Sleepy Hollow: The Witches of the Western Wood #1

IDW Dark's Sleepy Hollow: The Witches of the Western Wood #1 opens this mature-readers series with a cover by Luana Vecchio that immediately sets an eerie, enchanting tone — a silver-haired woman seated within a circle of dripping candles clutches an ancient tome while a great black raven lands at her side, and looming out of the moonlit darkness behind her rides the Headless Horseman, flaming jack-o'-lantern raised aloft on his rearing black steed. The imagery beautifully bridges folklore dread with something almost elegantly witchy, promising that writer Delilah S. Dawson and artist Jose Jaro have something genuinely atmospheric in store. If gothic horror steeped in the legend of Sleepy Hollow is your thing, this first issue looks like exactly the right place to start.