Voodoo #8
# Voodoo #8 This issue contains at least two stories. "Ghostly Guillotine" follows a man haunted by a mechanical toy and a small guillotine that he cannot get out of his mind, leading to supernatural consequences when a flower pot nearly kills him and a tiny man begins appearing around his house. A second story involves Cedric, Dorinda, and Grune in a supernatural romance, where Cedric sings divinely but is a court fool, and Grune—a hideous creature—magically becomes human to win Dorinda's heart; their happiness is threatened when a wealthy man named Thornton Moorsby manipulates events to his advantage, ultimately resulting in ghostly intervention and Moorsby's demise in a haunted countryside setting.
Molly Kelly's hunger for quick cash pulls her into a botched robbery that leaves a bank guard dead—and lands her accomplice Joe in the gas chamber. But Molly has one desperate plan: she springs Joe's body from the morgue and uses dark magic to drag him back from the grave, hoping he'll reveal where he buried the stolen loot. What she doesn't count on is that a man who's already died once might not be quite so easy to control the second time around.
When Ned Chambers and his young son Tommy encounter a mysterious street peddler and accept a peculiar mechanical toy, what begins as a father's skepticism transforms into creeping dread as the "little man" seems to develop a sinister will of its own. As accidents and tragedies mount around the family, Ned becomes convinced the toy is far more than clockwork and tin—but convincing anyone else of the danger may prove impossible. In "Satan's Plaything," writer and artist bring a 1953 vision of possessed objects and occult revenge to vivid, unsettling life.
In this tragic tale of mistaken identity, the handsome troubadour Cedric schemes to win the blind maiden Dorinda by impersonating her beloved husband Grune, the castle fool—but his deception sets in motion a chain of betrayal and violence that neither man fully understands. When Grune discovers someone in his clothes with his wife, jealous rage consumes him, leading to devastating consequences that only become clear too late. By the time the truth emerges from beyond the grave, the damage wrought by Cedric's cruel ambition has already torn apart the very love he tried to steal.
A young man returns from New Zealand to claim his ancestral castle and inheritance, but his uncle has darker plans—he's counting on the centuries-old curse of Moorsby Castle to do his murderous work for him. When supernatural forces intervene, the vengeful ghost of Giles the Executioner emerges to settle scores of his own, and both men find themselves trapped in a nightmare where the past's bloodlust demands a reckoning.
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Reprinted in Strange Journey #2 (1957), Weird #4 (1967), Horror Tales #7 (1969), Tales of Voodoo #3 (1969), Weird #4 (1970), Witches Tales #4 (1970), Tales from the Tomb #6 (1970), Horror Tales #2 (1972), Weird #4 (1972), Horror Tales #2 (1974), Witches Tales #3 (1974), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #12 (2015), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #17 (2016)
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