The story you're about to enjoy is a factual tale.

Read to you from a fictional location.

We believe.

Madam, a gentleman is here to see you.

What now?

A gentleman, the card reads, Demon Lover.

I don't have a demon lover.

Well not at the moment anyway. Oh sorry the candlelight. Dave Glover he's here for a

private reading. Private reading what lunatic agreed to that?

You did, madam.

Oh, fine.

Send in Mr. Lover.

Gulliver, madam.

We'll see. Welcome kind, sir, and dear guests, to the midnight library. I'm your humble and harmless

host, Miranda Merrick.

It is my great pleasure tonight to shed some much needed light on the true nature of the

time-worn phrase, Christmas spirit.

If you travel in the right circles nowadays

and are brave enough to boldly step outside

the socially sanitized norm,

you will most assuredly gain the knowledge of a little-known

movement to return to a time when the celebration of Yule Tide in the past was much more mysterious and unpredictable.

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