Beir se OC ema awaits you Cu Fry ; rr ct ttt i aHERE’S THE LATEST IN OK SHRIEKING SERIES OF MONSTROUS MASTERPIECES,,, VUST OFF A SPOT ON YOUR TOMB AND GET READY TO HANG THIS -ZOMBIES! ATHROBOF ORUMS FROM FAR- OFF HILLS, THE SHARP CRY OF A SOUL-BIRO...DOORS ARE BARRED AND SuMPLE MEN DRAW CLOSE ABOUT THEIR LAMPS.,, NOW THROUGH MOON DRENCHED FIELOS, A DREADFUL COMPANY MOVES! DEAD BODIES GIVEN DIM ANO SOUL: LESS LIFE BY YGOROO CULT PRIESTS THROUGH UNLAWFUL NECROMANCY AND SENT TO TOIL IN NIGHTED CANE- BRAKES! ONLY WHEN FED SALT CAN THESE SLAVE CREATURES FINO PEACE FROM THEIR, TASKMASTERS! ART BY ROY G,JAMES WARREN Editor and Publisher RICHARD CONWAY DAN ATKINS BEN ODA ‘Assistant to the Publisher Cover Artist Rettering CONTRIBUTORS: Tom Sutton, Johnny Craig, Jeff Jones, Joe Orlando, Ric Estrada, Al McWilliams CONTENTS MASOUE OFTHE 3 BED DEATH... 6) VAMPIRGS......... NOR CUSTOM, ESCAPE... AP | PORTRAIT OF Sun.After ripping: apart the mag rack in a frantic effert.ta find EERIE #10, | camencross it hid- den between two other mags Game other fiend had hidden it ‘there, | suppose).In my opinion, WARRIOR OF DEATH, HOUSE OF FIENDS, and the SLUGS ‘mere the best stories ‘Steve Githo-and Jerry Granden etti dee fabulous artists. | truly ‘enjoy vampire stories, $0 please nave more of them in the Future, | have one suggestion. Why don'tyou and Uncle Creepy have an EERIE and CREEPY ANNUAL, and you'd make us fellow mon ssters very happy. ‘Debbie Ward Keloeina, Canada Now you'va done it, Bebbiat War- en's been wonderiag how he was ‘going to smeak a plug for the now GREEPY 1968 YEARBOOK (on «: ow) ito MY letters page, and you have: given him the parfset chan Wt contains weled works trem sindome's earliest issues, and some of ther as my own fa ‘well buy it, Teil keep you awake ‘until the mest issue of my mon- ‘straus mag comes out—CE | thought issue 410 was ex: ceptionally good. The best stor- ies, in my opinion, were FOR THE BIRDS, HOUSE OF FIENDS,and VooD0o DRUM. THE SLUGS and IT were okay. | taught WARRIOR OF DEATH wat well drawn, but the script became boring. The cover was also well drawn 1 think Alan Rentrow’s idea (he stated that EERIE should be done in color) would make EERIE a “eomie book in the eyes of the renders. It looks ‘excelent In black and white, Ren Hackett Oahu, Haw 1 used to say horror comics ‘were dead with EC comics, until | picked up EERIE, Eserie, 35 CREEPY, as BLAZING COMBAT, ig great. Frozetta is the best painter Since Mucha and Ditko ‘the best drawer since Beardsley (that's not at random | picked Up these names). Have Stan (the man} Lee ané Jack (the king) Kirby do a story in the Dunsany way-Have more Wood and Wil Famson=Have-But 1 stop. You fare so great now, that itis hard to become better. Jean Pierre Dionnet Livry-Gargan, France PS-Excuse my very very bed Engtish ‘Tho enajacty ane would Ron=CE iia of aur fiendish am to back you up. | am a college student and in ‘my spare time, | enloy reading herrer magazines. The reason | enjoy your mag so wol is that ‘you heve a serious approach to ‘your generally well writen store ies. Most of the people whorwrite to your book express an interest inthe fine artwork you have. Wall Van mainly interested in the story material and as for your maa, they are great. What many people don't realize is thet new and different angies ara very dif. ficult to come wp with, writers do.a superb job ing up interesting plots. In issue 10, your best written stor were! WARRIOR OF DEATH, HOUSE OF FRIENDS, and FOR THE BIRDS. Your worst effort of this edition was. YOOD0O BRUM, Even though Iam no authority an art, Vreally dig the art af Eugene Colan. Steve fn the interest of Freneh-Ameris {aations, maybe you should EERIE #10 was superb! One thing though: I've tried to look up "Wfendigo” in a dictionary, eneyelopedia, books and other sources of information and he's fot there, Why? Old you make it up? WARRIOR OF DEATH wasn't good, and wasa't bad et ther. THE SLUGS was fair Tt was 2nd best tome, ¥OO- DOO DRUM was best, and HOUSE OF FIENDS was s8 good {don't know how to describe it. ne thing though: Was the old veedea guy an old zendic? ‘Tom Weaver Tarrytown, New York Missoula, Montana: ATTENTION: FIENDISH FANS! ‘Ara you having trouble flnéing EERIE at your newsstand? Gmashing ‘your tangs because you find the last copy 1old out? Do trlends ke {iactex uu beans fhe cay et nk orm copes the mich Well, you can put ad to this wicked sltuation without wslonce oy Bloodshed, Just fil ext the coupon below and sand It ta Us TODA! Tho problea wi be ‘akan care of, ant we'll thank you from the bottom of cur back Ita heart ‘tare or Hawsstand’s ADDRESS. STATE. cry. Biro eiecnamanaacas [Mall Caupon To: See MMe tn Issue #11 wes one of those half and haif issues, Half good ‘and half bad. The mistake that fealty bugs me was on the con ents page, One of the titles that Impressed me the most was 1M AGE IN WAX. It wos listed os be. 8 on page 38, was | shocked! Instead of IMAGE IN WAX, there was THE MONSTER FROM ONE BILLION BC! Please tell me,what ‘ever happanod to IMAGE IN WAX. The Adam's art was. fobu fous, just too much! BLOOD. FRUIT by Jahnny Craig was the 2nd best story. I liked the tricky ig 2nd theart was fabulous. BLOOD was tremendous, both in art and script. The story ‘was periect in every way, But the We're mat sure, Tom, We've tried looking “zendic” up ina dictionary, ‘encyclopedia, books and other ‘saurees of information and he's ‘aot there—CE 1 really hate to start right off ‘with a complaint but your last igsue,_na. 11, started aff pretty bad. The cover and first story ‘weren't up to your usual stan- dards, After being discouraged, Jas mat with the next story TO SLAY A DRAGON, Jeff Jones did 3 superb jab on art and the story was great. I especially liked the way Mr, Janes paced his panels It really acids! Happy to see another adapta- rime Mau ance ee ane plng tached seta of your best, BLOOD FRUIT was DU! good, ang sowas THEMONster FROM ONE BILLION BC, but BIG CHANGE topped them all. Please let Neal Adams de more stories, and I'd lave to. see him do a cover. Lastly, | was. hapoy 10 see new advertisements, of all things. They always previgeaned reading. Donald R, Page Louisville, Kentucky Bruce Beard Montreal, Canada Dus to some last minute deadline problems, THE MONSTER FROM ONE MILLION BC tad te ba sunt tuted for IMAGE IN WAX (bath by Tor Suttan), But there wasn't time to make the eerrection an the Can toms fare, Bort fret though Siuee. Yau will boat IMAGE IN WAX anid the ghoulish agings-on in GREEPY #17=0E How in the world do you guys dg It? Do you sit on.a tombstone to inspire yourselves? However you doit, | must say yau'requite Something. Anyway, VOODOO DRUM, FOR THE BIRDS, and WARRIOR OF DEATH made the best in issue #10. Credit must ‘aiven (don't give them any- thing else, they'l expect itevery time) to Jerry Grandenetti, Con Adkins, and Neal Adams. Toobad 1'Ve anly been reading your mag THE SLUGS in EERIE 10 was ‘g0od, Dut also sort of hard to.un- ‘Gerstand. I'm gias you brought back Bill Pearson. | haven'thears of him since CREEPY #1. Archio Goodwin is a goad horror wr But_he writes 9/10 of all the CREEPY and EERIE stories. He Fe used too much (or i it Tob tune since sue 7 Fue lost'a UCh!) lot. Z : in = Bill Swank . ‘Catiin, Miguel Motta Fajarde, Pusrto Rico Pe Cre eT poison pen letters te: EERIE LET- We admit we're quite something, Migual. What KIND. of something we're not 0 eure af—CE ie oe eee Pk AanNow, RABID READERS, WE_DIP INTO THE PULSATING PAGES OF MACABRE MASTER EDGAR ALLAN POE TO DRAW FORTH HIS CREEPY CLASSIC... DEAR GOD, THE or ISEASE, [9 UPON ices Naren es HAD EVER BEEN 50 FATAL, OR. 0 HiDe- PON FACE AND BOBY OF THE VICTIM “THE RED DEATH HAD LONG DEVASTATED THE COUNTRY, NO PESTILENCE US. BLOOD WAs ITS AVATAR ‘AND ITS OPAL —“Triy SCARLET STARS U PEST BAN WHICH SHUT HIM OUT FROM THE AID AND SYMPATHY OF HIS FELLOW MEN FRO FIRST SEZURE rf = ( AVE, US... BUT NOT FWEMI! HOT PRINCE i Faces shor ear db oRttchs ms NE TRE E Seay re a OU we iP'cars'n He cherie ToBay wa eouRTIER MATTER OF TIME, WELDED SHUT THE GREAT IRON GATES: INS ine eo foetus iate lS alePRINCE PROSPERO WAS HAPPY AND OAUNTLESS; THE EXTERNAL WORLD COULD TAKE CARE OF ITSELF. IT WAS FOLLY TO GRIEVE OR THINK, AND AGAINST THIS PROSPERO HAD PROVIDED ALL THE APPLIANCES OF PLEASURE. ALL THESE AND SECURITY WAS WITHIN, WITHOUT WAS THE RED DEATH... WY LADY, WITH % A PROVISIONS SuicH : AS THESE KwoD WANT TOF HA, HO! Jia AY LORD HOST, WITH THE GATES SEALED THERE 15 NO ESCAPE FROM THE CASTLE... H i a S = Bde silt i IT WAS TOWARD THE CLOSE OF THE SIXTH MONTH OF THIS SECLUSION, WHILE THE PESTI FURIGUSLY ABROAD, THAT PRINCE PROSPERO ARRANGED AN UNUSUAL ENTERTAINMENT. .. LENCE RAGED MOST yi YOU KMOW THE PLACE THEN? JMAGHIFICENTLY. ZARRE! THERE ARE SEVEN SEPARATE ROOMS, EACH A DIFFERENT cOL- (OR,, AND. THE LAST PROSFERO'S A GENUS FOR {{...18 THE BLACK ROOM, THE ILLU- fa) AINATION Is THE DEEP RED COL ‘OR OF BLOOD PROSPERO'S ALSO A GENIUS FOR THE MACABRE! } AND THE PRINCE'S GENIUS PR WAS THE GUIDING ere[AND EVEN THE GIDDIEST OF THE DANCERS CEASED AND GREW PALE! “THE OTHER ROOMS WERE DENSELY CROWDED, BUT TO THE BLACK ROOM, NOK! WOULD VENTURE. WITHIN ROUPED THERE’ STOOD “A “GIGANTIC CLOcK OF EBONY, ai 9 z ii a a a Bs a cH (ings OF THE cine CAME A SOUND OF So. PECULIAR A NOTE THAT THE (MUSICIANS WERE CONSTRAINED TO PAUSE Bur WHEN THE ECHOS HAD FULLY CEASED, ALL SMILED ‘i ND MMADE WHISPERING VOWS, BACH TO THE OTHER, THAT THE MEXT CHIMING OF TRE CLOck WOULD NOT FIND THEM AGAIN AFRAID: “Then, 1, AGAIN, AETER WHAT WHIMSEY OF THE LAPSE GF PRINCE PROS - SIXTY MINUTES: VIDED SUcH A, TIMEPIECE WOULD COME 7 SO, THE HOUR? IPS THE KE (MOST DEPRESSING SOUND, 'Y OF A Map: JAIGHT SAN THOUGHORE THE LAST ECHOES OF THE LAST CHIME HAD TERLY, SUNK TRIO SILENCE, THE MOTIONLESS OANC, IECRME, AWARE OFTHE BRESENCE OF A MASKET FicuRe Wil InD ARRESTED THE ATTENTION OF NO SINGLE THDWIDUAL BEFORE. Ny 2 i _ ever, we ; AK i vet, WENT Z J i THERON Bed 5 ye Pw ‘AT LENGTH THERE eee Be ae ‘ % er Beri unr i ill ! | rag hao en “THERE AROSE AT LENGTH FROW Te WHOLE COMPANY: A RURAAUR. OF FIRST SURPRISE, THEN TERROR, HORROR, | if SIRE, THE FELLOW GOES TOO FAR! EVEN ATH TAM! Sor Shes THERE AR MAT. TERS OF WHICH RO, JEST CAN BE MADE/ ALL MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENDURED, If NOT Af ROVED BY THIBur From A ceatain jf NAMELESS Ave Witt F WHICH THE MADE ‘ASSUMPTIONS OF THE FIGURE HAD PiRED THE Pur FORTH HANO “TO SEIZE HIM “THEN, PRINCE PROSPERO, MADDENED WITH RAGE AND THE SHAME OF His MOMENTARILY COW- ARDICE, RUSHED FORWARD... | THE BIACK CHAMBER!gy ATTAMED THE EXTREMITY OF K = Shine ite Gee RB ToRaes SubCeRY ‘He's SLAIN, THE PRET SeoPROuTED hie PURSE : jorge q SUNUAONING THE WILD COURAGE GF DESPAIR, A THRONG OF REVELLERS HURLED THEMSELVES INTO THE ARTMENT WHERE AND NOW WAS ACKNOWLECGED THE PRESENCE OF THE RED BEATH! WE HAD COME LIKE A THIEF IN THE RIGHT, AND ONE By, ONE DROPPED THE REVELLERS IN THE BLOOD BEDEWED HALLS OF ‘TUBIR, REVEL, AND DIED EACH IN THE DESPAIRING: POSTURE OF HIS AND THE LIFE OF THE EBORY CLOCK WENT. HE LAST OF THE GAY| ID DARKNESS AND DECAY. THE RED DEATH HELD YLLHTABLE ‘DOMINION OVER ALL id,DON'T JUST STAND THERE ON THE WELCOME BAT, COME INTO MY ABOMINABLE ABOOE FOR A TERRIFYING TRIP INTO THE CENTRAL AMERICAN JUNGLES, WHERE LURKS THE DEADLY VAMPIRE GAT... FOR REAL! IF YOU DOWIT BELIEVE ME) FLY. OVER TO YOUR NEAREST DICTIONARY AND TAKE A PEEK. BUT FIRST, PREPARE YOURSELF WITH THIS TANTALIZING TALE OF THE VORACIGUS.., THREE WEEKS HOW, KAISER, THREE WEEKS! THOSE BATS ARE THE CWE HEAT! RAIN! SNAKES! CROCODILES! EVERY- t THING BUT THOSE You FINDING IT WOULD BE NO GLASTED GATS YOU'RE PICNIC... WE CANIT QUIT NOW! LOOKING FOR! YEAH, YEAH! VAMPIRE BATS!’ BAT WORSHIPPERS! MAYEN GOLD! BETTER WE LOOK FOR THE END OF THE NEXT RAINBOW!TALCORDING TO LEGEND, ONE GROUP, LOADED Wi Bite, AWD LED ay ies Ton PRIEST AZEPHE-TE, FLED TO A HIDDEN TEMPLE TO ENTRUST THEIR WEALTH TO ARDISIS, THE SEEK THIS TREASURE! TO THis END. WE TO YOU_AND THE LIFE COMMIT OURSEL INVOUR SERVICE -TKe Lire WHICH WE KNOW CAN ONLY FOLLOW...”? Bur APPARENTLY, ONE OF ATEPHE-TE'S FOLLOWERS WASI Keer THE IDEA OF SLAYING : Ea Wien atvARADO's TROOPS FOUND Him, HE nT i ON HIMSELF AND FLED FROM by WAS NEARLY PEAD FROM EXPOSURE. HE AN: B AGED To TELL THAT MUCH OF THE STORY BE THE SPANIARDS EVER FOUND THE TEMPLE...” TEMPI FORE HE DIED, BUT THERE'S NO INDICATION PREFERING TOBE A LIVE SLAVE OF THE SPANIARDS RATHER THAN A DEAD BAT WORSHIPPER,”A/ THEY SEEMED TO BE CIRCLING. OVER... ‘4 i fi / THE TREASURES LOOK AT THE size 4 5S OF ALEPHE-TE! OF THAT THING! an ‘ oo 4 THERE Must ny MUSEUM IN THE % e BE MILLIONS. STATES WOULD Pi ‘ i ) THERES AFORTUNE FOR Th as f iLET'S GRAB WHT Wie CAN AND GET OUT OF HERE! THIS PLACE \3 BE- GINNING TO Give ME THE CREEPS! HATRE WE NOTHIN' TO BE SéARED OF, KAISER/ THERE'S Just YOU AND L THAT Srariie OVER THERE AND... AND. VIOLATORS OF THE TEMPLE! PREPARE. TO FEEL THE WRATH OF ARDISIS!THE BATS! GOOD Za LORD, THEYRE [ EVERYWHERE! DIRTY LITTLE BEGGARS! You _HURT BADLY? WEWVE GOT TOMMAKE IT TO THE JUNGLE! COM‘N, AuRRYY WE CAN STOP NOW. THE FOLIAGE Is TOO CENSE FOR THE BATS A TO GET AT us! PY CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT MADE ‘EM ATTACK US! THEY DIDN'T BOTHER US WHEN WE WENT IN THE TEMPLE! SIMPLE. HE'S A VAMPIRE, TOO. YEAH, KAISER? f & WHET? LOOK, WE Soo KNOW VAMPIRE BATS OTe NAY EXIST IN THIS AREA, BE NATURAL EVERYEOOY DOES! GUT Bar Hew BG VAMPIRES IN HUMAN "| y FORM ARE STRICTLY SOMETHING , Like AZEPHE-TE, FOR HORRGR FANS! ‘WISE GUYSTABBING HIMSELF WAS ONLY FART R YOU NEVER MENTIONED OF THE SACRIFICIAL RITUAL AZEPHE-TE Jes q THAT PART OF THE WENT THROUGH...1T BROUGHT FORTH J LEGEND BEFORE ,..yOU THE BLOOD SO THE TEMPLE GATS COULONIT! NO SURVIVOR WOULD SWOOP DOWN_ON HIM, AND THEIR BITE TURNED Aan INTO A VAMPIRES THE POWER OF ARDISIS DICTATES THAT HIS VAMPIRIC GUARDIANS: MUST STAY WITHIN THE TEMPLE AREA TO GUARD THE TREASURES BECAUSE THOSE BATS BIT ME, RSMMC... INFECTED me! I MUST RETURN TO THE TEMPLE TO HELP GUARD. ARDISIS AND His WEALTH FOR ETERNITY... Pe w-WHATIS WRONG WITH YOU, KAISER? HOW...HOW'D YOU EVER PREAN UP . CH STORY? HEE, HEE THE BOYS WON'T REALLY NEED THE TREASURE ANYWAY SINCE THEY'VE FOUND STEADY JOBS! IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, THEY TELL Me ARDISIS 1S ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW APPLICANTS, SUCH AN AGGRESSIVE OUTFIT CAN ALWAYS USE SOME FRESH e100D/HEE, HEE! TS STORY ISN'T NECESSARILY THE STRAW THAT @ROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK, Bari His, UST HAVE BEEN THE RESULT OF OLD AGH? THE CAMECS ACE, THAT 1S, NOT THE STORY'S ...FOR THE TALE | AS TIMELESS ‘AS TOMORROW, TAKING PLACE INA LAND OF YESTERDAY, AND A FITTING TITLE COULD ONLY BE... -NOR CUSTOM, STALE... Tt WAS TRAVELLING IN THE LAND OF SUMARIA, SEVERAL YEORS AGO, ACCOMPANIED BY MY BRIDE ELAINE. iting OUR HONE ViRdON, fi FACT, BND INTHE BLISTERING DegEe] HEAT We WONDERED HOW THE TRAVEL POSTERS COULD EVER HAVE MADE SUCH A DESOLATE PLACE SEEM $0 INTRIGUING, 50 BEGUILING. 50 COMPLETELY FASCINATING «+. We HAD ARRIVED IN THIS LAND BUT THREE pays pact, A GIALL TEMPLE, LYING HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN AT THE SEAPORT OF MULLACCA, A CITY CIF ONE COULD ITSELF WAS THE MAIN REASON FOR OUR JOURNEY. FOR CALLITA CITY) THAT RAD ITS MARKETS AND BAZAARS © (TWAS HERE WE SOUGHT TO FIND THE ANSWERS TO BUT LITTLE ELSE AND, LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR MANY QUESTIONS...QUESTIONS CONCERNING MY BRIDE. JOURNEY TO THE MOUNTAIN OF JURADA, WE WERE SLAD TO’ PUT IT BEHIND US...SHE WAS NOT ENGLISH AS 1 WAS, BUT OF SOME MIDDLE EASTERN ANCESTRY. WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW, ACTUALLY, FOR SHE HAD BEEN THE VICTIM OF AMNESIA JUST BEFORE TWAS CALLED (TO TREAT HER. SHE HAD NO RELATIVES QR FRIENDS, WE KNEW NOT FROM WHERE SHE CAME O8 WHEN, O@ OR ANYTHING, BUT T FELL IN LOVE WITH HER BLMOST AT ONCE, NONETHELESS. We tio TRIED EVERY MEBNS OF RECALLING HER MEMORY, OF IDENTIFYING HER, BUT WITH NO SUCCESS. IT WAS ONLY WHEN WE DECIDED To MARRY AND BEGAN TO] ELAN QUR HONEYMOON THAT WE ACCIDENTLY RECEIVED. A GLINMER OF HOPE We Hap SPENT MANY HOURS, BROWSING THROUGH TRAVEL FOLPERS OF SUCH PLACES AS NEW SORK, OF PARIS AND HAWAIL, BUT SOMEHOW THEY ALL SEEMED COMMONPLACE. WE HAD HOPED TO FIND A SPOT TWAT WAS DIFFERENT... EXOTIC... Er was wit THis THOUGHT THAT We ENTERED THE TRAVEL AGENCY OF ONE MAR, ARAL KUSHNI, A SIAALL, SWARTHY, OILY-SKINNED MAN WITH LARGE TEETH SET IN A FULL-LIPFED MOUTH THAT SAILED WITHOUT SMILING... My Wire ELAINE 1S VERY BEAUTIFUL tH THAT PARK, MYSTERIOUS MANNER 90 DOMINANT IN FOREIGN WOMEN, AND 1 COULD UNDERSTAND MR. KUSHN!'S SOMEWHAT KEEN APPRAICAL OF HER... BUT THOUGH TT RILED MY JEALOUSY, ELAINE SEEMED NOT TO NOTICE, AND STHE WALLS OF HIS ESTAELISHMENT WERE COVERED WITH BRIGHT TRAVEL FOSTERS AND ME. KUSHNI GRACIOUSLY RELATED INTERESTING FACTS REGARDING THE PLACES THEY REPRESENTED...HONG KONG, INDIA, BURMA. $0 [HELD MY TONGUE AND SAID ROTHING... AND THEN WE FACED & POSTER OF SuMARIA, AND COULDN'T HELP BLT NOTICE A'TREMOR PULSE THROUGH NY LOVELY ELAINE, MZ. KUSHNS WAS SPEAKING NOT TO Me, BUT TO HER, atib AS 1 TURNED 76 Hew. 1 COULD SEE THAT SOMETHING WAS OBVIOUSLY WRONG. LAINE, DARLING! .-1 DON'T KNOW. IT? WHAT'S WRONGE, THAT POSTER... IT WAD_AN EFFECTIE WAS VISIBLY SHAKEN. 1 TURNED AGAIN TO THE POSTER, DEEMED ITO BE MUCH LIKE ANY OTHER MR, KUSHNT WHAT 15 THAT PUGTURE THE POSTER, DEPICTS F iT iS A TEMPLE, 3IR. AHO TEMPLE, LRNGWN AS "AL VISLU SADA’ ‘Our BOAT LEFT LONDON THE FOLLOWING WEEK. THE WEDDING WAS BRIEF AND THE JOURNEY WAS LONG AND THOUGH WE TRIED TO BE GAY, THERE HOVERED OVER Us THE INTERMINABLE QUESTIONS WAITING 1O BE ENSWERED. N SEARING WASTELANI IT CANT BE MUCH FURTHER, CAN IT, PETER = JOW WE JOGGED ON CAMEL'S BACK ACROSS DESERTED, ID, APPROACHING WITH PAINSTAKING SLOWNESS, THE MOUNTAINS THAT LOOMED BEFORE US. WE SPENT ANOTHER ARDUOUS DAY IN THE SADDLE, AND THEN WE WERE IN THE FOOTHILLS... NO, I DON'T THINK SO. WE SHOULD REACH THE VILLAGE OF RANUMA BEFORE PARK. JAGAIN ELAINE REACTE! INGLY, FRIGHTENINGLY INTO. INY EYES. ELAINE! THAT |) 1 DON'T KNOW. POSTER HAS ) MY DARLING! T SOME ONLY KNOW IT. MEANING TO \\ ITS TRYING TO YOu! WHAT MAKE ME ig ire REMEMBER SOMETHING ... BUT I CANNOT! AND 50 WE DID. A SHORT TIME AFTER. SUNSET WE CLIMBED THE LAST RIDGE AND BEFORE US IN THE GATHERING DUSK WE SAW OUR DESTINATION..RANUMA! PETER! THE GUIDES WANT US 70 GET OFF THE CAMELS ! [DONT THINK THEY WANT TO GO ANY FURTHER THAN THis! CLEARLY THERE WAS NO CHOICE FOR HERE Wis & POSSIBILITY OF LIFTING THE VEIL FROM ELAINE'S MIND, AND: SHE AND 1 BOTH KNEW WE COULD NOT LIVE OUT OUR LIVES TOGETHER, WITHOUT SEEING THIS CLUE TO ITS END. MME. KUSHNI, T WNT YOU TO ARRANGE PASSAGE FOR TWO, TO SUMARIA |Avaric), 1 PAID THEM THEIR WAGES AND THEY, LEFT, THEN TURNING OUR ATTENTION TO THE VILAGE, WE SAN THAT THE MASSIVE GATES HAD OPENED AND & CLUSTER OF PEOPLE CAME SLOWLY TOWARD US... LOOK, ELAINE! 4 WELCOMING COMMITTEE J AT LEAST WE'LL HAVE HELP WITH, OUR BAGGAGE | WERE LED THROUGH THE GRTES INTO THE SMALL ENING VILLAGE. NIGHT WAS. FALUNG RAPIDLY ne SHAPES OF BUILDIN SEEMED BLT BLACKISH SHADOWS In swence, HE BEARERS BROUGHT ‘OUR BELONGINGS TO A SQUALID ROOM IN ONE OF THE BUILDINGS. WHICH I SUPPOSED WAS THE LOCAL INN), WE ENTERED AND THE BOGR CLOSED BEHIND US, LEAVING US ALONE... WEIRD. 1 SAW NO. WNNKEEPER, YET FROM THE WAY THEY ACT, You'D THINK THEY RECEIVE VISiTORS LIKE US EVERY DAY! : ‘o Nal J ROSE QUIETLY AND CAUTIOUSLY MADE Mi Why THROUGH THE ALMOST TOTAL BLACKNESS OF THE ROOM To WHERE THE NIGHT GIMLY OUTLINED THE SHALL WINDOW... QUEER ...WHAT BLASTED FOOL WOULD BE RINGING ‘ABELL UKE THAT AT. THIS TWAE OF NIGHT F ‘SfMOUGH We HAD EATEN LUTTLE THAT AY, NEITHER OF US CARED FOR F000, AND SINCE We BOTH WERE VERY TIRED WE CHANGED TO SLEEPWEAR, STRETCHED OUT GN THE TWO SMALL BEDS. AND PROMPTLY SLEPT... Act wusr Hour oF nisinr rr oecuRRED, TBO NOT KNOW, BUT SLOMLY MY CONSCIOUSNESS BECAIE AWARE OF THE DEEP AND HOLLOW RINGING OF ABELL, SLOW IN CADENCE, LONG AND FRIGHTENING (N TONE, GOUNDING AT ONCE BOTH NEAR AND FAR ANAY... T LOOKED OUT ONTO THE VILLAGE BUILDINGS ALL SHADOWED AND HUSHED. I SAW NO ONE AT ALL, BUT AS I GAZED ABGUT, ONY EVES BEFELL IN THE STARLIGHT A PATHWAY LEADING FROM THE BOUNDARY OF THE TINY HAMLET LP INTO THE MOUNTRIN, AND THERE WAS SOMEONE... SOMEONE CLINGING ‘THET PATHWAY !Jk A FRENZY, 1 DRESSED AND RUSHED FROM THE BUILDING, STUIRBLING 0 THE BLACKNESS ACROSS THE VILLAGE GROUNDS TO THE PATHWAY... SHE'S NOT tN SIGHT! I'LL HAVE TO HURRY! SHE'S HEADING FOR THE TEMPLE UP THERE... THE TEMPLE, MACLY THURRIED UPWARD. Mav THOUGHTS IN JUMBLED CONELISION. AS T NEARED THE CREST OF THE PATHWAY, MV HEAVING LUNGS WERE AeAlLED WITH A STRANGE Yer FAMILIAR ODOR, sicZENING AND CHARNAL AND! AS 1 TOOK THE LAST FEW’ STEPS, THE TEMPLE Hoeririep, 1 COULD ONLY WATCH HER, AS SHE CALIMLY WALKED UP THE TEMPLE STEPS. INTO THe WAITING HANDS OF TALL, SHROUDED FIGURES WHO UEHERED ‘HER INSIDE... ‘THEY..TMEY WERE EXPECTING HER! OF LIFE! Z T RAN HEADLONG ACROSS THE OPEN GROUND TD THE TEMPLE STEPS BEFORE SLOWING AND CAUTIOUSLY CLIMBING THEM TO THE OPEN DOORWAY. THE STENCH WAS NOW ALMOST UNBEARABLE, CAUSING INE TO CHOKE.) GREAT SCOTT! 1 KNOW THAT SMELL FROM THE WAR! THE SMELL OF DEATH! TN A FOR CORNER, HOODED FIGURES BENT OVER A BODY, AND AT A SIGNAL, TWO SLOW-MOVING, ZOMBIE -LIKE. CREATURES CAME FORWARD AND REMOVED THE CARCASS. WHAT ARE THEY 7 HOW THOUGH T KNOW IT. TO BE HAPPENING ? STOOD BEFORE ME. WHAT HIE THEY DONE TO MAKE HER WITH POUNDING HEART I SLIPPED INSIDE THE TEMPLE WHERE MY WORST FENG WERE REALIZED. IN THE DUSKY, FOUL-SMELLING CHAMBER THE NAUSEATING MIXTURE OF DECRY AND STRONG INCENSE ONLY HEIGHTENED THE TERRIFYING SIGHT. GOOD HEAVENS! wiht FIEND! H PLACE 1S THIS. THAT COLLECTS BOBIES FOR ITS. My FEARS FOR ELAINE'S SAFETY WERE AT FEVER PITCH!) THE INCESSANT BELL-SOUND THROEBED AND RESOUND- ED THROGSH THE VERY WALLS, AND 1 STEAUTHILY REPT INTO THE NEXT CHAMBER. HERE SEVERAL FIGURES iN SHROUDS DIRECTED THE BURNING OF A FIRE IN 8 HUGE CRLDRON..QNe AFTER SMOTHER, THE DEAD BEINGS CLIMBED TO THE CAULDEON'S RIM AND DUMPE THEIR STIFFENED BURDENS INTO THE FLAMES THE CHOKING, SEKRING HEAT AND VomiTOUS SMELL ALMOST CAUSED ME TO FAINT... FIENDS! FIENDS! To DESECRATE THE DEAD! THIS IS NO TEMPLE OF LIFE, BUT OF DEATHS SEFULCHRAL. WA NTE THR Wb ALMOST BEYOND REASON, 1 PLUNGED INTO THE NEXT CHAMBER. IN SEARCH OF Wi BRIDE AND THERE ON A RAISED ALTAR SHE LAY AS IE CEAG, HER PALE WHITE SKIN CONTRASTING SHARPLY WITH THE BLACK-ROBED FIGURES ATTENDING HER. IN THEI HANDS WERE INSTRUMENTS, AND SURROUNOING THEM WERE JARS AND URNS, ELS FILLED WITH THE POWDERS AND LIQUIDS OF ANCIENT, UNHOLY ALCHEMY... STOP, YOU FOUL DEVILS! TAKE YOUR HANDS FROM HER! ATO? THE ALTAR 1 BEGAN RIPPING AWAY THE NEEDLES AND TUBES THAT PIERCED HER FLESH AND AS I Gi SO AN AWESOME MOAN ERUPTED FROM BEHIND, T TURNED: IN TIME TO STOP & PHANTOMED SHROUD FROM ATTACKING ME, BY KICKING OVER. A BRAZIER OF FLAMING COALS. ‘THE FIGURE SPRAWLED TO THE FLOOR UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE iY HEAVY BRAZIER, ITS COMS ENGULFING HIS ROBES BND SETTING SUDDEN ACTION SEEMING To SURPRISE, HIM AFIRE ! QUICKLY, AS THE DENMION'S ALLIES RUSHED TO Hl FOR NO ONE STOPPED ME! HAD THEY TRIED, 1 AIG, I SNATCHED THE LIMP FORM OF MY BELOVED INTO MY ARMS, WOULD HAVE RENT THEM APART WITH MY HANDS AND BAN!TRAN...AND RAN! AWAY FROI\ THAT FIENDISH, HORRID- SMELLING DEVIL'S LAR! DOWN THE PATHWAY I STUMBLED, WY _BREMTHS COMING IN RAVAGED GASPS, TRYING TO CLEANSE THEMSELVES OF THE FOULNESS! (ONL WENT, To THE BASE OF THE PATH, THROUGH THE SILENT, EMPTY VILLAGE, THROUGH THE GATE AND INTO THE DAWNING LIGHT OF THE DESERT ON CHURNING LEGS IN SHIFTING SAND 1 RACED TO RID MYSELF OF THE HORROR THATHAUNTED MY BRAIN AND FOLLOWED BEHIND ON QRINGUG BELL TONES CARRYING ACEORE THE DESERT TO SPEED MME AWAY! AWAY! diver ! IN SHIMMERING, BLAZING DESERT HEAT WITH CRYING AND TEARS OF ANGUISH AND PAIN AND REVOLTING, TERRIFIED MADNESS AND FEAR BND MILES AND MILES UNTIL CHOKING AND WOBBLING ON LEGS OF STRAW 3 COULD MOVE NO MORE AND COLLAPSED HEADLONG INTO THE BLISTERING SAND! LONG, LONG HOURS PASSED BEFORE THE COOL.FRESH BREEZE OF THE DESERT NIGHT CARESSED AND SOOTHED THE FIERY HEAT OF MY BRAIN, ANID WITH JERKING, NODDING! MOTIONS [RAISED MY HEAD AND OPENED BURNING EYES TO SEE A FAMILIAR FACE..- ~ EM@...KUSH ., KUSHNI! YOU.YOU PLANNED THIS. YOU SENT HER TO THEM. (F..IF HAD THE STRENGTH... TO KILL YOu, iP THOSE OF US WHO CANNOT BE SRIED Ane DeBTeOVED WINE FIRES, OF OBLIVION. THEY WHO ARE PARTIALLY SAVED REIAIN TO WORK AND ASSIST. BUT OTHERS ARE FULLY RESTORED AND ALLOWED TO RE-ENTER THE WORLD ‘OF THE LIVING...His SOT VOICE, WIG MANHER AND WORDS ALL TENDED To | IN THIS LAND, EVERYONE WHO DIES |S BROUGHT TO THE MUDDLE MY THOUGHTS. 1 COULD NOT COMPREHEND... | TEMPLE. THE HIGH PRIESTS THERE ARE NOT SORCERERS COULD ON CONGENTNTE CN GATHERING PHYSICAL ‘OR DEVILS... THEY DO NOT DESECRATE AND KILL! THEY ENERGY... RESTORE Ure! AND THEY HAVE TRIED TO RESTORE 00 YOU UNDERSTAND NOW F ONCE EACH NEAR THEY MUST RETURN FOR FURTHER RESTORATION. T KNOW... FOR TAM ONE UFE...ROR YOU, CRESCENT ON MY FOREHEAD ...IT IDENTIFIES ME AS IT DID YOUR Wire. YOU WILL FORGIVE we, my “FF ..warr..vou..vou saip | | NO, MY FRIEND ...RESTORATION IN FULL CAN ONLY BE FRIEND, BUT I CON They | THEY RESTORE vice. | | cose ONCE, AND CT TAKES BUT A GLANCE To See SHE NO LONGER FOR Wi HOUR JP THEN TAKE HER THERE... | | HAS OIED MANY YEARS BEFORE THIS DAY. BY TAKING IN THE TEMPLE (5 FAST TAKE HER THERE...1O HER FROM THe TEMPLE YOU HAVE NOT SAVED HER... APPROACHING . NOW. T YOU HAVE CAUSED HER TO BE IN CEATH FOREVER! CAN ONLY... | CAN ONLY LEAVE YOU ALONE WITH YOUR GRIEF. [AND NOW, (N SOLITUDE, SURROUNDED BY JARS AND URNS FILLED WITH THE POWDERS AND FROTHING, BUBBLING LIQUIDS, 1 PORE THROUGH ANCIENT TOMES, READING, SEARCHING, EXPER(MENTING ... HOPING TO FIND THE MAGICAL FORMULA THAT WILL REANIMATE MY BEAUTIFUL ELAINE AND ONCE MORE RETURN HER TO oe PATIENCE, MY DARLING... PRTIENCE | Demme! WEES MOST GE AWAY. AND T WILL SAHARA YK DOW, GANG? HEE. HEET ELAINE WAS & DERD-HERD ALL THE TIME. TURNED OUT TO BEA REAL STIWKER DIDN'T SHEF WELL, FOR PETE'S SAKE, WHAT COULD You EXPECT! HE DID MARRY HER FOR BETTER GR WORSE, (ONT HEF 50 WHAT COULD BE WORSE?THE J2E OU OsASLE ON THE SOUTH AMERICAN COAST, 1931... A SMALL, WORTH- LESS ISLAND WITH _A GRIM REPUTATION... Debits /SLAND! THE NOTORIOUS FRENCH PRISON COLONY FROM WHICH THERE 1S NO... THANK GOD, MY CONTACT DID NOT FAIL US! THE | BOAT 15 HERE) ANTOINE, JUST AS HE PROMISED z WHEN WE GET TO CAYENNE, UR. “HURRY, MAURICE! THEY'RE NOT FAR BEHINDYMuy DAYS AND FOUR HUNDRED MILES INTO THE AaINL SnD 7 Mruty ORS AND FOUR HUNDRED MALES INTO Tue MADLEMD. [YOU'RE CERTAIN THE WONEY WiLL STL GE d RIVER, SPREADING ITS POWER OF LIFE AND OEATH THROUGH | WHERE YOU HID IT ? AFTER ALL, (71S GEEN Gut THE JUNGLE COUNTRY... LORD, THIS HEAT 1S MURDEROUS! A FEW WEFKS OF THs AND FEEL READ 7O ROT! HOW MUCH FURTHER MUST. A GO, My FRIEND? NOT FAR, MAURICE. JUST THE . OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER. TWO YEARS OM THAT MISERABLE ISLAND... BUT OF COURSE / I'M PROBABLY THE ONLY HUMAN EYER TO SET FOOT WHERE / FIX us A RAFT 6O WE | | T DON'T KuoW, ANTONE, THE MORE C SEE OF THIS ACCURSED CAN GET ACROSS. ge] | SUNGLE, THE MORE L WONDER IF WY AMOUNT OF MOREY 13 WORTH IT... LEAVE ANY TIME YOU LIKE! ONLY REASON 1 OFFERED TO SPLIT WITH YOU AT ALL IS USE YOU HAD THE CONTACT WHO COULD GeT J US OFF THE ISLANDS - ARYGORIA... AN ANACONDA! BIG SNAKE. NATIVES BELIEVE FYIRE GODS... SCAREDNTOINE. PICKED UP THE NEARBY AXE DROPPED BY GOOD LORD! LOOK AT THAT THINGY IT MUST BE. "AMON AND BROUGHT IT SLAMWNG COWN SAY- TWENTY FEET LONG? PERHAPS WE SHOULD NOT Fe eee eehraee AGELY TOWARD THE MASSIVE SERPENT. TM NO NATIVE, MAURIGE., THOSE THINGS AREN'T GODS TO me! THE GIANT SNAKE SOUIRMED AND WRITHED, HOPELESSLY IMPALEO, AS ANTOINE OREW HIS GLEAMING MACHETE HIS FACE SUDDENLY THAT OF A TWISTED MADMAN, HOW, MAURICE, WATCH REAL FUN! “TAKING CARE TO AVOID THE THRASHING, PAINWRACKED WORDS AND PLEAS FELL ON DEAF GARS AS: BODY OF THE HUGE ANACONDA, ANTOINE BEGAN SLASH- ANTOINE TOYED WITH HIS SADISTIC PLEASURES ING MANIACLY AT His TRAPPED PREY... FOR NEARLY AN HOUR BEFORE THE ANACONDA SHUDPERED, AND THEN WAS STILL. DIRTY, FILTHY SNAKE! I ONLY WiSH YOU COULD SCREAM, YOU ROTTEN MONSTER! ANFOINE! DON'T BE INSANE... ALL IT WAS TRYNIG TO DO WAS GET AWAY, | ANTOINE... =, ” Ae = wag BLAST IT/ DEAD ALREADY’ SOMETIMES: THEY LAST _ALL Day IF YOU'RE CAREFUL AND BOT JUST RIGHT, HE DIDN'T NOTICE THE GLARE OF CONSUMING HATRED IN THE EYES OF RAMOW“THE NEXT MORNING, WITH THE RAET COMPLETED, THE THREE MEN SLOWLY MADE THEIR WAY ACROSS THE AIGHTY AMAZON -.. JU6T_HOW MUCH MONEY 15 THERE, ANTONE? ‘YOUIVE OFTEN SAID THERE'S ENOUGH TO PUT You OW EASY STREET FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, BUT. WHICH JUST TERMINATED! SE® THOSE FISH. IM THE RIVER? BEAUTIFUL, AREW'T THEY? NATIVES: CALL THEM BY MANY NAMES/ CARIBE...PERAI... TIGERFISH ... AND SOMETIMES For A FEW GRIEF SECONDS MAURICE STRUGGLED IN THE WATER, HIS SCREAMS PIERCING THE HOT JUNGLE AIR (AS HUNDREDS OF SMALL, SHARP TEETH SLASHED AT His BODY! THEN, SILENCE AGAIN PREVAILED AS A POOL OF RED SPREAD SLOWLY ACROSS THE WATER... ALL.RIGHT, YOU GAWKING \ — SAVAGE! GET THis RAFT ‘ACROSS THE RIVERSSHORTLY AFTER CROSSING THE RIVER, ANTOINE AND AMON REACHED THE BASE OF A LARGE TREE, THE FRENCHIAN FELL TO HIS KNEES, ALMOST ATTACKING THE EARTH IN HIS GREEDY FERVO} N, CMON! HA! HERE IT 157 TWO YEARS IN THAT STINKING HOLE, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!AANTOINE FELL TO THE GROUND, PARALYZED BY THE OFADLY STING-OF THE SCORPION. UNABLE TO MOVE, HE FOUND ME COULD ONLY SPEAK. THERE {5 NO CURE FOR THE SITE OF THE SCORPION, SENOR, IN A FEW MOMENTS IT WILL ALL BE OVER { THERE... THERE IS ONE WAY, SENOR, [F YOU WANT TO LIVE SO BADLY, BUT I DON'T THIN NO) MO! THERE MUsT 6E SOME WAY... YOu! YOUR PEOPLE PRACTICE THAT VOODOO STUFF, SURELY YGU CAN SAVE ME SOMEHOW. I DONT WANT TO DIE. DON'T TRY TO GUESS WHAT T THINK! JUST 20 IT! YOU CAN HAVE HALF, NO, Ade THE MONEY! JUST OC SOMETHING QUICKLY, 1 A FEW MOMENTS, RAMON HAD BUILT A SMALL FIRE, AND BEGAN A STRANGE DANCE AROUND IT, HE WAS CHANTING SOMETHING, BUT ANTOINE COULD NOT UNDER- ‘STAND THE WORDS... MAN IS OF TWO PARTS, SENOR, ONE PART OF ‘YOU Is DYING... CANNOT SAVE THAT. BUT I can SAVE THE OTHER PART... IF THAT IS YOUR WISH. Bur anTone COULD NO LONGER SPEAK. AS THE BLACKNESS DESCENDED, HE KNEW HE WAS DYING. |‘Teere WAS A BURST OF SUNLIGHT, ANTOINE HAD NO FEELING OF AWAKENING, OF OPERING HIS EYES. HE WAS SUDDENLY AWAKE, LYING ON THE GROUND, STARING AT HIS FORTUNE His BRAIN TOLD HIS ARM TO REACH OUT AND GROB THE GUN, BUT THERE WAS NO RESPONSE. WAS HE. STILL PARALYZED? NO... HE COULD MOVE HIS HEAD EASILY ENOUGH. PERHAPS His ARMS WERE PINNED DOWN...HE TWISTED His HEAD AROUND... HE FELT SEARING, UNBELIEVABLE PAIN AS THE KNIFE WAS BURIED IN HIS BACK, STAKING HIM HELPLESSLY TO THE GROUND, THEN HE SAW RAMON... ANTOINE WISHED VERY MICH THAT HE COULD SCREAM. ag ZCUN THAT PIERCED THE SILENCE WAS A MISS ro He Looker suicHTiy To THE RIGHT AND saw HIS GUN, WITHIN BASY REACH. HE KNEW THEN THAT ALL He Hab To DO WAS GRAB THE PisToL, KILL THAT STUPID RAMON, WHO FOR SOME REASON HAD HELPED HIM, AND TARE OFF, MONEY AND ALLY SuOPENLY HE KNEW WHY HE COULDN'T MOVE His ARMS...HE HAD NONE, SUDDENLY HE KNEW WHAT WHAT RAMON HAD MEANT ABOUT TWO PARTS OF LUFE. ONE WAS MAN, BUT THE OTHER WAS... ANIMAL! THEN, THE AIR WAS FILLED WITH A ‘SWISHING GOUND AND THE BRIGHT GLINT OF STEEL, FANDING,, STARINC NOW THERE'S A SPLIT PERSONALITY THAT REALLY GOT SPLIT! BUT DONT YOU SPLIT UNTIL YOU CATCH ay NEXT BIT OF SLITHERING: ‘Sit -BUT THE ONLYEallecter’s Edition 72 Wreoried have -@ PE MISSING THESE MACABRE MAGS, MONSTERS? There's still a chance if you hurry! Clip the coupon below and send for all those back issues you're missing . . . And to make certain you never lose out again, send in the other coupon for a scription to EERIE! GET BACK ISSUES WITH THIS COUPON! GET 1-YEAR SUB, WITH THIS COUFON! 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YOU AGREE I WAVE TALENTS PERHAPS yOu'D 6E INTERESTED IN ANOTHER KIND, OF DEAL THE SUCCESS YOU SO RICHLY | DESERVES THE DEVAS SATAN S MEPHISTOPHELES! eur...BUT DIDN'T atean ite E WOULON'T SELL mY SOULS INCONVENIENCE ME FOR NOTHING? | DRAG ME TO THIS WRETCHEDLY ARCTIC CLIMATE FoR A WHIMZ ADMIT TO OWE WEAKNESS . VANITY! VERY PENETRATING OF YOU, sik! ... AND FOOLPROOF! YOUR, SOUL REMAINS YOUR OWN! IF YOU DO ME Justice, YOUR FUTURE 1S ASSURED! HOW CAN YOU FAIL CONSIDERING YOUR SUBIECT, EH? VERY WELL, SIR, Z AGREE! BUT T MUST WARN YOU! SHALL BE VERY DEMANDING} fu tHe Days THAT FOLLOW JERRY HACKER TOTALLY SUCCUMBS TO THE CHALLENGE CUTTING HIMSELF OFF FROM AGENT, CLIENTS, FRIENDS, EVEW HON... JUST BEAR WITH ME WR. HACKER! 1S AFEW MORE DAYS, SWEET- | THIS A SITTING OR HEART...THEN TLL BE ABLE / A TELEPHONE " TOGIVE YOU THE WHOLE TALKATHON = AGREED SAND mY DEAR NS TRICKS OR HACKER! SHENNANIGANS & BARGAIN with wy Sout? / 's A BARGAIN! 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IF you BOTTLE, you BE BACK HERE WANT ANOTHER, SOGET IT--AND IN FIVE minutes / SOMETHING'S AAOVING OUT THERE =A LOG OR SOME- THING. NO, IT'S. SOMEONE SwWiMt- MING, REAL FAST. &3 LSAT ALONE... WAIT ING FOR HIM TO COME OUT OF THE WATER AND GO AWAY... ONLY HE PIPNIT LEAVE... AND HE DIDN'T HAVE, A STrTcH ON! OOP EVENING. MIGHT Z INQUIRE ABOUT MY WHERE- ABOUTS, MISS= AND AMGHT I TROUBLE YOU FOR THE LOAN OF THAT BLANKET? TLOST MY ) WHERE DID YOU SWIM SUIT J START FROM? IN THE YOU GOT A BREAKERS.) BOAT OUT THERE F But Before HE THE BLUFF... HEY! WHAT'S THE BiG IDEA? GIMME THAT BLANKET! ANSWERED GEORGE CAME RUNNING POWN FROM| HE HASN'T ANY BATHING PERMIT AME TO INTRODUCE TL MusT ADMIT THAT GEORGE STOOP UP TO JHE BIG MAN... YOU'RE COMING WITH US THEN, FELLA. HE'S PROB ABLY ONE OE THOSE RUSSIAN SPIES FROM A SUBMARINE , STARTYOU HAVE AN OF COURSE, WHAT AUTOMGBILE?, DO I LOOK LIKE, PALL REVERE OR SOMETHING? WITHOUT A WORE, THE MAN CLIMBED INTO GEORGE'S CAR BND DROVE AWAY. THEN JHE Guy LOOKED AT GEORGE, AND IT WAS LIKE FELT COLD ALL OVER... ONCE HE WAS OUT OF SIGHT T SCREAMED TILL I THOUGHT TID HEMORRHAGE OR SOME- THING, THAT BROUGHTSEORGE OF IT. out GEORGE COULON'T MOVE... I THEN THE MAN WENT OVER: TO GEORGE AND TOOK ALL HIS CLOTHES AND PUT THEM ON HIMSELF! ‘WE WALKED ALL THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY PATROL. ONLY HE HAON'T SEEN THE WAY THE MAN HAD LOOKEP AT GEORGE. WHEN I THINS ABOUT IT, TCOULD JUST DIE! COUNTS woercegengrons AY bs finn f ep at : z TOME Decmp TO Cato Is THIS THE WARLOCK GALLERY? YES._MR_ WARLOCK IS OUT OF TOWN. TM MILO FABIAN. iF YOU HAVE ANY- THING TO SELL, SHOW IT . EBOALL THE BUYING. AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, WE SPECIALIZE IN MOPERNS,THEN WHAT WAS IT yOu. WISHED? TWO REM- BRANDTS, A RAPHAEL, A TITIAN AND SOMETHING BY VAN GOGH. ALSO.A GOYA, AN EL GRECO, A GAUSUIN, L DONT SUPPOSE THeRe's A WaY OF GETTING, “THE LAST SUPPER! 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