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[Presenter:]

Bid welcome all, my treasured guests

To that which I present

Six chapters through, two volumes deep

Upon which to obsess

Six tales of darkness, rage and fear

Six horrors of the mind

An unforgiving madness awaits

Ambivalence, the trusting and the blind

Allow me to introduce a collection of borrowed souls

And the stray arcane

From darkest past and yet to pass

Both villain and protagonist are one and the same

Bid venture, join this company

Descend on chaos fair

Through entry pass into descent

And into darkest flair

Our scene arrives at a time and place

Undisclosed, undefined

Amid winter's full-moon tapestry

'Cross moor and mist alike

Through halls enshrined in history

Walls burdened with wicked tales

In which abuse, torment and dark secrets meet

Softly to share their tears

In shadowed corners

Meet fair Naomi

Skin as pale as the purest moonlight

Filtered softly through curtains of fine lace

Hair the colour of darkest Ebony

Eyes the depth of human suffering

Reflecting all...