[ WP ] Select a Christmas Carol of your choice and write a horror story based off of the words/theme of the song .

The hall was long and ancient, a dusty place, stinking of fllorwax and decay. 
 
 
 
 Here and there, the Holly trees that surrounded the manor had smashed the windows in a fecund slow motion assault, allowing streamers of ivy to grow in and grip the walls with dark vitality. 
 
 
 
 A hoarse bark of laugher erupted from the figures throat, it was now the time, it had come. 
 
 
 
 In deference to the wind, and drifts of snow that piled in the angles of the hall, the figure pulled on the Jesters Motley jacket; a thing of coloured rags and tinkling bells. 
 
 
 
 A soft and ancient melody, of high mountains, Winter ’ s death and fires in the dark, issued from cracked lips. 
 
 
 
 A hand thrust into the open grate, a burning brand was raised in exultation to head height, and brought down to smash into the pile of broken and discarded instruments at the Jesters feet. 
 
 
 They would sing to his tune soon, of gold, of vitality, of the things that they held most precious. This would be his time, this new time, and he would make their children sing the loudest. 
 
 
 They would all sing, every man, woman and child. And slowly, with a tinkling, shambling gait the Jester strode out into the Winter night, heading for the lights of the village. 
 
 
 And it could be heard on the wind… a whisper, a muffled sighing… as sharp as babies cry, turning from hunger to pain 
 
 
 
 “ Fa la la la la…la la la… la. 

