The The Decons. Greetings sleepless listeners and welcome to sleepless decomitions, volume 16.

I'm your host, David Cummings.

When it comes to Decompositions, that is the act of decomposing, it's hard not to think of one of the world's oldest and most

spoken of horror monsters, the Vampir.

For millennia, cultures that go back to the dawn of human history have told tales about

undead creatures which attack and feast on the essence of the living.

The legends of vampires have changed over the years.

In modern times, they're often depicted as suave and sexy gentlemen pale yet alluring,

ready to sweep a virgin woman off her feet as they seduce her to open up to them,

allowing them to slip inside of her with their gleaming hard fangs. Thangs.

Whoo, is it getting hot in here?

But the legend of the lusty vampire wasn't always the way they were depicted.

In early descriptions of the monsters, they wore shrouds over their bloated and ruddy bodies.

This fits more closely with the idea of a vampire being dead and their body going through the stages of, yes, you guessed it, decomposition.

And so on this volume of sleepless compositions, we have three tales which visit the legend of those

creatures who use their wiles and their teeth to do more than merely seduce.

You can count on these stories being rather biting.

So dear friends, join us and brace yourself for these sleepless decompositions.

In our first tale, we travel way up north to an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean known as Sfaldbard, Norway.

A man is trapped in a cabin, but it's not just the wintery weather confining him to this space.

As we'll learn in this tale, shared with us by author Brian Lavell, there is something outside

his door scratching, hoping to be let in and the man will do anything to prevent that happening

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