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The Icy Phantom of New Orleans

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A stream of eager tourists fills the city. The scenic old French quarter has been coated in filmy white webbings and wisps of straw. Either the city is preparing for a party, or the spiders have been hard at work. A one eyed pumpkin winks at Sasha as she hurries through the crowd and bumps into a large and toothless man. He leers down at her and groans, the green skin on his neck bulging out strangely, as he offers a hand to help her up. Sasha takes his hand gingerly, feeling the human warmth of his touch.

The streets are full of costumed tourists who have started to celebrate a little early. Sasha adjusts her long, flowing black dress. Later tonight she will be dancing her heart out at the vampire’s ball, but for now, she is content to tour the city, and considering the occasion, she decides to start at the old cemetery.

In the heart of New Orleans lies the crypt filled graveyards called, ‘the City of the Dead.’ Stone pillars rear up menacingly against the dusky sky. In bright daylight it was an eerie and impressive place, but now, as night falls it begins to seem like the stuff of horror tales.

The guide turns to Sasha and with deadly seriousness he tells her that they have to leave. The specters will grow restless in their graves and rise out of their stony tombs to haunt the living. The man pauses at a chalky tomb, the epitaph reads, “Here lays a woman who froze to death to prove her love.” Legend claims that a poor young woman had fallen in love with a rich and well bred man.

They soon became involved but the noble man thought she was beneath him so he refused to marry her. The poor girl vowed to prove that she was not beneath him and that she was worthy of his love.