Four pounds of apples, cored and cut up, but not peeled, or green gooseberries, or green peaches and apples, mixed, one wine bottleful of vinegar, one pound of coarse sugar.

And overcome us like a summer's cloud.

a river of blood

Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.