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DRACULA!
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VAMPI'S FLAMES Profile
of
artist
Enrich, plus a spine-chilling terror trove of sto"... And May He Rest In Peace," a story of the boredom one feels at funerals especially when it's one's OWN! Plus "Eternal Thirst!" ries.
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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
I
I
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
I
#18 that Goodwin
gone-
is
only temporarily, hope. Belatedly or not wish to pen my congratulations to Mr. I
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 issues—he 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.
I
.
.
"Song For A Sad Eyed Sorceress," VAMPIRELLA #18
was
I
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"
.
I
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
I
I
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
I
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
I
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
I
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
I
rest of the stories were espeas usual, superb, but cially enjoyed the "Dorian
The
RELLA
I
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
I
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.
I
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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TODAY
W
fanEnrich's front
felt like hanging cover and it up. "Won't Get Fooled Again" was fantastic, and it
H9SH
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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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issue
superb
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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
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basi-
only receiv-
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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...
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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.'
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PAWN.' IT
FROM THE
STARS,
KNOWN
ONLY AS THE CONJURESS* WHO FIRST TAUGHT HIM THE WAYS OF THE OCCULT/ HE
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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
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FORGIVE
ME
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ONLY THAT I FEAR FOR yoUR IS
.
SAFETY.'
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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
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THERE ARE NO LANDMARKS ON THIS WORLD - NOTHING TO 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
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WONDER I DO ABOUT HIM, NOW
BEAR—
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THAT HE'S
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AND TO/S WAS THE ARCH-FIEND OF EARTH FOR SO MANY YEARS... THE MAN WHO HATED Jf NO
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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.
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PLUNGING,
AND THEN EARTH IS UNDER THEIR FEET- EARTH PARCELLED AND NAMED THE GROUNDS OF VAN HELSING MANSION.
CRDiCs
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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
a
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 potion—very 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.
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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.
f
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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
a
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
a
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
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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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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.
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THE PEOPLE WERE MERE PUPPETS BESIDE HIM. AIPEP By THE GOPS,
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THEV PRESENTED HIM WITH A HOUSE.ENORMOUS BANQUETS, UNLIMITED PRAISE. AND A SWORP OF SOLIP GOLP. ALTIK ACCEPTEP ALL /N THE WOPEN.
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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.
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two lovers are lost in ONE KISS.
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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
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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
.
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SHORT-SHORT
SHOCKER! David, for years, had
all
his
MS.
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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
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ART BY RICH BUCKLER
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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
m
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
r
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 .
.
I
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 ,—
I
really truly
were an enchanted
I
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!
j
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-
tor—who'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
a
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... END .
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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
a
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?
U
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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
a
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.
A
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
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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. FRAIL
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FEAR BECOMES CERTAINTY. DOES IT WHY STRUGGLE ? WHY STRUGGLE FOR A LIFE REALLY MATTER SO SO DOUBTFUL? .MUCH, SANDRA fDEVEWS? D0E5THEJJ FUTURE HOLD SO J MUCH PROMISE?
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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-pitch£p 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.
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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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