A to Z Blogging Challenge: E is for Eddie

Eddie is a fixture in the Netherworld

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

E is for Eddie

by

Spectra Ghostseeker

This is cross-posted from our story blog, Undead in the Netherworld.

Eddie is the (in)famous mascot for the famous British heavy metal band, Iron Maiden.

Right, you got us. Eddie is not a Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos Monster. But he is one of our monsters. Well, he's actually Iron Maiden's monster. But we figure they wouldn't mind if we borrow him. 

We've created our own mythology about Eddie.

Edward Theodore Head was born around 666 years ago in London, England. He says that he don't bloody well remember exactly when he was birthed, and we aren't going to press him for information. It was sometime around June 6, 1346, during a plague outbreak.

Eddie was something like 49 years old when he died, also during a plague outbreak. But because he was a practitioner of the Dark Arts, he quickly came back from beyond the chuffin' grave. The effects of plague and brain rot made him bleedin' well insane, and he spent a lot of years chopping people up and probably eating their brains. 

Some have speculated that Eddie was Jack the Ripper, but he will neither confirm nor deny this.

Eddie stumbled into a pub one night when an early incarnation of Iron Maiden was playing. He demanded asked to be in the band. How could they refuse? So now Eddie had a steady gig, and audiences fainted at the sight of loved him. 

All this love made Eddie a little bit less homicidal. As well as his gig with Iron Maiden, he is now a DJ at KHEL 666 Monday-Friday on the 7 PM to 11 PM time slot. Eddie is happily married to a fellow zombie, The Undead Sports Fan, who is a cousin of UNDEAD media's Sportin' Reportin' editor Cuzzin Hildy-Bob. They have three sons: Eddie-Bob, Itsy Lyve, and Allan.

Eddie says that it's okay to make this a cross-post. He thinks we're bloody well naff to have done this challenge bit on six blogs. We're inclined to agree with him. Of course, no-one with an iota of common sense would ever be inclined to disagree with Eddie.

~Spectra~

Cross posted to:

KHEL 666

Undead in the Netherworld

Couldn't leave off this post without some Iron Maiden. Believe me, Eddie wouldn't let us get away with that kind of fuckery.