This will finish up the last of Weird Vol. 4 No. 3, June 1970. Our first Story, "Torture Garden," is a bloodied up reprint of the story, which first appeared in Voodoo #13, 1954. It's a neat, little tale; clearly based on the 1924 short story classic, "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connell (later made into a great film staring Joel McCrea and Fay Wray). About this hunting retreat, the index tells us: "Listen to the horrifying screams of dying men caught in the eerie rotting mass of oozing vegetation that seemed to laugh. Ugh!"
Our second tale, "The Living Dead," is a Walter Casadei redraw of "The Lost Souls," which was originally published in Chamber of Chills #24, 1951. This sort of bleak, atmospheric story was a particular strength of Casadei.
Don't stray too far from the Bloody Pulp. Next, we open up a new issue from my Eerie Publication vaults!
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4 comments:
I loved both stories, especially Torture Garden. No one uses the word "heathen" anymore. I'd like to see it make a comeback.
I use the word “heathen” constantly and encourage its use at every opportunity.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for taking your time to scan and post all of these. I have been visiting for some time now and wanted you to know how grateful I am that you take the time to put these stories online. They made quite an impact on me when I was a youngster. For example, the splash page for Chic Stone's "Voodoo Terror" is burned forever into my mind =)
Kendall: My pleasure! Thanks for commenting.
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