Tales from the Crypt #4
In "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!", a man’s obsession with control takes a macabre turn when he uses voodoo dolls as wedding cake figures to manipulate fate. Written by Al Feldstein and illustrated by Jack Kamen, this chilling tale unfolds with a haunting twist as the line between ritual and reality begins to blur. The cover, a striking piece by Jack Davis, captures the story’s eerie tension in bold, unsettling detail.
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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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