Voodoo #17
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free# Voodoo #17 (1954) This anthology issue features the story "Ape's Laughter," in which an ape-like creature recounts his torturous captivity by humans at a research foundation. Kept in an iron cage and subjected to humiliation while learning human language and behavior, the ape eventually escapes and seeks revenge on those who imprisoned him. The creature orchestrates an elaborate plan to murder his captors, using cunning and disguise to lure them to their deaths before being apprehended by police.
In "Forever Dead," Dr. Judas is offered a chance to bring his wife Dolores back from the grave for just $1,000—too good to be true, but the price of resurrection may be far heavier than he imagined. When she returns, the living are not the only ones who feel the chill of what’s been awakened.
Stranded in the Irish bogs after a broken axle, Captain Anthony Denter and his new bride Pamela find themselves pursued by the restless dead—ancient bog creatures seeking vengeance for a massacre ordered by Denter's own ancestor generations ago. As the creatures close in from the mist and mire, the captain realizes the sins of his family's past have come due in the most horrific way imaginable.
Timbo, a massive and intelligent ape, recounts his vengeful odyssey—from witnessing his mother's murder at human hands to being captured and brought to the United States, where he's studied and displayed by a couple named Alice and Tom. Forced to learn human ways while harboring murderous rage, Timbo plots a cold, calculated revenge that transforms his captors' own weaknesses against them. As the truth unfolds, this tale explores the dark consequences of treating a thinking being as nothing more than a curiosity.
Sam Willows survives a deadly attack by a skilled thug in Bombay and forces his assailant Hassan to teach him the lethal art of Thugee—the ancient practice of murder by silk handkerchief. Now a master of the technique himself, Willows returns to New York bent on revenge against his ex-wife Debra and the man she married, Ralph, only to discover that fate—and perhaps something far more sinister—has other plans waiting for him.
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Reprinted in Strange #3 (1957), Strange Journey #2 (1957), Weird #10 (1966), Weird #2 (1967), Tales from the Crypt #10 (1968), Tales from the Tomb #1 (1970), Horror Tales #2 (1970), Tales of Voodoo #4 (1970), Horror Tales #1 (1971), Tales of Voodoo #3 (1971), Tales from the Tomb #5 (1972), Satan's Corpse #[nn] (1978), Spirits from the Unknown #1 (1978), Forever Dead #[nn] (1982), Roy Thomas Presents Classic Phantom Lady Softee #3 (2013), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #22 (2017)
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