Vault of Horror #14
"Voodoo Vengeance!" is a chilling tale from Vault of Horror #14 (1950), a standout entry in EC Comics’ legendary horror lineup. Written by Henry Kuttner and Gardner Fox and brought to life with stark, haunting art by Graham Ingels, the story follows Abner, a townsman obsessed with the past, as he ventures into the graveyard’s secrets—only to awaken a dread he never expected. Cover by Johnny Craig captures the story’s creeping menace, making this a must-have for fans of classic EC horror.
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Abner was the local historian who knew everything there was to know about everyone else in town...dead or alive. One night he visited the graveyard to dig up a corpse for the jewels a woman had been buried in, and as he opened the coffin, and saw the jewels, he also saw a rat....an animal he detested more than any other. He re-inters the coffin after getting the jewels and scurries away to his house, where he discovers, with more research, that some Revolutionary War tunnels exist under the graveyard from a cellar. So he decides to use them to get to the coffins of certain people from under the ground, where he cannot be seen as easily. Unfortunately, as he makes his way along in those tunnels, hundreds of rats scurry about, and follow him to a grave where he finds the moneybelt of Marcus Lee. Coming back the next evening, he discoverss the belt gone.....and figures the rats must have carried it off. That's too much for Abner....he goes back home and builds a wire barrier to keep the rats away from the digging he is doing. And while digging one evening, the rats find a way to escape his wire trap and gnaw the timbers he has erected to keep the ceiling from collapsing. Suddenly, Abner finds that the tunnel is caving in on him.....and he has left his shovel behind.....and slowly he suffocates to death!
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