SOURCES: "The Yuki-Onna" (Translated by Clay)
"The Glamour of the Snows" (1912) by Algernon Blackwood
"The Drifting Snow" by Stephen Grendon (August Derleth)(Weird Tales, February 1939)

DESCRIPTION: “...She wore grey clothes of some kind, though not the customary long gloves or sweater, for indeed her hands were bare...he wondered...at their dry and icy coldness...The girl, slim and seductive...The gleam of eyes he caught, but all the rest seemed white and snowy...She kissed him softly on the lips, the eyes, all over his face...Her wintry kisses bore him into sleep.” (“The Glamour of the Snow” by Algernon Blackwood)

NOTES: The name Yuki-onna translates to "Mountain Snow Woman". It is not surprising that snow woman spirits should exixt in North America because of the more frequent snow.

HISTORY: Spirits who live in the snow go back to Japanese folklore. Blackwood's is form of an elemental, while Derleth's is without doubt a vampire.

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