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of the boredom one feels at funerals
especially when it's one's OWN! Plus "Eternal Thirst!"
ries.

THE VAMPIRESS STALKS

You

are seventeen years old, Sandralee Devens, and

to find out what it is
be alone! You are lonely, pregnant, and
a vampiress stalks you for your BLOOD!

you are only beginning

like to

"VAMPIRELLA ridicules the great Dracula legend!

/

Recently have received my

Vampirella Membership Card
and VAMPIRELLA badge. am
proud to declare that
am
member #886. was extremely pleased to get such a fine
badge it is, in fact, simply
BEAUTIFUL. Now, all that has
to be done is to get a poster
I

must say you certainly

tied together a lot of loose
unhappy coinci-

I ends! The
dence

of

the

name Drakulon

with the familiar Count Dracula is explained by claiming

himself

Dracula

named

after

his planet. More, a lot of folklore is tied in nicely. Well

done.

One word

of

of you.
As for issue #18,

passing, though
have no
doubt Drakulon as you've
I

painted it is suffering from a

blood drought, droughts just
kill off entire planets.

can't

MICHAEL TIERSTEIN
Brooklyn, N.Y.

T^V

They can if they are alien droughts and the one on

Drakulon certainly was.

VAMPIRELLA #18 was

great. The front cover was the
best the magazine has ever
had. "Dracula Still Lives" was
spooktacular.

was abI

DANMcGINNIS

warning:

At least once you forgot that

Drakulonians have wings. In

it

solutely FANTASTIC!!! All the

stories were good, but
feel
the two best were: "Dracula
Still Lives" and "The Dorian
Gray Syndrdme." Keep up the
good work.

Aliquippa, Pa.

LA
A.A

poster of

me

is

now

available from Warren. Check

the back cover.

my ad on

VAMPIRELLA #18 wasn't

good as past issues for two

reasons. One: T. Casey Brennan can never compete with
the fantastic scripts Archie
Goodwin turns out for the series. It's very annoying to see
Conrad Van Helsing and Pendragon mouth long lines of
information we've already
read about in past issues.
Reason two: There wasn't a
story drawn by Jose

single

Bea,

my

favorite artist.

SCOTT SILVA
Santa Maria,

as

Calif.

This is to let you know how

happy am with the GoodwinGonzales team.
notice in
I

#18 that Goodwin

gone-

is

only temporarily,
hope. Belatedly or not
wish to pen
my congratulations to Mr.
I

Goodwin for the marvelous

work he has done with VAMPIRELLA. The relationship between Adam and his father,
the character of Pendragon,
the Lovecraftian Chaos mythos, the ironic plot twists, and
best of all, some lovely dialogue. If Mr. Goodwin is gone
permanently,
for one will
certainly miss him.
Mr. Brennan's story passes
muster on the resurrection of
Dracula alone. Anyone in love
with Vampire lore holds a special place in his or her
well,
not perhaps heart... in the
marrow of their bones, for the
Count. Vampires may come
and go, but Dracula goes on
forever. He is the king. found
Mr. Brennan's exposition of
the Count's past interesting,
but a bit trite. Must ALL the
problems of comics' characters spring from unrequited
love? Surely Dracula is above
all this?
was relieved at the
end of the story: let us keep
the Count his powerful, arrogant, EVIL self. No psychoanalysis, no explanations, just
motiveless malignancy. God
forbid Dracula turn into Bar-

VAMPIRELLA beats out

Creepy and Eerie by a mile.
Vampi #18 was great! Keep
Dracula around for a few issueshe sure makes the stories more thrilling. Next to
your story, "Kali" and "Won't
Get Fooled Again" were terrific. "Song For A Sad Eyed
Sorceress" was fair, and the
"Dorian Gray Syndrome" was
okay. Cover by Enrich was
incredible.

PHILLASKOWSKI
Clark, N.J.

"Song For A Sad Eyed Sorceress," VAMPIRELLA #18

was

Collins.

And, of course, a word about

Mr. Gonzales's art. He is the
ONLY artist for the VAMPI-

RELLA saga. love his lean,

graceful people and the detail
I

a fine issue.

"Won't Get Fooled Again"

nabus

Your last issue was almost

perfect. Except for "Kali" and

had to be one of the best stories in your magazine. Auraleon is among the finest artists Warren ever had, so is
Jose Gonzales! Speaking of
fine artists, now that Uncle
Creepy has Reed Crandall
working for him again, why
don't you use him?
would like to see more
werewolves and vampires in
your magazine. Why haven't
you ever created a story about
King Kong or Godzilla?
I

DAVID INGLE
Morris, Minn.

W\_We would if more of our

fans would go "ape" over
them.
Archie Goodwin may not be
currently available to chroniyour adventures, but T.
cle

of his settings.

Congratulations and
all the good work.

keep

Casey Brennan

is

LLOYD ROSE
Charlotte, N.C.

must congratulate you on

your magazine, Vampi. Creepy
and Eerie are marvelous, but
I

you are just wonderful. Until

next issue, keep up the good
work.

TIM STEPPE
City, Tenn.

VAMPIRELLA #18

is

my

issue I've read. am writing to say

enjoyed it very
much and fell in love not only
with yourself, but Dracula as
the same,
first

well. You two are

yet different.

really
By the way, Vampi,
loved your cover! It made you
look beautiful! Even more
I

than the inside did.

The story "Dracula

Still

is so unusual.
have
never read anything so haunt-

Lives"

"Jose Gonzalez is the greatest artist of

Leonardo,
A! Guiliani of

N.J.

al!

time," writes

Scenes from Gonzalez* much

acclaimed VAMPIRELLA story, "Dracula

the enthusiasm is well warranted.

Still

Lives," proves

frightening, and
same time, tender.
ing,

an ac-

The VAMPIRELLA story

#18 was really wretched.

at

the

THERESA MUCLAYK
New York, N.Y.

in

All

sorts of information that could

given within

have been

Johnson

NOT

ceptable substitute.

up

the

story was jammed needlessly into wordy thought balloons.

Mr. Brennan does not seem
to appreciate the artistic val-

ue

of

SIMPLICITY. Compare

the clean plotting of #12 and

#13 with the muddiness of
#18. Goodwin's Dracula was
a straightforward character.
Brennan's is not more subtle
or more complex, just more
incoherent. A proud Dracula

who sins because he adheres

to "the old ways" (#16) is impressive. A Dracula who falls
victim to his own concern for
ecology (what a dismal attempt at relevance) is just an
embarrassment.
Please get a better writer
work on your stories as
soon as possible.

to

THOMAS OCHILTREE
Cambridge, Mass.

*VNo

sooner said than

done, Tom, baby.

"VAMPIRELLA No. 18 was great!"

it back, relax, and once again let the

squeaking doors of your mind open
us in another issue of
you'll be as exwe are not only over the artwork and stories we have for you this
issue, but the mighty talents that produced them, also.
Kicking off this twenty-first issue is a tale about drugs
and women's liberation in the old west. "Mindbender" is
the first installment of a two-page featurette replacing the
old "Vampi's Feary Tales." Simitar in context to the old
Feary Tales, our new feature is a short, two page story in
color spanning both the inside front and inside back covers. This issue's tale comes from the warped imagination of
writer/artist Dube! So what more can we say, other than
it's a "Mindbender!"
Our VAMPIRELLA story this issue should hold quite a
few surprises for everybody. The dramatic new twists in
the life of our blood-craving heroine are brought to us
through the talents of a new scripter to the pages of this
magazine, Chad Archer! Chad, while new to Vampi, is by no
means a novice at the typewriter. Already he has earned a
reputation in the comics industry as one of the finest writers around. But then, one has to be good to carry on in the
shadow of such fine VAMPIRELLA scripters as Archie
Goodwin and T. Casey Brennan. Artist Jose Gonzalez does
his usual excellent art job on Archer's story "Slitherers of
the Sand!" page .
Writer/artist Esteban Maroto is back again this issue,
continuing his "Tomb of the Gods" series. This trip's tale,
"A Legend," concerns itself with
what one must give up to achieve
goals in life. It begins on page 26.
VAMPIRELLA regular, Luis Garcia teams up again this issue with
writer Steve Skeates on "Paranoia >" P a 8 e 38 Luis and Steve
i
CtbTmBI last combined efforts on "Love

Sias you join

VAMPIRELLA! We hope
cited as

Issue #18 was great (as always). The cover by Enrich

was the most terrifying and
beautiful cover ever done.
SanJulian is always good, but
never knew Enrich was such
a master.
Enough about the fantastic
cover, and on the stories.
I

Vampi,
never knew how
good you were until the inside story when you spared
I

Dracula.
I

Gray Syndrome."

in

C.L.
Jacksonville, Fla.
latest issue of

was, to put

it

VAMPI

bluntly-

lousy. The VAMPIRELLA series is getting monotonous.

have considered the sexual

connotations of Vampirism
i.e. one body penetrating the
other the use of physical
force and hypnotism all
things associated with sex and
love.

have criticized
For years
the lack of sex or romance in

fit the separticular idiocies:

out of context to

Now

The soap opera tone of the

latest story. Vampi moaning
over the fact she is unworthy
to kill Dracula, and Dracula's
is just like Superman's). The worst part
about it is that Dracula himself is being cheapened. The
invincible will the commanding appearance, the cold cruel
attitude, and the atmosphere
of terror that he conveyed,
all have been ignored or lessened to the point where they
aren't 'effective anymore. His
once invincible will is now
shaky and unsure. He no long-

origin (which

er strikes terror, but

now

in-

vokes pity. This is disappointing, even in the interest of

creating

new

story lines.

DAVE ORRILL
Hastings-on-the-Hudson, N.Y.

stories, and
gratified to see that oth-

most vampire

was

the same when they

finally published VAMPIRELLA.
even think your stories
could (and should) be more
sexual than they are. For
those who don't believe in
love, they canstill read Creepy
felt

and

Eerie.

LINDA MAXWELL
Lafayette, Ind.

The Dracula legend is now

being ridiculed and twisted
ries.

the element of love

many "VAMPIRELLA" stoThese critics can not

ries.

ers

May your fangs never dull.

The

was quite surprised to

issue #18 some letters

in

criticizing

rest of the stories were

espeas usual, superb, but
cially enjoyed the "Dorian

The

RELLA

see

The cover

to

VAMPIRELLA

outasite!! It was
beautifully brilliant with a lot
of colors contained within
that are not usually found on
covers. And it was so realis-

#18 was

FANTASTIC!!!
Now onto its contents which
have mixed feelings about.
"Song For A Sad Eyed SorI

ceress" was surely the best

story in a Warren mag for
some time. And I'm not kidding. The story seemed to be
placed on a much higher adult
level giving it a certain air of
sophistication. And the art
was definitely Garcia at his
best. Really a masterpiece
and definitely a contender for
the 1972 Warren Awards.
The second highlight of the
issue had to be "The Dorian
Gray Syndrome" with "Dracula Still Lives" coming in
third.

am

very sorry to say

BOBPINAH

just

of all time. His work

was superb in "Dracula Still
Lives.' "Won't Get Fooled
Again" was second best, and
"the Dorian Gray Syndrome"
was third.
AL GIULIANI

artist

Sayreville, N.J.

VAMPIRELLA #18 was

tastic.

liked
I

gave me chills. Maroto's

"Tomb Of The Gods" was pretty good, too.

JOHN FERNANDES
Brooklyn, N.Y.

Leonardo, N.J.

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metal, iigh quality) AND the Official Membership Card! JOIN

VAMPI (ELLA FAN CLUB!

TODAY

fanEnrich's front

felt like hanging

cover and
it
up. "Won't Get Fooled
Again" was fantastic, and it

H9SH

tic.

Continued success.
I

began reading your mag, because it is excellent. You are

great, Vampi.
Issue #18 was terrific!!!
Jose Gonzales is the greatest

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a twelve-page masterwork by writer Don McGregor,

more than ably illustrated by the
first

issue

superb

Artist

VAMPIRELLA!

is

craftsman,

Felix

Mas.

Page 62.

Gonzalez,

Jose

whose artwork continues to breathe life

into the seductive huntress from the stars,

And just to give you a taste of

in store for you in
VAMPIRELLA #22, there's a
sneak-tease preview on page 74.
So until next issue.
what we have

THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY

"SONG OF A SAD-EYED SORCERESS!"

In concept, "Song of a
Sad-Eyed Sorceress" was intended to be an atmospheric, lyrical suspense story that
examined one fringe aspect
of (dare we mention it?) sex-

ual politics. Luis Garcia's art-

work certainly lends itself to

establishing mood, a constant that holds throughout
the length of the story. There
also a quality of poetic
lyricism in its execution
This sense of lyricism is
usually reserved for works
is

of fantasyand

perhaps seems

out of sync for what

is

contemporary horror

story. Certainly, tnere is

more horror than fantasy in
a situation that finds a love

sequence wherein one of the

members of the embrace
turns from human warmth
to serpentine texture; yet
the build-up procedures and
page lay-outs suggest a
stronger leaning toward fantasy than events transpiring
to result in horror. This, in
turn, lends an entirely different outlook in over-all ap-

pearance

don McGregor

basi-

only receiv-

Dear Vampi:
Enclosed

is

cally a

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VAMPIRE. THEY CALL HERTHAT NOW, THOUGH ONCE IT WAS NOT SO. ONCE SHE WAS AS ANY OTHER, DRINKING LIFE FROM
THE RIVERS OF BLOOD THAT CRISS-CROSSED HER HOME PLANET OF DRAKUU3N. BUT AS THOSE RIVERS DIED, A STARSHIP CARRIED HER ACROSS THE GALAXIES TO OUR WORLD - EARTH. BEFRIENDED NOW BV THE VAN HELSINGS, WHO ONCE
GROUNDS OF VAN HELSING MANSION. AND MEMORIES RETURN TO THE

PURSUED HER, SHE WALKS MOODILY THROUGH THE

GIRL CALLED...

WHY DO you
BROOD, VAMPIRELLA?
ARE YOU NOT HAPPY

HERE?

--^1

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I||

PROLOGUE BY

T.

CASEY BRENNAN

HOW CAN I BE HAPPY,

PENDRAGON, IN A WORLD
IS SO STRANGE TO ME ?

THAT

THE I/AN HELSINGS HAVE BEEN

KIND TO US, BUT HOW CAN I
FORGET HOW DIFFERENT I

AW FROM THEM AND FROM

YOU?

EVIL? YOU TOO,

PENDRASON ? CAN'T ANY
OF /OU HERE ON EARTH
UNDERSTAND WHAT BLOOOLUST

DOESTOA DRAKULONIANPAND
DRACULA WAS DOUBLY CURSED,
SINCE HE WAS A HELPLESS
PAWN OF THE MAD GOD
CHAOS.'

>

/" A
!

WILLING
PAWN, I'D SAy.

"NO/ NOT A WILLING

WAS THE GO0DESS\

PAWN.' IT

FROM THE

STARS,

KNOWN

ONLY AS THE CONJURESS*

WHO FIRST TAUGHT HIM THE
WAYS OF THE OCCULT/ HE

'

WANTED TO USE HIS POWERS

TO AID OUR WORLD.' IT WAS
ONLY BY ACCIDENT THAT HE
FELL UNDER THE INFLUENCE
OF THE MAD, BANISHED SOD

"NOW

HE SEEKS TO ATONE

FOR THE

EVIL HE HAS
UNWITTINGLY DONE .'THE

CHAOS/

V^_

1
I

CONJURESS HAS FOUND HIM "1

AGAIN AND TOGETHER THEY
TRAVEL FROM STRANGE WORLD
TO STRANSE WORLD, AS HE
SUFFERS ORDEAL AFTER

FORGIVE

ME

VAAAPIRELLA.'IT

ONLY THAT I
FEAR FOR yoUR
IS

SAFETY.'

ORDEAL...THATISTHE
DAMNATION HE HAS CHOSEN/"

ens

S "DRACULA

STILL

LIVES VAMPIRELLA018

VAMPIRELLA.I SEE I \
CAN SAY NOTHING TO
CHANGE YOUR MINP '
BUT I SHALL BE SO
AFRAID FOR.

you.' I

KNOW

youR POWERS
ARE

VAST...

BUT yOU ARE

STILL.. .ONLY
A GIRL...

NO, NOT COMPLETELY-- FOR THEY HAVE

FLE6TINGLV TOUCHED NOT ONLY THE GIRL FROM
DRAKULON-- BUT ALSO THOSE STANDING AT HER
POINT OF DEPARTURE!

DESOLATION. TRY TO IMAGINE IT.

PERHAPS YOU THINK OF THE VAST VOIDS

OF SPACE. MAYBE YOU ENVISION!

BOMBED-OUT STREETS AFTER SOME
SREAT WAR. PERHAPS
IS

THAT

WUR CONCEPTION

OF AN ADDICT'S SOUL

BUT YOU CANNOT IMAGINE DESOLATION BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THE
i

LANDSCAPE ON WHICH FIVE SEMICONSCIOUS FIGURES NOW FIND

THEMSELVES.

YOU HAD, YOU WOULD 7

NOT BE ALIVE TO TELL /
OF IT...
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ART BY JOSE GONZALEZ

STORY BY CHAD ARCHER

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RELIEVE THE EYE OF SEEING SOFTLY TAN SAND EVERY SECOND
OF EVERY HOUR EVEN THE DIRECTION THEY HAVE COME SOON
LOSES ANY TRACE OF THEIR PASSAGE TO THE SLIGHT BUT

WE'LL HAVE TO
^
FIND FOOD AND SHELTER
IN THE MEANTIME .THOUGH.

A SORT OF SULFUR

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PEOPLE.'

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HAVE BUILT THIS.

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OFF DOWN THE ROAD LIKE SCHOOL

CHILDREN ON AN OUTING, THEIR SPIRITS
RENEWED. AND ALL PAINS AND THIRSTS
SUBMERSED IN THE JO? OF DISCOVERY,

THET SET

VAMPIRELLA.'

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EYES EYES THAT HOLD...

DEEP-SET BLUE

INTELLIGENCE/
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THE VAN HELSINGS.

WONDER
I DO
ABOUT HIM, NOW

BEAR

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THAT HE'S

V CHANGED.

TERRIBLE
IN ITS

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FOR AN INSTANT, THE COMBINED

TOUCH OF VAMPIRE AND
VAMPIRESS IS ALMOST TOO MUCH
FOR A PROUD OLD MAN TO

AND TO/S WAS THE

ARCH-FIEND OF EARTH
FOR SO MANY YEARS...
THE MAN WHO HATED Jf NO

FOR A SECOND, SHE STARTS TO OBEYTO TURN AND HELP CONRAD VAN
HELSINS-BUT THEN SHE REMEMBERS
WHAT SHE LEARNED JUST SCANT
SECONDS BEFORE.

EVEN AS SHE RUNS, HER SOFTLY ROUNDED

FORM SHIFTS, SLIDES OVER

ITSELF--

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to

THROUGH THE LIQUID SNARLS OF

THE BEAST, AND THE BEAT OF
CRUNCHING SAND, SHE HEARS
HER PART? THRUSTING ITSELF
AWAV, ACROSS THE PESERT.

AND AFTER A IONG

"

THEY'VE BSCAPEO.
Wl BUT
STAY TILLIM

I'LL

SURG.

IT IS THEN. IN THE STILLNESS, THAT

VAMPIRELLA HEARS HORROR.'

WHILE, SHE HEARS...

NOTHING

-AND NOT UNTIL SHE ISA SPECK TO THE /MONSTER'S EYES

DOES SHE BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR HER FRIENDS.

pi

WITHOUT FURTHER WORDS, THE FIVESOME BEGINS

TO

WALK ASWN-- ALWAYS HOPING FOR SHADS, FOR

SUSTWENCE... BUT FINDING ONLY THE BLAZING
GLARE OF THE SUN ABOVE, AND THE JARRING GLARE
OF THE SAND BEIOW, CUT EVERY SO OFTEN, NOW, BY
THE DARK TRACK OF THE CREATURE.

ACCORDING TO ADAM VAN HELSING'S WRISTWATCH, ANOTHER

SIX HOURS PASS HOURS MAY SEEM TO MEAN NOTHING ON A
PLANET WHOSE SUN NEVER MCWES FROM OVERHEAD-8UT
HOURS MEAN QUITE A LOT, IN TRUTH....
.

BACK.

BELOW, PENDRAGON WATCHES INTENTLY, ADAM WATCHES

DIMLY, AND HIS FATHER LISTENS All CAUGHT AGAINST
THEIR WILL By THE SRACEFUL BEAUTY AND CHILLING
SHRIEKS OF THE DEADLY DUEL.

AND FORTH THE TIDE OF BATTLE FLOWS

-AND

IT

CARRIES A COMBAT NOT SEEN OUTSIDE

OF DRAKULON

SINCE TIME BBBAM.'

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THERE IS ONLY TIME FOR A SINGLE TEAR TO WELL FROM VAMPIRELLA'S EYE -A TOTAL WASTE
TOTALLY UNSTOPPABLE
AND THEN SHE AND ACTION BECOME ONE.'

"

OF /MOISTURE AND VET

'

SHOCK WAVES OF THE SLUS'S DEATH-THROBS

HAVE NOT EVEN QUIETED BEFORE VAMPIRELLA RUSHES PAST IT.
THE FINAL

HER LESS MOVE MORE SLOWLY THAN BEFORE. SHE

KNOWS THAT NOT EVEN HER UNEARTHLY STAMINA CANT
TAKE MUCH MORE.

r
.

DON'T.

SO

I FH.T FOR
WAS A FORM OF
HOMESICKNESS,
A DESIRE TO BE

FWHAT

WITH

DRACULA WILL
WITH * TO REALMS

UNKNOWN "AND YOU

OTHERS WILL RETURN
YOUR WORLD/

ANOTHER

.OF A

NETHEK-VOIO AGAIN-FALLING,
PLUMMETING TOWARD THE ASTRAL SPHERE ALL
OF THEM NOW CALL ... HOME/
ABRUPTLY, THEY ARE IN THE

PLUNGING,

AND THEN EARTH IS UNDER THEIR FEET- EARTH

PARCELLED AND NAMED THE GROUNDS OF VAN HELSING
MANSION.

CRDiCs

W&&.

DR. JEKYLL &

DRACULA
This is one of those classics that everyone makes
films
about, but nobody
reads. Reading the classic
"Dracula" is an experience

and

half and infuriating,

for one sees how relatively
tame the Bela Lugosi version
of "Dracula" was as are
practically all other filmed
a

'Draculas."

Bram Stoker had

certain-

homework, when
this novel was unleashed
in 1897 he put every trapping of lore and bane and hex
ly

done

his

imaginable, into the book.

Stoker fully developed the
character of the Prince of
Darkness, intermingling and
finalizing every aspect of
what we now consider to be
a vampire's character. The

and wolfbane and silver bullets and

stakes, the "fact" that no
vampire can enter your
abode unless you let him in,

fear of crosses,

the sleeping in the coffin

bit,
the hairy palms ... all
of
these aspects weren't
really
used in "vampire"
novels and yarns until Bram
Stoker's book. Some aspects
were old Middle European
superstitions, and lore about
one historical Count Drakula
of the middle ages, but much
of

it

was Stoker's own

im-

agination.

They

really

ought to

film

"Dracula" right the gaunt,

cold undead man
with the bushy eyebrows
and the physical strength
of 20 men, who can turn into
an animal at will, and com-

clammy

mand obedience
flies,

night.

of all that

prowls or slithers by
Quite a character!

Read ye this classic and

daydream away.

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Airmont, 75$ 126 pages

Robert Louis Stevenson

proved with this book that a
good novel doesn't have to
be a long one. A slim and
easy to read and engrossing
tation, with

movie and TV adapsuch actors as

Here, on one LP record is

most of the original historymaking "War of the Worlds"
broadcast of Halloween eve,
1938. That broadcast by Orson Welles and his Mercury
Theatre troupe literally scared the bejabbers out of thou-

John Barrymore, Frederic

March and Jack Palance

sands of gullible radio listeners, inspiring nationwide

tale,
play,

it's

inspired

many

from time to time essaying

panic and mass-hysteria.

the dual title role(s). The

book's title became a standard term to describe a split
personality,
before the
Freud-coined psychological
term "schizophrenia" caught

Mars, it seemed, was attacking the world, and there was

no way to repel the hordes
gas-spewing, heat ray
brandishing, intelligent, malevolent, conquest-bent, Martian octopus critters.
Of course, it was all meant
to be a harmless Halloween
radio prank, a contemporary
retelling of H.G. Wells's "War
of the Worlds," convincingly concocted by author Howard Koch, under the supervision of the great actor/

on.
"Dr. Jekyll
is

really

one

and Mr. Hyde"

of the first

psy-

chological novels" that bears

any resemblance to the ac-

mind as we now
perceive it. And everyone
knows the great horrific

tions of the

story

of
scientist,

the

gentlemanly

Dr.

Jekyll,

who

concocts strange combinations of drugs, tries them,

and unleashes
up animalistic

all the pentevil

within
him. And everyone knows
that soon the bad self, "Mr.
with-

Hyde," takes over him

out use of the strange potionvery much like descriptions of

maddening and

dangerous "flashbacks that

people who fool around with
so-called "mind" drugs today

What

reportedly experience.

most people don't know

about this strange and weird
1886 novel is how well written it is, particularly in the
extracts of the journal of Dr.
Henry Jekyll, where you
watch his mind disintegrate
before your eyes, ana the

Hyde

"ape-like spite' of Mr.

takes over.

wuacfit

ft.
CHUCK McNAUGHTON

HORROR
&

of

director/gen us, Orson

Welles. But the hoax backfired, and triggered off a
mass panicana scandal within the radio industry. The
resulting publicity catapulted Koch and Welles to Hollywood and to greater creative
glories. Using a little -imagi

ination,

one sees how people

It's an excellent

got scared.
adaptation.

Author Howard Koch in

1967 wrote a book about
the whole story, "The Panic
Broadcast," including newspaper clippings and the original script. Following the
script along with the record,
one finds only a couple of
minor omissions from the
complete show, made so it
fit on one 50 minute

could

record. It's a fine bit of trivia for nostalgia buffs, fans

of old time radio, students
of drama, H.G. Wells and Or-

son Welles aficionados, amateur anthropologists, and

Martian octopi.

Dick Jacobs

Orch

Coral, Stereo,

$5.75

you want an LP albumgood horror movie

music, this is it. Arranger/
conductor Dick Jacobs is
faithful to the 14 soundtrack themes. No lazying it
up with any of that meandering jazz stuff Mr. Jacobs respects the composers' intentions, and energetically plays the creaky
dissonances and shuddering
tremolos as they were
If

ful

of

written, but with thicker

orchestration. And rattling
chains.
Among the film-musics this
album immortalizes are;
"Son of Dracula," "This Island Earth," "The Mole People," "House of
Frankenstein," "Horror of Dracula,"

"The Deadly Mantis," and

all

three of the Lagoon Creature

films. This reviewer's favorite cut is the queasily melodic theme from' "The Incredible
Shrinking
Man."

The term "haunting beauty"

may best be bestowed upon
it.

This album was recorded

about

decade ago, and

among the
posers

horror film comrepresented on it,

is
a "new" fellow named
Henry Mancini. Yes; THE
Henry Mancini. Here are
his themes from "Tarantula,"
and "The Creature Walks
Among Us." One wonders if
his great hit song, "Moon

didn't first germiin his head as "Lagoon

River," or somesuch.
Now to the next aspect-

River,"

nate

corny

humor. There's

pretty clever batch of it on

the album jacket notes and
the intros penned by Mort
Goode, and narrated brightly in the "voices" of Boris
Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre by one Bob McFadden. A pleasantly hokey ex-

ample

MR.HYDE.C I
-

THEMES FROM
MOVIES

Audio Rarities

LPA 42355 $5.98

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Reviews By

CSW

THE WAR OF
THE WORLDS

MR. HYDE

by Bram Stoker
Airmont, 75$ 317 pages

(in

Lorre's

voice):

"Tarantula music eats some

people up aliv*e!" Urrrp.

ART AND STORY BY ESTEBAN MAROTO

HAVE YOU NOT HEARD

OF ALTIK THE WARRIOR WHOSE NAME IS
LEGEND IMMORTAL T

AT\

HIS SWORP SHATTEREP

BLOW, ALTIK REACTS
WE FIRST
WITH CHARACTERISTIC PAfJIC

WELL THEN .SUPERIOR ONE.'

ALLOW ME TO PAV VOL!
PROPER HOMAGE.

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32

THE VAIKM/B CARRIES FIRST

THE GIRL TO THE
FARTHEST CORNER OF A
SERENE PASSION- BRAS
UNIVERSE. ALTIK IS STUNNEP,
YET FLICKERING EYES
CONCEIVE SUNS, MOONS-.
THE VERY FIRMAMENT...
AS FARLA'S SENSUOUS FACE.

ALTIK, THEN

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WOPEN HAS CHOSEN YOU,

ALTIK, BECAUSE VOU ARE

IT

THE GOPS SEEK A

DEFENDER IN THEIR NAME.
YOU WILL TASTE THE IMMORTALITY OF LEGEND, SO
THAT THE SOPS MIGHT

SEEMEP AS THOUGH

THE PEOPLE WERE

MERE PUPPETS BESIDE
HIM. AIPEP By THE GOPS,

ION.

NEVER

THEV PRESENTED HIM

WITH A HOUSE.ENORMOUS
BANQUETS, UNLIMITED
PRAISE. AND A SWORP
OF SOLIP GOLP. ALTIK
ACCEPTEP ALL /N THE
WOPEN.

ALTIK RETURNED TO
THE NORSE LANDS.AND

SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIS SUGGEST-

NAME Op

HE MURPEREP SEVERAL
TRUSTING. FELLOW THIEVES,
AND WAS PROCLAIMED,
/l.
A CHAMPION.

PIE.

V
ALTIK THE
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HAVE YOU NOT HEARD OP
WARRIOR, WHOSE NAME IS LE6ENP IMMORTAL 7

AlT/K FOLLOWED

WOPEN'S INSTRUCT-

IONS. CHOKING

DOWN

VOMIT, HE BATHEP
IN THE PRAGONS

^"rf*V4 BLOOD. AMP THE

*/&/*> X PEOPLE CHEEREP,

A DOCILE PET (BUT OF

MOST UNPLEASANT
APPEARANCE) WAS

A
TRANSPORTED FROM
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ASGARP TO EARTH. IT
GRAZED IN THE FARM1|
F/ELPS ANP PROVE THE
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TO THEIR CHAMPION.

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HE JOURNIEP

INTO COUNTLESS

OTHER ADVENTURES, ANP

EVER BY HIS SIDE WAS
FARLA. GIVING HIM LOVE,

COURA6E, STRENGTH.

WO PEN ." HE

"CELEBRATE
CRIEP REPEATEDLY. 'WORSHIP

THE AESIR OF ASGARP. FOR

T STRIKE IN THEIR NAME/"

BUT ONE PAY

ALTIK RECEIVED
NO WORP OFA
TASK SET FOR HIM
HE CRIEP TO THE
GODS ANP THEY
DIP NOT ANSWER

FARLA WAS

NOWHERE TO
BE SEEN. AND

THE HERO FELT

CAST OFF.
ALONE-

dark despair-curses robbed

altik of his senses, he

voyaged into unconsciousness

YOU LIE STILL AS PEATH, WARRIOR
PERHAPS IT IS BEST you PO MOT
YET HEAR WHAT I PREAMT LAST
NIGHT. RAGNAROK HAS COME. THE
AESIR FOUGHT

T HEARD

THE WAR- SHOUTS AND

DEATH- CRIES OF THE GODS. CAN

MS NOtN EXIST WITHOUT THEM f

ARE HUMANS NOW LOST. .OR FREE?

AMONGST

GORHEIM'S ANGER SCRATCHES

PEEPLV INTO CRAG6Y, ICE-HARD
FEATURES AS HE ENTERS THE
HOUSE HE BUILT WITH TWO /RON
HANDS. RETURNED FROM A
HUNTING TRIP IN FAR LANDS, HE
HAS HEARD OF HIS WIPES' NEW
COMPANION.

Mouse n/sht descenp

ep.a flowing curtain
of ice-6loom chill.

moist, nungerin6 lips guipe

Altik back to consciousness,
and for a moment universal
gop- wars anp violent
societies are forgotten as

two lovers are lost in

ONE KISS.

',

^m. Bui

1MMS

YOU NEED ME MORE

THAN EVER NOW,
ARMAGEPDON HAS
CLAIMED THE AESIR,
SUCH CAN BE NO
MORE THAN MEMOR-/
HAUNTING MyTHS
TO SHOW US UO\N.
...

HAVE VOU IVOT NEARP OF ALTIK

THE WARRIOR, WNOSE NAME IS
LEGENP IMMORTAL ?

INN PARK, BREEZESHRIEKING FOREST

JJP'^Bfe ENVELOPEP BOTH

AS THEY mowep
TOWARP THE WEIRP
PEST/NY LV/M6 AHEAP.

HOUSE IS NO
LONGER SAFE FOR
THE LAW IS HARSH
AND FATAL TO A WIFE
WHO TAKES HAND
AGAINST HER MATE.

THIS

WE MUST

FLEE

FROM HERE.
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--.

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'

VOU ARE RUNNING ...THAT IS ALL YOU KNOW! NOTHING

EXISTED BEFORE THI9 MOMENT! THE PAST 15 A BLANKl
THERE IS NO PAST-THERE IS ONLY NOW

ART BY LUIS GARCIA

STORY BY STEVE SKEATES

Slowly, you back away.. .then

suddenly, vou turn and run...

And

it is not until you are

SOME PITTANCE FROM
THE OTHERS THAT YOU HEAR
THE SOUND... A LOW,RUMBLINS

(SUITE

'

You whirl about and see another

SIANT BEAST... AND THIS ONE IS
CHARGING TOWARD YOU...

Frantically, you race

THROUGH THE UNDERBRUSH
"
'

SNARL...

But as you look back

CLIFF EDGE AHEAD

in

horror, you

fail

to see the

You fall ...you scream.. '.and

darkness sets in...

asain the

AND THE NEXT THIN6 YOU KNOW,

YOU'RE BACK WHERE YOU STARTED-

WHATA6AS/
yiWC'MON'
FUNNIEST CAVEMAN
LET'S SEND
I EVER SAW 1
xjfi|| HIM BACK DOWN J

'

"

'

'DID YOU SEE THE

WAY HE PANICKED
WHEN WE SENT THAT

PREHISTORIC ANIMAL

AFTER

HI/HJ

BUT WHAT
WE MAKE
THIS TIME?

WILL

HIM

AND WHAT TIME

PERIOD ARE
WE GOING TO

(i'vegot\
(and loeai
WATCH

..

bffl

THIS' JM.

The creature reaches

into your body. the others
SEE WHAT HE'S DOINS AND
JOIN |N...TWISTINS,TURNIN6,

REARRANGING...
-

SEND HIM TO ?

-^WHAT

/1

CRAZY
DREAM THAT
WA91

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...

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I

HOPE I
DON'T HAVE \

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ONE LIKE THAT

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MAYBE TW/S

IS

WHERE

'THEY SENT ME NEXT!

MAYBE THEY'VE 60T

60METHING HORRIBLE
WAITING FOR ME OUT
THERE i

/those
PREHISTORIC

ANIMALS!

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\ /IT WA5
)

^LOWLY, CAUSIOUSLY, YOU

OPEN THE DOOR...

A DREAM'

WASN'T EVEN
IT HAS
AROUND WHEN TO HAVE
THOSE THINGS
\
BEEN J A
EXISTED ISO THAT

/WAN

COULDN'T HAVE
kBEENREALj

A^HwK

Then, you back away in horror ... and scream , as a trolley car races into your room ,
heading toward youj so unreal, 60 dream-like, and yet it is happening...

1,
IAnd ASAINjTHE darkness comes

SHORT-SHORT

SHOCKER!
David, for
years, had

all

his

MS.

-***

more cobwebs than he'd ever

seen (even counting the ones
he'd seen on TV ghost shows).
He sat down by an ornatelybound leather and metal

"1

clothes trunk,

toppling

a circus tent in

Lilliput.

David had about an hour

before dinnertime, an hour to
study the cobwebs, and how
their tickly snowy gauze felt

when

it

came

in

contact with

his face, especially his nose.

He could stare at the eerie

the shimmering
rainbows that cobwebs became when the light
of the setting sun settled
upon them, as it sneaked
through the boarded-up attic
windows. David was in his
own heaven; he and the cobwebs, and the must, and the
silence, where thoughts of
school and premonitions of
how his parents would scream
when they saw his next
report card did not intrude.
After a minute or two, the
sunlight did not come so
brightly to make the cobwebs
shimmer anymore, and David
turned his attention elsewhere. The attic was darkening, and there were no light
bulbs, so if he were to get
any exploring done, David
must move fast. The trunk
beside him looked interesting. It drew his imagination
to it, and somehow all the
other gadgets and googaws
and packages in the attic
seemed uninteresting. David
imagined himself to be some
sort of movie magician, as he
waved his arms and the cob-

beauty
threads

of
of

webs wherever

his

ART BY RICH BUCKLER

.AWiWl

Mrs. Robinson no less so.

Sputtering giggles began to
creep about the room as Mrs.

Robinson stepped

arms

swept seemed to melt into the

dark air. Straightaway he
unbuckled the leather straps
that held the chest closed.
There were no locks, oddly,
but sure a lot of buckles.
Finally he hefted up the
great, creaking lid.
In the chest were mainly
old clothes, the kind of clothes
that people in movies and TV
shows set in the old days
wear. Though there was no
smell of mothballs, the clothes
were in excellent repair. Da-

how

ling

she'd

call

David's

parents to find out just why

their son never got any sleep,
etc. etc.

Well, the principal certainly

looked stern. David had
never seen him before, and
hoped he never would again.
And the stern principal said

ioIQsibI

dug deeper

in

time he was dragged into the

hall. Mrs. Robinson was cack-

chest.

the
At the very bottom was a huge
old book, with a leather binding. It was heavy, and it took
David a couple of tries to get it
lifted from the trunk.

vid

lightly

her heavy old black shoes,

crept up to David's desk, and
grabbed him by the scruff of
the neck. David managed to
get his eyes open only by the

and

snapping the cobwebs by it, as

if he were Gulliver sitting

down beside

WRITTEN BY CHUCK MclMAUGHTOlM

eleven

never imagined
so many cobwebs could be
one place at one time. Now
he had here, in his own attic,
in

into

The cover of
had embossed in

the book
a

chalky-

from the table after his second helping of ice cream, and
retreated to his room. There
he sat hunched upon his bed
with the great book upon his
knees, not moving save to
turn a page, as he mumbled
beneath his breath the curphrases and foreign
ious
words in the book, over and
over again, until he got them

to old lady Robinson that most

certainly a paddling would be
in order. So he reached in
his desk drawer and pulled

white substance the word,

"SPELLS." David could feel
the book begging, "Read me!"
he spoke to right
"I'll read you,
David lost his track of the
the book, 'Tonight, later, in
my room, after supper." And time, and had only gotten
about half the book commitso David crept down from the
ted to memory when he obattic to his bedroom, which
served how much easier it
was on the third floor of his was to read, when the sun
house, and placed the book
flushed over the pages. The
under his bed. Then he washsun!
ed and went down to watch
David snapped to awaresome TV before supper.
He'd been reading all
At supper, in the family ness. And still on his dressnight!
dining room, David could
were his schoolbooks, with
sense some admonition from er
all his assignments unfinishhis parents to study hard
ed. Darn! It was going to be
coming before even the asanother one of those rotten
paragus would be served, so
school days.
he stopped it before it arIn
the classroom, David
rived by saying he'd had a
had a hard time staying
substitute teacher in school,
awake. His eyelids kept saythat day, who'd made Science
other "Let's jump
interesting, and that he want- ing to each
could
ed to go up to his room that his eyeballs!" and David
gather stamina to
hardly
night and study Science. This
Mrs. Robstatement so pleased his prevent that fight.
mother, that he got a second inson, spindly old Mrs. Robclacking all over
inson,
was
helping of ice cream as
the room in her heavy old
dessert.
And during dessert, David black shoes and accosting
not havbrought up the subject of several students for
their homework.
magic, asking if it was real. ing done
When David's name came
"Bosh," said his father, who resonating through her false
straightaway proceeded to teeth, like a fingernail scrapremember out loud a long ing along a blackboard, David
string of amusing stories had just about decided to let
about David's eccentric great- his eyelids win, and fall asleep.
grandfather, a reputed 'town So he couldn't really be anwarlock," and tales of other noyed; "Shut up, will you,
oddball ancestors, tales which want to get a little rest!" he
only David's mother found said.
amusing.
The class was electrified.
So David excused himself
.

out a huge board with a

handle whittled at one end,
and holes drilled through the
paddle part, so that the air
couldn't slow down the progress of that instrument of
torture as it sped toward an
rump.
juvenile's
offending
And David was forced to place
his hands on the principal's
office wall, and the principal
placed his hands over David's
so David couldn't escape
and then old Lady Robinson
prepared to swing the paddle,

and

And suddenly David spat

out the words, ''REGA FLEXIS
MUR!" and there was a sound
in the air that can be best
"KA-POOF!"
as
described
and when that sound died
away, there was the new
sound of "Chirrrupp! Grand
Chtrruuupp!'
roooak!
there, on the floor was a small
green toad, nervously hopping from one side of the
paddle to the other. And the
was aghast. He
Principal
strode to his desk, grabbed
his telephone, and asked the
school switchboard operator
to call the police.
"Oh no you don't!" said David, tiredly, but smugly, and
REGA
he again repeated,
FLEXIS MUR!" before stalking out into the hall, and then
out of the school building.
It was a strange sight to see
a smirking boy walking down
the school sidewalk, followed
by two belching toads. The
boy himself thought so, so he
turned around, and stamped
his feet, and the toads leapt
'

into the grass one to the

left, and one to the right. And
David walked on his way.
There were no monitors that
day to prevent truants Luckily for the monitors.

So David,

David's head spun. "B-but

this this gift this jar of potions!"

Susy sniffed. "Oh, that was

just a fleeting sign of 'juvenile affection" Hmph!" said

feeling he'd final-

accomplished something in
the school system for once,
headstrongly strolled
over
to the park-like stretch of
forest near his family's estate.
"I'll
stay here until end of
school," he thought,
"And
then go home as usual." As
you can perceive, if David had
been a bit smarter, he would
have gone straight home,
saying he'd been sent home to
go to sleep. But no matter.
What he did was what he did.
There amidst the trees and
treestumps and logs he spotted a young girl, who appeared to be about his age and
she seemed quite preoccupied
with something, but he had to
get closer to figure out what.
And oddly enough, she wore
an old-fashioned dress, like
the kind he'd found in the
trunk the day before.
Upon closer inspection, he
found the girl to be quite
pretty, and to be methodically pulling the wings off flies.
Why, this was practically

Susy, as she stoocf up and

straightened out her dress,
to walk away,
looking over her shoulder,

ly

love at first sight for David!

His heart in his chest just

went

fluttering,

which

he

sure was a sign of true

love (although however, it
might well have been a nervous reaction brought on by
felt

and proceeded

"Mere PUPPY LOVE!"

David was confused and
somehow hurt in but one
minute.

"Well,

you're

SO

RIGHT!" he shouted, raising

his young arms and gesturing
dramatically,

incanting

GA FLEXIS MUR!"

"RE-

But nothing happened. The

just stood there. "Why
didn't you turn into a puppy?

girl

demanded

David, bewildered.

though

"Well,

wish
,

really truly

were an enchanted

princess, I'm stuck with being

a sorceress," sighed Susy

and then she angered, "But you just showed now

you really feel for me, mean
wistfully,

little

boy.

And you call yourYou even used

self a sorceror!

the wrong spell-REGA FLEXIS MUR only turns people to

I'll show you from PUPPY LOVE!-" At which she
deftly raised her daintily
graceful hand which scant
moments before had plucked wings from flies, and she
incanted "REGA HEXIS CUR!"
and then gently traipsed
away, leaving behind David,
frogs!

who had been transformed

into the writhing,

straining,

lack of sleep). The girl's long

hair was mostly brown, but
for a streak of yellow. Her
face was pretty, but she had

ting

one blue eye and one green

eye, and they both sort of
flashed when she suddenly
looked up at David, as she
said, "I'm Susy, and I'm a

David certainly had a hard

time trying to get all of his

wicked

witch,"

matter-of-

factly.

"WOW!"

thought

David,

"How can this be happening

to me! The girl of my dreams!
Actually, David hadn't thought
much about girls before, but
under
the
circumstances,
which were unusual ... well.
"That's great!" said David,
Want to per-

"I'M a sorcerer!

form some magic?"

The girl looked

at him
strangely. "How come you're
not in school?"
"Playin' hooky, and you?"
"Well, I'VE got a private tu-

torwho's sick," said Susy.

Then she picked up a glass
jarful of flies, and handed
them to David. "Here, Mr.
Sorcerer, use these

your

of

magic

in

some

potions.

I'M

TIRED of being a wicked witch

think I'll be an enchanted

princess for awhile."
I

David was thunderstruck.

Over so soon? Already? "Y-you

aren't

REALLY

a witch?"

"No, I'm really an enchanted princess. And you're beneath my dignity beneath

my

social station.

Goodbye."

loathsome, snarlihgand spitimage of CEREBUS, a

nine-headed demon-dog of
Greek mythology.

heads to work together. He

never succeeded. In each of
his 9 heads was 1/9 of his

mind and memory, and everywas

thing

helter-skelter

haze of cobwebs, and frogs,

and homework and a girl with
one blue eye and one green
eye. And he couldn't co-ordinate his 9 heads with his
4 legs, and each time he tried
to take a step, he fell rudely over onto one of his snouts.
But worst of all, he was hungry, and each head was hungry
for something different, and
the heads began growling in
argument, and pandemonium
ensued. And now, two of the
heads were nipping at each
other, biting and growling
fiercely
and now the canis
major teeth of one head were
slashing and tearing into the
jugular veins of the neck of
another head, and now blood
was spewing from the wound,
gushing onto the green grass
in violently red puddles, and
David was feeling quite weak.
As he collapsed onto the
ground to die, young David
noted that for all his eleven
years, he had never seen so
much blood in one place at
onetime...
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me

a story, Grandpa,"

Tell
Junior cried, climbing onto the old man's lap.
"Well, all right," Grandpa
agreed, "but just one before
our bedtime snack. What
would you like to hear?"
"Tell me about the humans
and the zombies," the young

ARTIST
PROFILE:

voice said excitedly.

Grandpa smiled. It
ior's favorite story,

ENRICH
ambition and drive can becomethe master cover painter he now is.
of

Enrich

is

thirty-three years
and has a boy.

old, is married,

He enjoys photography,
which may explain the photographic splendor of his Vampirella covers, and for relaxation, he enjoys playing the
guitar. He also goes to the

movies, though not frequently, and it doesn't make much

Enrich,

whose painting

VAMPIRELLA

in

of

the desert,

graces the cover of this

difference what kind of movie as long as it is good.

As for his art, his favorite

issue.

cover painter is Bernie

Fuchs(whooccasionallydoes

take another look

First off, cover.
The cover

covers for TV Guide-ed). He

enjoys drawing, but he is sorry that the field of commercial illustration seems to be
disappearing. There are fewer and fewer markets and
magazines publishing these

our
which attracted you to
magazine to begin with,
at some of our
past covers, issues #17' and
#18, for example. They are
all the work of one man: ENRICHOur readers have hailed
at

this

Then look

his covers as the best since

Frazetta, and that issue #18

was the most beautiful Varnpirella

cover ever.

Yet, when we asked Enhow he learned to paint,

he shocked us by stating he
never took painting lessons.
rich

We found this almost

impos-

sible to believe, and yet it

was true. And when we asked
about his ambitions, Enrich
said, "I'm not more ambitious
than anyone else." This we
can definitely argue with. Enrich is a self-taught artist a nd
,

onlyonewhohasagreat deal

days than ever before.

As for his influences, Enrich says "I've always tried

to follow the classic painters,
particularly the impressionists."

We asked him for a history

of his career as a cover
painter, but Enrich modestly
declined saying he would
want to wait a few more
years before responding,.
"I've only really started."

we

think Enrich is
than a starting painter

Weil,

more
... he is one of the most accomplished cover artists
that can be found on any
magazine.

never tired

was Junone he

"All right. Sit still

now." He

ed.
yes.

started around

It

the year 2000. Space travel

was pretty popular back then.
A colony was established on
the moon. Man had traveled
to Venus and Mars. They were
going beyond the asteroids,

too, to Jupiter and Saturn

until people got disillusioned
with spending all that money,
and having nothing to show
for it but pictures of dead
of
the
good
worlds. What was
sending people to places like
that when there was so much
trouble right on Earth?"
"Like overpopulation," Junior put in.
"Exactly," Grandpa agreed.
"Right now, of course, we

have selective breeding, but

back then human beings were
allowed to reproduce whenever they wanted. It was a
terrible mess. Not only was
there not enough food, but
living conditions were awful."
"The cemeteries," the young
boy prodded. "Tell me about
the cemeteries, Grandpa."
"There were so many people, they needed all the space

much needed

all

"Then what happened?"

"By that time there were
almost as many living dead
as there were human beings.
The people of Earth called
them zombies, and they were

One thing was certain:

both could not exist on Earth
together."
"Gosh," Junior breathed.
"Time to eat," Mother called, coming into the room.
"Aw, mom, can't it wait?"
Junior wailed. "Grandpa was
afraid.

telling

this bright

Grandpa went

"there

The

60

terrible

Grandpa

war."
said.

agreed.

bowed his head and gave

thanks to the fates which had
delivered them from destruction. Junior fidgeted, and
Grandpa smacked

his lips im-

patiently.

Then the four bent

heads over the

their

terrified

hu-

man struggling vainly against

bonds and began eating.
his

the fresh corpses

writes, "I've put VAMPI

a full moon, because

was

let's eat."

family gathered around

the living room table. There

was Grandpa and Junior,
Mother and Father. Father

CHARLES E.FRITCH

MOON-STRUCK?!

illustrated a

a story."

"And we won!" the boy

"Right,"

"Now,

of Port ClinOhio, penned this bewitching portrait of VAMPI

in the light of the silvery^:
moon. Long time reader Tom / e

VAMPIRELLA

me

Mother smiled and playfulruffled the boy's hair. "The

a hundred times before, I'll bet."
"So," Grandpa, who was
hungry, finished quickly,
ly

same one you've heard

ton,

Enrich's first cover painting for

the boy

indeed. Spaceship after

spaceship rose on columns
of fire, entering the vault of
the skies to circle the universe in giant steel coffins
forever. Or so the humans
thought. But something happened out there in space.
Call it divine intervention. The
results of cosmic rays. Perhaps some radioactive star.
A nova pulsing into life. Whatever the reason, the corpses
returned to life. They took
over the spaceship controls
and headed back to Earth."

Tom Soderberg

"Tomb of the Gods" episode in issue #17. His cover for VAMPIRELLA #18 portrayed Dracula and our vampiress-heroine.

it,"

Grandpa laughed. "They

did,

the story many times before,

he still leaned forward breathlessly to catch the old man's
words.
on, "put

lifeless

exploring

said.

Though Junior had heard

not,"

certainly a better rea-

worlds."
"So they did

idea."

"Why

was

it

son for sending up spaceships

than

they could get for living, so

they built apartments right
over the cemeteries which
left them with still another
problem: what to do with the
new ones that died. They
thought of burning them, but
too many people objected.

Then somebody got

however often was neceswould conserve the

It
living areas, and

or

sary.

of.

rubbed his chin. "Let me see.

How does it go?"
"It started around the year
2000," the youngster prompt-

"Oh

on a space rocket and shoot

away from Earth? They
it
could do it every few months,

under
/
that's///

the place I'd most tike to be

alone with her!" Moon-struck,

,//

Tom?

o //

WE ETERNAL THIRST
The
was

stillness of the

night

broken only by the

of leathery wings

sound

fluttering against the warm

night air. A large bird-like
form became visible as it soar-

ed down toward the balcony

of the ancient gothic mansion
that occupied the Medina
property on the outskirts of
town. Gracefully it glided in
to land, but pausing just beyond the railing, the huge
black bat transformed into

man

the shape of a

with his

cape spread in the wind.

Quietly he moved to the door
and opened it without a
sound. The man entered swiftly,
his cape rustling in the
breeze. Silently he slid behind the velvet curtain hanging in front of the door to
the balcony becoming one of
the many dark shadows in the
night. After a time he emerged
from behind the curtain and

began to inch

his

way toward

the occupied four-poster bed

in the middle of the room
like a cat stalking his unsuspecting prey. Closer and clos-

he crept, his insatiable

thirst for blood urging him
on. Once he paused, glancing
er

about apprehensively as if on
the verge of fleeing, but everpresent was his need for
fresh blood, and the sleeping
girl

provided an excellent

source. In a moment he was

bent over the girl, his mouth
opening, exposing two gleaming white fangs. His two razorsharp teeth found their mark
in the girl's soft throat. The
rich life-giving fluid slowly
drained from his helpless victim. After satisfying his thirst
for the time being, he released his hold on her neck
and retreated, leaving two
small wounds in the white
flesh that would be attributed
to mosquitoes or some small
animal. Cautiously he made
his way back to the door.
Once outside, he resumed his
bat-like form and soared off
into the night. His destiny:
to roam the world for all Eternity

as one of the living dead.

A pencil-portrait of our seductive huntress comes

way of Robert Randall, of Wynnewood. OWa.

IDOL OF UALIRRMA
Remote
charm

WENDY CRABTREE

in a

desert of dark

lies

an immeasur-

and awesome
many-columned and

ably sinister
city,

wrought

in

dragons' teeth and

pale gold. In that city

where

souls shrank and the grinning,

over-nourished ghouls ride on
a bitter wind, there dwelt a
conjurer of repellent uncouthness and ghastliness. His centuried, wolfish features seemed to hold the bewildered
sorcery of some ardent de-

mon.
In a vast hall of porphyry
the black-jeweled Ualirrma
sat upright on a chair of chis-

ment

paintings,

astrological
of

and all manner

blasphemous rarity.

One day the

singularly ava-

between ten and twelve

inches in height, and of shockingly extravagant workmanship. It stood on a pedestal
of bloodlike stone, and its
material was a dripping bluidol

...AND

head of a reptile creature comes

imagination of Tim Groh of Allentowrt, Pa.

MAY HE REST III PEACE!

hated to admit it,

Chuck
but what he really felt at
the funeral more than
anything else, was boredom.
He knew he should be upset,
but he was not. Instead he
felt oddly empty and rather
chilly. He looked at the sad,
tearful faces around him and
wished they could feel as unaffected as he did. He felt
especially sorry for his mother

who was

leaning against

her husband's arm and crying.

Chuck hoped that she would
recover soon.

The preacher finished

speaking and closed the book
gently.

Chuck watched and

waited in the heavy silence

as the casket was carried out.
He walked with the grim procession out to the graveyard
and watched them place the
casket in a deep hole. As they
began piling dirt on top of it,
Chuck wondered why he was
bored when he should be horrified. It was, after all,
his
funeral.

SHIRLEY

D.

SIPE

returned. He devoured it with

tenderness and unceasing affection. Then, something neglected and depraved dragitself across intestine and
heart. A stinking putrescence
crawled about his eyelids, the
leavings of carrion devoured
his tongue and edged into

ged

his nostrils.

hall of porphry in fear of a

strange dream. The conjurer
Ualirrma he could not find,
though he had not seen his
master retire by common way.
On the carpeted floor the
youth found an exceptional
figurine. The statue was a
compound of glutinous decay
oozing over a shredded, halfeaten flesh. Pupil-less eyes
were teeming with gorged

ricious Ualirrma acquired an

riding the

The statue was

all
that was

of

When the stars dimmeo,

the valet Lucan entered the

mud

artifacts,

fertile

love.

enveloped with
desire. A passionate
haunting leaned upon him.
A strange yearning mounted
within his bosom. Ualirrma
kissed it, and his kiss was

His hands, like

rested unstirring

ivory.

upon

VAMPIRELLA,

shaped

a blending
granted or

amorous

a smooth, black table.

Besides being a wizard with
fearsomely vile reputation
he was also an unparalleled
collector and connoisseur of
statuettes, figurines, parch-

elled

yellow

from the

to us by

ish-crimson.
It was with this acquisition
that a strange song beckon-

ed to his contemplation. He
was no longer content mereflower-wreathed,
ly

to stare.

red-lipped

dened

comeliness madUalirrma with alien-

maggots and worms.

Lucan

shut his eyes. He did not

take note of the other statuette, composed of copperycolored wood and standing
several feet from the writingtable. It remained on the sable carpet as an object of
radiant tenderness and infancy; and as a strikingly
young and half-legendary sorcerer

MICHAEL BENITEZ

IT'SNIEETHS+IARE!
Why

your great artwork

and fantastic stories be for your
eyes alone? Share them with the
let

all

of

world, and let VAMPIRELLA publish J

them on her fan pages.
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AND ON NIGHTS WHEN THE

ELEMENTS OF NATURE TURN
CHAOTIC; THE ECHO IS MAGNIFIED;

AND STILLNESS

BECOMES,

MORE THAN EVER, A SYMBOL

OF ITS PATIENCE. THERE IS AN
ODD FEELING THAT PERVADES
THE AREA AND DEFINES THE
NATURE OF THAT WAITING AS
ANTICIPATION. THERE IS

NEW

PREY ABOUT.

ART BY FELIX MAS

STORY BY DONALD McGREGOR

THE WET MACADAM WHISTLES HOLLOWLY

UNDER THE TIRE TREADS...

THE TWO PEOPLE DRIVE IN

FROM THE

SILENCE. STATIC

RADIO SLENDS IN UNNOTICED

WITH THE OTHER SOUNDS.

DONALD CARPENTER AND SANDRALEE

ARE AWARE OF TOE ISOLATION
ABOUT THEM

DEVEKIS

THERE

IS

ONE OTHER CREATURE 5TIRRING THIS

NIGHT.

NOW SHE AWAKENS 10 ANOTHER. NIGHT OF SEEKING NOCTURNAL PREY.

'
Lithe, seductive, inthe faint
moonlight, she appears much a5 she did when

life

pulsed through her veins.

SHE MOVES TD ONE OF THE ANCI ENT WINDOWS,

BARaV REMEMBERING HER RAST, CONCERNED

ONLY WITH THE PRESENT, AND
THE PRESENT REVEALS TWO

CARK FORMS MOVING

THROUGH THE TREES TOWARD
HER DOMAIN.
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YOUNG GIRL HELPLESS AS HER TEETH DIP INTO THE SIRUS NECK.SEEKING THE JUGULAR
VEIN.

FEAR BECOMES
CERTAINTY. DOES IT
WHY STRUGGLE ? WHY
STRUGGLE FOR A LIFE
REALLY MATTER SO
SO DOUBTFUL?
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FUTURE HOLD SO
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REMEMBER THE VAMPIRE'S WEAKTHE SCENT OF THE FEMALE VAMPINESS. CROSSES! THE SYMBOL OF
RESS IS STRONG IN HER NOSTRILS
REMEMBER AND STRUGGLE FOR LIFE,
SYMAND SWEEPS ASIDE TOE SELF-PITY.
GROT/ GOOD AS OPPOSED TO THE
FIGHT TO RETAIN THAT LIFE, AND
BOL OF EVIL. BUT YOU HAVENTANY
YES, IT IS WORTH LIVING. THERE IS
LIVES,
TWO
FOR
THAT
FIGHT
IN
STRONG
DOX3U? OPDOYOU?
STILL PROMISE. AND5HE IS NO
NOT ONE ARE DEPEN- SUCH CROSS,
LONGER SURE WHETHER SHE HAS
DENT UPON THE
LIFE
THE RIGHT TO THE DECISION OF
OUTCOME.
OR DEATH NOW THAT IT IS NOT ONLY
HER LIFE THAT IS THREATEN EP.

DOES IT MATTER WHAT SIZE THE

SYMBOL OR IS IT THE 5YAABOL
ITSELF WHICH IS IMPORTANT?

DOES IT MATTER OF WHAT THE

SYMBOL IS MADE, POLISHED SIIVER
OR GOLD-PLATED BRONZE, OR IS
IT

THE

FORM THAT

IS

IMPORTANT?

THE VAMPIRESS' SHRIEKS ECHO OFF

AND
THE DOMED CEILINGS IN REPLY,
SANDRALEE DEVENS FORGETS
ABOUT THE MIRACLE TAKING PLACE
WITHIN HER AND WITNESSES A
DEFIES
THAT
TRANSFORMATION

ANYTHING

IN

HER.

EXPERIENCE

A HUMOROUS THOUGHT FLITS THROUGH

HIS MIND. THE TRANSFORMATION SHOULD
HAVE JUMPED FROM ONE FORM TO THE
OTHER AS THEY DO IN ALL THOSE SECONDBATE DRACULA FILMS.

Violent sounds echo off

the silent walls'. the beating

wings against the air, the pull

impact of stumbling flesh, the
\mgh-pitchp shrill
,

There isn't time to wonder how

this can be happening. razor,
teeth shred flesh and the pain
stimulates action.

of the attacking
she-creature.

'-

are wet with blood, yet

Somehow, he manages to gripthe vicious form, his fingers.
IN HIS HANDS.
HE HOLDS ONTO THE STRUGGLING, SUDDENLY FEARFUL BEING

IN TERROR, HE REACHES OUT

FOR ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT AID

H/M

IN

DEFEATING THIS CREATURE.

THE WOODEN HANDLE OF THE FLAGSTAFF SLAMS SAVAGELY DOWN ONTO

THE PULSING CHEST BELOW. OVER
AND OVER, HE FEELS HIMSELF SLAMMING THAT POINT OF WOOD DOWN...

Perhaps

it is only a temporary
has held him. he
staggers away, not wanting to

insanity that

witness his own savagery. the

sight will stay with him, he
knows, lurking just behind his
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