Shandon Loring

“with good appetites and a cheerful mind let us all fall to eatin'.”
― William H.H. Murray, Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

“Through the voiceless darkness a few feathery prophecies of coming snow were settling lazily downward.”
― William H.H. Murray, Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

“When food is well prepared it delights the eye, it intoxicates the nose, it pleases the tongue, it stimulates the appetite, and prolongs the healthy craving which it finally satisfies, even as the song of the mother charms the child which it gradually composes for slumber.”
― William H.H. Murray, Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks

“all those upon whom it was bestowed, inevitably found that there was a curse upon it, for they were all either led to the scaffold, or sunk to the lowest and the most abject misery.”
― John William Polidori, The Vampyre