Tales from the Crypt #35
In "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!", a man’s desperate scheme to marry a wealthy woman through voodoo dolls spirals into something far darker when he attempts to replace her with a younger bride. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with haunting art by Jack Kamen and bold inks by the same, this chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #35 (1953) unfolds under the eerie glow of the moon, where dolls hold more than just secrets—they hold vengeance. The cover, a masterful nightmare by Jack Davis, captures the dread before the first page even turns.
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A man has voodoo dolls made as wedding cake figures in order to get a wealthy woman to marry him. He meets a younger woman, and so to remarry, places his wife's doll under glass so that she suffocates from lack of air. He keeps both dolls until the second wedding as he plans to use them on the cake, but the wife figurine is rotting since it now resembles the woman lying in the grave. The man throws it away, and settles into bed with his new bride, but it gets out of the trash and hauls itself up to the shelf where his doll is kept to push it off, breaking it into a thousand piece, while in the bedroom the new bride screams in terror.
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