was humiliated in public by his girlfriend on Christmas, Allen Karroll has come to hate Christmas. He also hates his mean neighbor Zed Rosecog. On Christmas Eve, Allen gets visited first by Jacob Marley, then by the ghosts of Christmas Present, Past and Future. The problem is they went to the wrong address. They were to visit Mr. Rosecog, and thus show Allen Mr. Rosecog’s present, past and future Christmases. Despite this, Allen still learns a lesson about the Christmas spirit and how his own life has been intertwined with his neighbor’s.
Notes: The film indicates that the original Dickens novel happened, and visits by three ghosts is a regular thing, but that the job is not always done by the same three ghosts. The Jacob Marley is not the same from A Christmas Carol. This one was related to Bob Marley. One of the ghosts references other ghosts he knows, including the Headless Horseman, Scooby-Doo, and Casper. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is already in. Is Scooby dead? Yes, kids. In the Horror Universe, Scooby is dead. In fact, he was eaten in the film Slither. This crossover brings in Casper, the Friendly Ghost, but which version? Though I’m sure the implication is the cartoon version, there’s no solid in-story evidence to verify that. Therefore, my assumption is to consider this a reference to the version from the live action films. The first Casper film had a crossover with Ghostbusters, and thus is already solidly in the Horror Universe. A ghost also makes a reference in which he compares himself to Freddy Krueger. Though that could be a pop culture reference or a reference to a real person, in this instance, since this film has already been demonstrated to fit in the Horror Universe, we should just assume that this is indeed a reference to the Springwood Slasher.
MONTHLY SHONEN SIRIUS “MONSTER PRINCESS” (KODANSHA)
Release Date: July 2005 - April 2013 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Princess Resurrection
Horror Crosses: Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Dracula (Universal); Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Creature From the Black Lagoon; Invisible Man (Universal); Invasion of the Body Snatchers; The Fly; Evil Dead
Non-Horror Crosses: Day of the Triffids; Angry Red Planet; Back to the Future; Star Trek; It Conquered the World
The Story: In Japan, a young man is hit by a car. As he lay there dying, he is resurrected by the princess of the Monster Realm. Not only is he brought back from death, but he becomes nearly immortal, with great power, but must serve the princess as her warrior and protector.
Notes: The series has had many links to existing series, including the ones above. I admit there are probably more that I have missed. The “Monster Realm” is probably what the Watcher’s Council (from Buffy) would refer to as a Hell Dimension.
Release Date: 2007 (Setting is August 2005)
Series: Club Van Helsing
Horror Crosses: Dracula (Bram Stoker); White Zombie; Brother Voodoo; Child’s Play; Tales of the Zombie; Revolt of the Zombies; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; I Walked with a Zombie; Zombies on Broadway; Kolchak the Night Stalker; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Works of Stephen King; Charmed; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Lives of the Mayfair Witches; The Body Snatchers (novel); Carnacki Ghost Finder; The Exorcist (novel); the Thing
Non-Horror Crosses: Too Numerous to List.
The Story: During Hurricane Katrina, Hugo Van Helsing must fight zombies raised by a voodoo priest.
Notes: Hugo Van Helsing comes from the famous vampire hunting family, and his ancestors have met many famous figures of fiction, accounting for the large number of crossovers.
October 2007--SOUTH PARK--"Imaginationland"--The boys discover Imaginationland. This is actually simply a portion of the Looniverse where Anomaly sometimes teleports real beings from the multiverse due to the nature of the Looniverse and it's Tulpa state. Thus, we can consider this a major crossover event. In Imaginationland, the Council of Nine (the true leaders of the land) are:
Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Cabin in the Woods
Horror Crosses: Alien; Half-Life; Evil Dead; Poltergeist; Frankenstein (Universal); Child’s Play; Creature from the Black Lagoon; Corpse Bride; Killer Klowns from Outer Space; Stephen King Universe; Killjoy; Devil’s Rejects; Clownhouse; Drive Thru; Funhouse; Amusement; Circus of Fear; Clown Camp; Demonic Toys; Demons; Night of the Demons; Supernatural; Charmed; Gremlins; Ghoulies; Creeps; Troll; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Frankenstein (novel); Dr. Giggles; The Human Centipede; House on Haunted Hill; The Dead Pit; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Strangers; Underworld; Attack of the 50 Foot Woman; Troll Hunter; Anaconda; Python; Mega Snake; Snakes on a Plane; Resident Evil; Hellraiser; Cannibal Holocaust; Creepshow; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns; Pumpkinhead; Frankenfish; The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; The Mummy (Universal); The Hills Have Eyes; Wrong Turn; Chernobyl Diaries; 28 Days Later; Signal; the Works of Quentin Tarantino; Left 4 Dead; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Re-Animator (film); Siren; The Exorcist; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; Reptilicus; Jurassic Park; Abominable Bigfoot; The Legend of Boggy Creek; Ape Canyon; Curse of Bigfoot; Night of the Bloody Apes; Wendigo; Night Beasts; Night of the Scarecrow; Scarecrows; Husk; Scarecrow Gone Wild; The Scarecrows Walk at Midnight; The Town that Dreaded Sundown; The Craft; Witches of Eastwick; Hocus Pocus; Jack Frost; Hellboy (film); Rumplestiltskin; Leprechaun; Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters; Gingerbread Man; The Vampyre; Dracula (novel); Nosferatu; The Wolf Man; An American Werewolf in London; The Howling; Wolf; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Friday the 13th; Night of the Living Dead; Return of the Living Dead; F.E.A.R.; The Blob; Feast; Horrors of the Wendigo; Frostbiter; Ghost; Bram Stoker’s Dracula (film); The Cyclops; Cyclops Giant; Nightbreed; Leeches!; Attack of the Giant Leeches; Rows of Teeth; The Birds; Killing Birds; Birdemic: Shock and Terror; Silent Hill; Attack of the Killer Lane Gnomes; Alligator; Lake Placid; Them!; Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!; Ants; Empire of the Ants; King Kong; Centipede Horror; The Giant Claw; The Ring; Attack of the Giant Gila Monster; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; Tarantula; Eight Legged Freaks; Jaws; Frogs; Lord of Darkness; House of the Dead; The Grudge; Chopping Mall; BlinkyTM; The Kraken; Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep; Octopus; The Beast; Deep Rising; It Came From Beneath the Sea; Tentacles; Eye of the Beast; Mega Shark; Giant Octopus; Castle Freak; Tokyo Gore Police; Septic; Mutants; Ogre; Blood Pool; Legend of the Ogre; Killing Floor; Little Shop of Horrors; The Breed; Hatchet; Phantasm; See No Evil; Thinner; Monster House; Attila; Dead Snow; Frankenstein’s Army; Manhunt; The Monster in the Closet; Killer Eyes; Demomata; CSP-682; Parasite Eve 2; Dead Space; Night of the Lepus; Creature from the Haunted Sea; Tremors; Hostel; The Collection; The Butcher; Dead Rising; My Bloody Valentine; The Exterminator; Willard; War of the Worlds; Signs; Lollipop Chainsaw; Ghost Ship; Curse of the Pirates; Jolly Roger; Lead Soldiers; Vampire Vikings; The Witch; Blair Witch Project; The Village; The Thing; Vampire Breath; Goosebumps; Angel; King Cobra
Non-Horror Crosses: Harry Potter; Wizard of Oz; Great Expectations; Batman; Labyrinth; Land of the Giants; The Wrath of Paul Bunyan; Dreamscape; Last of the Mohicans; Blood Meridian; Scalps; Savage Sam; Sin City; Kevin Spencer; We Need to Talk About Kevin; Jacob’s Ladder; Doctor Who; Black Swan; Pan’s Labyrinth; Nutcracker; Blade Hunter; The Chronicles of Narnia; Time Bandits; The Princess and the Frog; Pirates of the Caribbean; Futurama; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Pee-Wee’s Playhouse; Red Planet; Terminator; Zathura; Hardware; Robot Wars; Bacterial Contamination; Firefly; Clash of the Titans; Team Fortress; Man from Planet X; Starship Troopers; Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal; Twisted Metal
The Story: A group of teens head out for a weekend in a cabin in the woods, not knowing that they have been chosen as sacrifices to an ancient deity in order to save the world from his wrath.
Notes: This film exposes the secret truth behind modern horror. Behind it all is a secret organization, chosen to sacrifice youth to ancient gods. All of the above named crossovers have been linked in this film, and revealed to be part of this secret conspiracy. Most of the crossovers above come from the monsters and artifacts contained in the facility. While some of the monsters and artifacts are clearly from certain films above, many are based on certain types of horror films, in which case I included the more well-known of these film types. I recommend the well-researched Cabin in the Woods Wiki for a more detailed listing of the monsters and their inspirations. Note that I included in the above crossovers some monsters that only appeared in the official novelization and the official Universal Theme Park attraction tie-in. With this film, I break one of my major rules of crossover connecting. Though some of the crosses are direct crosses, like Evil Dead and Left 4 Dead, most of them are only connected because the films represent the more well-known films of the trope from which a certain monster comes. Normally, I would not count something that is “like something from”, but there is dialogue within the film that makes me break my rule. In one scene, referring to the monsters, security officer Daniel Truman says “They’re like something from a nightmare.” Lin, a head scientist, responds, “No, they’re something nightmares are from.” She goes on to explain that these monsters are the creations of the Ancient Ones, having been around since the beginning, and different cultures have told stories that interpret them in different ways. Thus, in the instance of this film, “like” is enough because of the author’s intent. And thus my love/hate relationship with Joss Whedon, for expanding the Horror Universe dramatically but making me do a lot of work to write this entry. Note that this film ends with the start of an apocalypse, so the end must veer into a divergent timeline. We must presume in the main Horror Universe, the virgin shot the fool. And if you haven’t seen the movie, that last sentence probably seems very bizarre. This film has been referenced as fictional in South Park, The Cinema Snob, Scary Movie 5, and Doc of the Dead. It is also paid homage to in Red Dawn when Chris Hemsworth and his friends once more wind up in a cabin in the woods. The film has also been spoofed in Robot Chicken and Scary Movie 5.
- Aslan the Lion (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Gandalf the Grey (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
- Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz)
- Jesus Christ (The Bible)
- Luke Skywalker (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope) Characters from Star Wars have also appeared to interact with people from Quahog, Rhode Island and Springfield, but Bongo Universe often pulls people randomly through time and space and then returns them with no memory of what happened, so it's uncertain of these people were pulled from Imaginationland or from a galaxy far far away.
- Morpheus (The Matrix)
- Popeye (Popeye)
- Wonder Woman (DC Comics)
- Zeus (Greek Mythology)
- Astro Boy (Astro Boy)
- Baby Mario (Mario)
- Boo Berry
- Br'er Rabbit
- Calvin & Hobbes
- Care Bear (Care Bears)
- Captain Planet
- Cheetara (Thundercats)
- Cinderella (Cinderella)
- Count Chocula
- Crest Toothpaste
- Dorothy and Toto (The Wizard of Oz)
- Franken Berry
- Franklin (Franklin)
- Garuda (Buddhism/Hinduism)
- Gizmo (Gremlins)
- God (The Bible)
- Mad Hatter (Alice's Adventure in Wonderland)
- Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Mayor of Imaginationland
- Mr. Clean
- Mr. Tummnus (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Optimus Prime (Tranformers)
- Orko (He-man)
- Pacman (Pacman)
- Perseus (Greek Mythology)
- Peter Pan
- Puss in Boots (Shrek 2)
- Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- Raggedy Ann and Andy
- Rapunzel
- Rockety Rocket
- Rocky and Bulwinkle (The Rocky and Bulwinkle Show)
- Ronald McDonald (McDonald's Restaurant)
- Santa Claus
- Scarecrow (the Wizard of Oz)
- Silver Surfer (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)
- Smurf
- Smurfette
- Snarf (ThunderCats)
- Strawberry Shortcake (Strawberry Shortcake)
- Super Best Friends
- Super Mario (Mario series)
- Superman
- The Cowardly Lion (The Wizard of Oz)
- The Flash
- The Lollipop King
- The Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz)
- Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)
- Twinkie the Kid (Mascot for Twinkies)
- Voltron (Voltron)
- Wild Thing (Where The Wild Things Are)
- Waldo (Where's Waldo?)
- Yoda (Starwars)
- Akuma/Gouki (Street Fighter II)
- Sagat (Street Fighter)
- Bluto (Popeye)
- Bowser (Mario series)
- Br'er Fox
- Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
- Cards (Alice's Adventure in Wonderland)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
- Darkseid (DC comic)
- Flying Monkeys (The Wizard of Oz)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein)
- Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street)
- Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda)
- Goro (Mortal Kombat)
- Headless Horseman (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
- Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
- ManBearPig
- Orc (The Lord of the Rings)
- Predator (Predator series)
- Pinhead (Hellraiser)
- Sinistar
- The Woodland Critters
- The Minotaur (Greek Mythology)
- Venom (Spider-Man)
- Wario (Mario series)
- The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)
- The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- The Wolfman
- Tripod (war of the worlds)
- Xenomorph (Alien series)
Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Contemporary Setting)
Series: Cabin in the Woods
Horror Crosses: Alien; Half-Life; Evil Dead; Poltergeist; Frankenstein (Universal); Child’s Play; Creature from the Black Lagoon; Corpse Bride; Killer Klowns from Outer Space; Stephen King Universe; Killjoy; Devil’s Rejects; Clownhouse; Drive Thru; Funhouse; Amusement; Circus of Fear; Clown Camp; Demonic Toys; Demons; Night of the Demons; Supernatural; Charmed; Gremlins; Ghoulies; Creeps; Troll; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Frankenstein (novel); Dr. Giggles; The Human Centipede; House on Haunted Hill; The Dead Pit; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Strangers; Underworld; Attack of the 50 Foot Woman; Troll Hunter; Anaconda; Python; Mega Snake; Snakes on a Plane; Resident Evil; Hellraiser; Cannibal Holocaust; Creepshow; Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns; Pumpkinhead; Frankenfish; The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century; The Mummy (Universal); The Hills Have Eyes; Wrong Turn; Chernobyl Diaries; 28 Days Later; Signal; the Works of Quentin Tarantino; Left 4 Dead; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Re-Animator (film); Siren; The Exorcist; The Exorcism of Emily Rose; Reptilicus; Jurassic Park; Abominable Bigfoot; The Legend of Boggy Creek; Ape Canyon; Curse of Bigfoot; Night of the Bloody Apes; Wendigo; Night Beasts; Night of the Scarecrow; Scarecrows; Husk; Scarecrow Gone Wild; The Scarecrows Walk at Midnight; The Town that Dreaded Sundown; The Craft; Witches of Eastwick; Hocus Pocus; Jack Frost; Hellboy (film); Rumplestiltskin; Leprechaun; Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters; Gingerbread Man; The Vampyre; Dracula (novel); Nosferatu; The Wolf Man; An American Werewolf in London; The Howling; Wolf; Texas Chainsaw Massacre; Friday the 13th; Night of the Living Dead; Return of the Living Dead; F.E.A.R.; The Blob; Feast; Horrors of the Wendigo; Frostbiter; Ghost; Bram Stoker’s Dracula (film); The Cyclops; Cyclops Giant; Nightbreed; Leeches!; Attack of the Giant Leeches; Rows of Teeth; The Birds; Killing Birds; Birdemic: Shock and Terror; Silent Hill; Attack of the Killer Lane Gnomes; Alligator; Lake Placid; Them!; Legion of Fire: Killer Ants!; Ants; Empire of the Ants; King Kong; Centipede Horror; The Giant Claw; The Ring; Attack of the Giant Gila Monster; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms; Tarantula; Eight Legged Freaks; Jaws; Frogs; Lord of Darkness; House of the Dead; The Grudge; Chopping Mall; BlinkyTM; The Kraken; Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep; Octopus; The Beast; Deep Rising; It Came From Beneath the Sea; Tentacles; Eye of the Beast; Mega Shark; Giant Octopus; Castle Freak; Tokyo Gore Police; Septic; Mutants; Ogre; Blood Pool; Legend of the Ogre; Killing Floor; Little Shop of Horrors; The Breed; Hatchet; Phantasm; See No Evil; Thinner; Monster House; Attila; Dead Snow; Frankenstein’s Army; Manhunt; The Monster in the Closet; Killer Eyes; Demomata; CSP-682; Parasite Eve 2; Dead Space; Night of the Lepus; Creature from the Haunted Sea; Tremors; Hostel; The Collection; The Butcher; Dead Rising; My Bloody Valentine; The Exterminator; Willard; War of the Worlds; Signs; Lollipop Chainsaw; Ghost Ship; Curse of the Pirates; Jolly Roger; Lead Soldiers; Vampire Vikings; The Witch; Blair Witch Project; The Village; The Thing; Vampire Breath; Goosebumps; Angel; King Cobra
Non-Horror Crosses: Harry Potter; Wizard of Oz; Great Expectations; Batman; Labyrinth; Land of the Giants; The Wrath of Paul Bunyan; Dreamscape; Last of the Mohicans; Blood Meridian; Scalps; Savage Sam; Sin City; Kevin Spencer; We Need to Talk About Kevin; Jacob’s Ladder; Doctor Who; Black Swan; Pan’s Labyrinth; Nutcracker; Blade Hunter; The Chronicles of Narnia; Time Bandits; The Princess and the Frog; Pirates of the Caribbean; Futurama; The Incredible Shrinking Man; Pee-Wee’s Playhouse; Red Planet; Terminator; Zathura; Hardware; Robot Wars; Bacterial Contamination; Firefly; Clash of the Titans; Team Fortress; Man from Planet X; Starship Troopers; Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal; Twisted Metal
The Story: A group of teens head out for a weekend in a cabin in the woods, not knowing that they have been chosen as sacrifices to an ancient deity in order to save the world from his wrath.
Notes: This film exposes the secret truth behind modern horror. Behind it all is a secret organization, chosen to sacrifice youth to ancient gods. All of the above named crossovers have been linked in this film, and revealed to be part of this secret conspiracy. Most of the crossovers above come from the monsters and artifacts contained in the facility. While some of the monsters and artifacts are clearly from certain films above, many are based on certain types of horror films, in which case I included the more well-known of these film types. I recommend the well-researched Cabin in the Woods Wiki for a more detailed listing of the monsters and their inspirations. Note that I included in the above crossovers some monsters that only appeared in the official novelization and the official Universal Theme Park attraction tie-in. With this film, I break one of my major rules of crossover connecting. Though some of the crosses are direct crosses, like Evil Dead and Left 4 Dead, most of them are only connected because the films represent the more well-known films of the trope from which a certain monster comes. Normally, I would not count something that is “like something from”, but there is dialogue within the film that makes me break my rule. In one scene, referring to the monsters, security officer Daniel Truman says “They’re like something from a nightmare.” Lin, a head scientist, responds, “No, they’re something nightmares are from.” She goes on to explain that these monsters are the creations of the Ancient Ones, having been around since the beginning, and different cultures have told stories that interpret them in different ways. Thus, in the instance of this film, “like” is enough because of the author’s intent. And thus my love/hate relationship with Joss Whedon, for expanding the Horror Universe dramatically but making me do a lot of work to write this entry. Note that this film ends with the start of an apocalypse, so the end must veer into a divergent timeline. We must presume in the main Horror Universe, the virgin shot the fool. And if you haven’t seen the movie, that last sentence probably seems very bizarre. This film has been referenced as fictional in South Park, The Cinema Snob, Scary Movie 5, and Doc of the Dead. It is also paid homage to in Red Dawn when Chris Hemsworth and his friends once more wind up in a cabin in the woods. The film has also been spoofed in Robot Chicken and Scary Movie 5.
Release Date: March - June 2013 (See notes for setting)
Series: Deadpool
Horror Crosses: Frankenstein (Mary Shelley); Dracula (Bram Stoker); Legend of Sleepy Hollow; The Island of Doctor Moreau; The Raven; The Picture of Dorian Gray
Non-Horror Crosses: Sherlock Holmes; Jungle Book; Tarzan; Ka-Zar; LIttle Mermaid; Sub-Mariner; The Time Machine; Beowulf; The Leatherstocking Tales; Mulan; Three Musketeers; Don Quixote; Moby Dick; Pinocchio; Tom Sawyer; Little Women; A Christmas Carol; Gulliver’s Travels; Treasure Island; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Macbeth; The Metamorphosis
The Story: In an alternate reality, Deadpool realizes he is fictional, and decides to destroy everyone in every reality until he reaches his “creators” in the real world.
Notes: This story involves characters from all of the above listed crosses. However, they all exist in alternate universes in various time periods. Likely none of these exist in the main Horror Universe timeline, but are all probably part of the larger Horror Multiverse.
SUPERNATURAL (TELEVISION SERIES)
SEASON 8 EPISODE 22 “CLIP SHOW”
Release Date: May 8, 2013 (Contemporary Setting)
Horror Crosses: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Story: Crowley is killing all the people previously saved by Dean and Sam.
Notes: It’s mentioned that Ichabod Crane was possessed by a demon. Not likely that this was during the events of Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
2013 - 2017 -- Sleepy Hollow -- An American Revolution solider, Ichabod Crane, finds himself in the 21st century, teamed with the local police, to battle a headless menace. This Ichabod and Katrina are not the same from the original story, but this show is in the TVCU due to its crossover with Bones, which has also had a minor crossover with Angel. There are, also, some superficially loose similarities to the film Fallen and the series Supernatural. Just like in the film Fallen, demons can move from person to person by touch in the show Sleepy Hollow. Just like in Supernatural, salt is used as a barrier that demons cannot cross in Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow has also had a crossover with Frankenstein.
2014--
NOV 5-7 - HYSTERIA OF THE WORLD, PART ONE: THE BATTLE OF CROWN AND SHIELD HALL [ANTILOGY]- Ivan and the Salem Batman encounter three Fairy Dragon Pirates (or were they dragon pirate faeries?) and after a brief fight (during which Ivan becomes Kavik, and momentarily turns against his bat-garbed companion), the fae reveal that the Salem Witches' Institute was recently attacked by Death-Eaters led by a sorcerer called Dark Mark, who gained access to the school using a spell cast on Samhain the week before. Many of the magical creatures dwelling in the environment around the school, including the local faerie population, was fleeing to the mortal world. Ivan calls in some fellow Ghostbusters to help contain the damage and they encounter several dark wizards seeking to break the glamours separating the school from the real world. Many of the school's staff and students also join the battle, as well as the gypsy witch Velaska Pskowski, Ivan's sorcerous ally Raven Whateley (and her metamorphic companion Craig), and members of the Addams Family, which leads to the a final confrontation in the school's Crown & Shield Hall where the dark witches and wizards (including the Sanderson Witches, recently resurrected) are ultimately defeated (though Raven is left wheelchair-bound as a result). Unfortunately the Veil concealing the school remains undone, and the damage affects similar partitions hiding the paranormal world from the normal world (and vice versa).
Salem's Batman is part of the Batman legacy of vigilante heroes; though Batman first appeared in DETECTIVE COMICS #27 (1939) the concept of Batman officially taking the brand world wide first showed up in print in BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 (2010). The Salem Witches' Institute is mentioned in HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (2000) though very few details of the school are suggested in that work and is here conflated with the Magic School seen in the CHARMED television series and spin-offs, beginning with the season 6 episode "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell" (2004). Death-Eaters are first named in HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (1999). The Ghostbusters are based on the company from the 1984 film GHOSTBUSTERS and its multimedia spin-offs. Velaska Pskowski is an original character created by Karen June. Raven Whateley is an original character but is related to Wilbur Whateley from H P Lovecraft's THE DUNWICH HORROR (1929) and is inspired by the Teen Titans character Raven from DC COMICS PRESENTS #26 (1980), as is her companion Craig, who is based on the character Garfield Logan, aka Beast Boy, aka Changeling, from DOOM PATROL #99 (1965)/ The Addams Family members depicted (Gomez, Morticia, and Wednesday) originated in THE NEW YORKER in 1938, but their appearances here are based on the designs used in the 1964-1966 television series THE ADDAMS FAMILY. Crown & Shield Hall is an establishment in Salem based on the world of Harry Potter and named for the Crowninshield family prominent throughout the Massachusetts North Shore (and Lovecraft's fictional version of it). The Sanderson Sisters (Winifred, Sarah, and Mary) are from the 1993 film HOCUS POCUS, which is set in Salem MA.2020--OCT - GATECRASHERS [ANTILOGY]
Expecting to find Halloween partiers not respecting pandemic restrictions, he instead finds Larry Talbot and other werewolves, who are part of an ancient society called the Benandanti. Larry was on his way to recruit more members from the population of Wolf Hallow, and wanted to see if Ivan would join them on their mission to fight evil vampires and witches of the Malandanti. Ivan is a bit unsure how that would be different from the work he already does with various other organizations, but Larry reveals that a celestial alignment is coming up in which supernatural beings like themselves will either try to bring an Old One through a portal, or else keep the portal from being used.
Ivan remembers having a similar conversation with Larry back in 2012, and comments on the coincidence of meeting the elder werewolf at traditionally haunted locations (last time it was Sleepy Hollow), but Larry tells him that this is in accordance with prophesy, and the fact that Ivan meets him in supernatural hot-spots suggests he is to have an important role to play. Ivan suggests that Larry has been too much faith in the words of gypsy fortune tellers, but also recalls a prediction he was told 9 years earlier. Looking into these "Gatecrashers" and "Gatekeepers", Ivan learns that the Deep Ones have always fought on the side of the Old Ones, so he approaches Caleb Marsh and petitions him to help prevent the extradimensional incursion. Caleb agrees to speak to his people, but makes no promises. Ivan also encounters a number of witches and vampires in Salem that day, though they will not share their own allegiances regarding the event, and on Larry's warning, Ivan honors the truce that prevents the Gatecrashers and Gatekeepers from fighting before the big night. He does learn that many of the truly demonic witches and vampires are more likely to side with the Openers, but there are plenty that wish to defend life on Earth against the greater evil.
Mrs. Dubois' Thrift Shop is from the 2020 movie HUBIE HALLOWEEN, which is connected to other Happy Madison films, but as Hubie Halloween is set in Salem MA during October 2020 with no Pandemic, it is an AU to the TVCU timeline (the insistence on a Halloween Full Moon means it has to be set in 2020). Benandanti ("Good Walkers") and Malandanti ("Bad Walkers") are traditions dating back to 16th Century Italy but claim connections to earlier cultures such as ancient Rome, and were the focus of 1966 book THE NIGHT BATTLES: WITCHCRAFT AND AGRARIAN CULTS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.Larry Talbot is the name of several fictional werewolves, the first appearing in the 1941 film THE WOLF MAN. "Old Ones" is a generic term for otherworldly entities of sufficient power which may likely be considered by humans to be gods or demons. Salem and Sleepy Hollow are real world locations associated with Halloween hauntings in fiction and real life. Deep Ones are from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The truce preventing "Openers" and "Closers" from fighting is a reference to A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER (1993) by Roger Zelazny. The Deep Ones fought Larry Talbot in Neil Gaiman's ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN, first published in 1998.Alternate Realities:
Toobworld -- Here's the Inner Toob take on Sleepy Hollow.
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