Chilling Tales #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Ancient Mariner," a son is cast into a snake pit by his parents, only to survive and stumble upon a hidden underground cult of snake people who believe they are the descendants of Eden’s serpent. Drawn by Bob Baer, the story unfolds with eerie dread as the young man grapples with the terrifying revelation of a secret society plotting to overthrow the surface world. Cover by Matt Fox captures the tale’s unsettling tone, a striking 10-cent comic from 1953.
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An elderly mother and father throw their adult son into a snake pit. He's bitten numerous times. He then explores the underground caverns and encounters a hidden cult of snake people descended from the original snake from the Garden of Eden. They plan on rising up to destroy the surface world. The son then wakes up in a hospital and finds out that the reason his parents threw him into the snake pit was so the snake venom would cure him of his insanity.
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