Appetite Comes with the Eating1. The real horror of Octoberis the winter, the rising darkness.It's said they caught him weeping,heard him babbling about the steam in the snow,the brown mass that had been a personhis little girl, dead from the cold.He ate his wife and daughters.And when the villagers came for him,he let them take himto the treein the center of the square, where he hung,discolored with frostbite and gangrene.They called him Wendigo,gave him to the spirit of the Dying Season,and hoped that he would rest.2. My ancestors had a word for his kindStrigoi.They would have cut out his heartto stop him from feeding.