Merry Christmas Eve…

It’s Christmas Eve, so we’re taking a quick break in our current story to bring you something different.

In the United Kingdom there is a tradition of telling a ghost or creepy story at this time of the year.

And since according to Ancestry.com based on my DNA sample, I am 49% Irish, plus another 22 % English, I feel it only right to continue this tradition.

So, we’re bringing you the audio version of “The Snowman”, complete with imagery, providing a picture book experience, much like I did last year with my unabridged presentation of Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”.

As many of you will remember, “The Snowman” was written by my wife/co-author Helen for our “The Vampyre Blogs – One Day at a Time” anthology. It was inspired by hearing the song “Frosty the Snowman” one too many times, before deciding to put a bit of a strange unearthly (or Para-Earth-ly) twist on the story…

So without further ado, here is this year’s Christmas story offering…

No doubt, you might be wondering about the opening stating the presentation came from the Library of the Obscure. For those wondering about that, you’ll be seeing and learning more about the library starting next month, so stay tuned.

In the meantime, have a blessed and safe Christmas and hopefully a very wonderful New Year.

Love,

Allan and Helen

A Little Side-note About Inspiration…

Sorry, still working on the next post which will be told from Marisa’s point of view. 

In the meantime, I wanted to share a little something about where I sometimes find inspiration for a story. A few of you may have noticed I’ve done more than one story involving wolves, even foxes, and how they can wind up interacting with people. Well, I found this video on YouTube about 9-10 years ago, and it had a huge impact on me. I was so enthralled with the story it tells, plus I’ve met people who have worked and studied wolves over the years that I found this tale quite believable. It has also inspired another story, which I later learned can actually happen in real life, about survival in the harshest times between predators and prey. But that will be a tale for next Christmas, or the next Vampyre Blogs Anthology “Two for the Road”, which hopefully will be released next year.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy today’s offering, and I’ll do my best to get Marisa’s ready in time for next weekend.

Until then, stay safe and enjoy the holiday season my friends.

– Allan

Music and Video Credits:Song: The Mountains Will Remember Us

Artist: Medwyn Goodall

Album: Visions

Licensed to YouTube by:

The Orchard Music (on behalf of New World Music Ltd.); BMI – Broadcast Music Inc., UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA – UBEM, ASCAP, LatinAutorPerf, and 1 Music Rights Societies
YouTube Channel I found this on: 

Arkuss: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSsrwq5gIrcvPHBxB1jNWYg