My Dearest Amy-Lou,
Please find enclosed the second chapter in the hair-raising adventure of Emmy-Pooh and the Things from Uranus.
I must tell you that it is a very difficult process to send post over such a vast distance and from such a desolate location as Transylvania. I hope that my letters reach you in good condition. There is only one post office here and it is open for only a few hours per day, two days a week and never after dark.
I am in Transylvania pursuing my lifelong search for Vampires. I have seen many strange sights, heard many bizarre sounds and had two very close shaves since I arrived here in 1999 (the barbers is open very infrequently too).
Only the other day as I walked in the red glow of the setting sun I thought I saw on the horizon a swarm of bats twisting and screeching in such a frenzy I feared they were Count Dracula himself back from the grave and intent on revenge. But as I drew closer I saw it was merely my imagination that had conjured such imagery and that the bats were little more than dark leaves blowing in the late evening wind.
Still, a dark beast, a wolf no less, is often to be seen wherever I travel in this cold and desolate land, shadowing my every move. Whether he be simply a fortune hunter out to feast on my flesh or a creature of the darkness with more sinister plans I cannot tell. Both possibilities fill me with dread and I rarely venture outside after four o’clock anymore, as the days grow shorter and the night time now rules the wilderness.
My search continues, and perhaps one day I shall put down in words the full story of the horrors I have seen. Until then, I continue, as you so wish, with the less horrific, but equally astonishing tale of our young friend Emmy-Pooh and her faithful companion Pooh-Bird.
Yours Truly,
Bilious Woods
("Emmy-Pooh And The Things From Uranus" is available from Puffing Books)
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