Wally Wood: Eerie Tales of Crime and Horror #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis fifth volume in Vanguard's Woodwork series collects Wally Wood's crime and horror stories from the 1950s, showcasing his masterful blend of gritty noir and macabre EC-style artwork. Featuring tales originally published in titles like Shock SuspenStories and Crime SuspenStories, the book highlights Wood's atmospheric linework and narrative punch across a range of eerie, suspenseful short pieces.
"Devil in Petticoats" delivers a chilling, pulpy tale from Jack Kirby’s visionary mind, illustrated with bold, dynamic art by Kirby and Wally Wood’s distinctive inks. Set on a remote Pacific island, the story follows a tribal chief who uncovers a hidden alien threat beneath a volcano—leading him to make a desperate, world-altering decision. The cover, a striking piece by Wally Wood, captures the tale’s eerie, otherworldly tension.
In the heart of the untamed jungle, two royal sisters—once rulers of Ballah—now flee for their lives after their city falls to the tyrant Horab. Captured by a ruthless Arab slave trader and sold into captivity in the distant land of Dinora, their fate hangs in the balance until a mysterious warrior named Sabu intervenes. As the sisters struggle to reclaim their throne, danger, betrayal, and ancient secrets rise from the shadows.
In "The Thing from the Sea!", a drowned man’s vengeful return from the ocean depths begins with a single, relentless tread through the dark. After being murdered and dumped at sea, Eddie Murray’s body drifts home, drawn not by instinct but by a quiet, unrelenting purpose. As the killer courts the dead man’s love, the tide brings something far older and colder than grief—something that walks the seabed and knows the way back.
In the quiet town of Maple Valley, an art competition ignites a chilling mystery when Ezra Vale’s unsettling painting, *The Forest of Fear*, draws scorn for its grotesque image of a monster among gnomes. When the painting’s bizarre vision begins to bleed into reality—first with strange disappearances, then with the victims appearing in the artwork itself—the town’s obsession with beauty and judgment takes a terrifying turn.
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