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VAMPI'S SCARLET LETTERS"For years I have criticized the lack of sex in

vampire stories," writes Linda Maxwell. "1 wasgratified to see that others felt the same, whenyou finally published VAMPIRELLA!"SLITHERERS OF THE SANDVAMPIRELLA finds herself in the desert,

her life slowly ebbing away, as she leaves Pen-dragon and the Van Helsings behind to follow

the only creature she desires ... DRACULA!

THE CRITIC'S CRYPT A new hor-

ror-ific column, reviewing the best in fright-fea-

tures. This issue, a critique on Bram Stoker's

novel, "Dracula," and Orson Welles' LP record

of the 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast.

TOMB OF THE GODS/LEGEIMDHave you heard of Altik the Warrior, who is

legend immortal? A true GOD who murderedhis father, sold his mother into slavery and per-

suaded his lover to slit her husband's throat!

PARANOIA Fingers of horror stretch in-

to a man's mind! Is it madness or reality as heis pursued by beasts, men and beings from the

past? What is the evil awaiting him as heslowly and silently opens the door to insanity?

VAMPI SHORT SHOCKERDavid couldn't believe the power at his finger-

tips, once he read the awesome book of spells

he'd discovered. Without a second thoughthe could transform his teachers into FROGS!

VAMPI'S FLAMES Profile of artist

Enrich, plus a spine-chilling terror trove of sto-

ries. "... And May He Rest In Peace," a storyof the boredom one feels at funerals . . . especial-

ly when it's one's OWN! Plus "Eternal Thirst!"

THE VAMPIRESS STALKS Youare seventeen years old, Sandralee Devens, andyou are only beginning to find out what it is

like to be alone! You are lonely, pregnant, anda vampiress stalks you for your BLOOD!

"VAMPIRELLA ridicules the great Dracula legend!

I

must say you certainlytied together a lot of looseends! The unhappy coinci-

dence of the name Drakulonwith the familiar Count Dra-cula is explained by claimingDracula named himself afterhis planet. More, a lot of folk-

lore is tied in nicely. Welldone. One word of warning:At least once you forgot thatDrakulonians have wings. In

passing, though I have nodoubt Drakulon as you'vepainted it is suffering from a

blood drought, droughts just

can't kill off entire planets.MICHAEL TIERSTEIN

Brooklyn, N.Y.

T^V They can if they are ali-

en droughts— and the one onDrakulon certainly was.

VAMPIRELLA #18 wasgreat. The front cover was thebest the magazine has everhad. "Dracula Still Lives" wasspooktacular.

SCOTT SILVASanta Maria, Calif.

Recently I have received myVampirella Membership Cardand VAMPIRELLA badge. I amproud to declare that I ammember #886. I was extreme-ly pleased to get such a fine

badge— it is, in fact, simplyBEAUTIFUL. Now, all that hasto be done is to get a posterof you.As for issue #18, it was ab-

solutely FANTASTIC!!! All thestories were good, but I feel

the two best were: "DraculaStill Lives" and "The DorianGray Syndrdme." Keep up thegood work.

DANMcGINNISAliquippa, Pa.

A.ALA poster of me is nowavailable from Warren. Checkmy ad on the back cover.

VAMPIRELLA #18 wasn't asgood as past issues for tworeasons. One: T. Casey Bren-nan can never compete withthe fantastic scripts ArchieGoodwin turns out for the se-ries. It's very annoying to seeConrad Van Helsing and Pen-dragon mouth long lines ofinformation we've alreadyread about in past issues.Reason two: There wasn't asingle story drawn by JoseBea, my favorite artist.

"Jose Gonzalez is the greatest artist of al! time," writesA! Guiliani of Leonardo, N.J. Scenes from Gonzalez* muchacclaimed VAMPIRELLA story, "Dracula Still Lives," provesthe enthusiasm is well warranted.

This is to let you know howhappy I am with the Goodwin-Gonzales team. I notice in

#18 that Goodwin is gone-only temporarily, I hope. Be-latedly or not I wish to penmy congratulations to Mr.Goodwin for the marvelouswork he has done with VAM-PIRELLA. The relationship be-tween Adam and his father,the character of Pendragon,the Lovecraftian Chaos myth-os, the ironic plot twists, andbest of all, some lovely dia-logue. If Mr. Goodwin is gonepermanently, I for one will

certainly miss him.Mr. Brennan's story passes

muster on the resurrection of

Dracula alone. Anyone in lovewith Vampire lore holds a spe-cial place in his or her . . . well,

not perhaps heart... in themarrow of their bones, for theCount. Vampires may comeand go, but Dracula goes onforever. He is the king. I foundMr. Brennan's exposition ofthe Count's past interesting,

but a bit trite. Must ALL theproblems of comics' charac-ters spring from unrequitedlove? Surely Dracula is aboveall this? I was relieved at theend of the story: let us keepthe Count his powerful, arro-gant, EVIL self. No psycho-analysis, no explanations, justmotiveless malignancy. Godforbid Dracula turn into Bar-nabus Collins.

And, of course, a word aboutMr. Gonzales's art. He is theONLY artist for the VAMPI-RELLA saga. I love his lean,

graceful people and the detail

of his settings.

Congratulations and keepup all the good work.

LLOYD ROSECharlotte, N.C.

I must congratulate you onyour magazine, Vampi. Creepyand Eerie are marvelous, butyou are just wonderful. Until

next issue, keep up the goodwork.

TIM STEPPEJohnson City, Tenn.

VAMPIRELLA #18 is myfirst issue I've read. I am writ-

ing to say I enjoyed it verymuch and fell in love not onlywith yourself, but Dracula aswell. You two are the same,yet different.

By the way, Vampi, I really

loved your cover! It made youlook beautiful! Even morethan the inside did.

The story "Dracula Still

Lives" is so unusual. I havenever read anything so haunt-ing, frightening, and at thesame time, tender.

THERESA MUCLAYKNew York, N.Y.

/

VAMPIRELLA beats outCreepy and Eerie by a mile.Vampi #18 was great! KeepDracula around for a few is-

sues—he sure makes the sto-ries more thrilling. Next toyour story, "Kali" and "Won'tGet Fooled Again" were ter-rific. "Song For A Sad EyedSorceress" was fair, and the"Dorian Gray Syndrome" wasokay. Cover by Enrich wasincredible.

PHILLASKOWSKIClark, N.J.

Your last issue was almostperfect. Except for "Kali" and"Song For A Sad Eyed Sor-ceress," VAMPIRELLA #18was a fine issue."Won't Get Fooled Again"

had to be one of the best sto-ries in your magazine. Aura-leon is among the finest art-ists Warren ever had, so is

Jose Gonzales! Speaking of

fine artists, now that UncleCreepy has Reed Crandallworking for him again, whydon't you use him?

I would like to see morewerewolves and vampires in

your magazine. Why haven'tyou ever created a story aboutKing Kong or Godzilla?

DAVID INGLEMorris, Minn.

W\_We would if more of ourfans would go "ape" overthem.

Archie Goodwin may not becurrently available to chroni-cle your adventures, but T.

Casey Brennan is NOT an ac-ceptable substitute.The VAMPIRELLA story in

#18 was really wretched. All

sorts of information that couldhave been given within thestory was jammed needless-ly into wordy thought bal-loons.

Mr. Brennan does not seemto appreciate the artistic val-

ue of SIMPLICITY. Comparethe clean plotting of #12 and#13 with the muddiness of

#18. Goodwin's Dracula wasa straightforward character.Brennan's is not more subtleor more complex, just moreincoherent. A proud Draculawho sins because he adheresto "the old ways" (#16) is im-pressive. A Dracula who falls

victim to his own concern for

ecology (what a dismal at-

tempt at relevance) is just anembarrassment.

Please get a better writerto work on your stories assoon as possible.

THOMAS OCHILTREECambridge, Mass.

*VNo sooner said thandone, Tom, baby.

"VAMPIRELLA No. 18 was great!"

Issue #18 was great (as al-

ways). The cover by Enrichwas the most terrifying andbeautiful cover ever done.SanJulian is always good, butI never knew Enrich was sucha master.Enough about the fantastic

cover, and on the stories.

Vampi, I never knew howgood you were until the in-

side story when you sparedDracula.The rest of the stories were

as usual, superb, but I espe-cially enjoyed the "DorianGray Syndrome."May your fangs never dull.

C.L.Jacksonville, Fla.

The latest issue of VAMPIRELLA was, to put it bluntly-lousy. The VAMPIRELLA se-

ries is getting monotonous.The Dracula legend is nowbeing ridiculed and twistedout of context to fit the se-

ries. Now particular idiocies:

The soap opera tone of thelatest story. Vampi moaningover the fact she is unworthyto kill Dracula, and Dracula'sorigin (which is just like Su-perman's). The worst partabout it is that Dracula him-self is being cheapened. Theinvincible will— the command-ing appearance, the cold cruelattitude, and the atmosphereof terror that he conveyed,all have been ignored or les-

sened to the point where theyaren't 'effective anymore. Hisonce invincible will is nowshaky and unsure. He no long-

er strikes terror, but now in-

vokes pity. This is disappoint-ing, even in the interest of

creating new story lines.

DAVE ORRILLHastings-on-the-Hudson, N.Y.

I am very sorry to say I just

began reading your mag, be-cause it is excellent. You aregreat, Vampi.

Issue #18 was terrific!!!

Jose Gonzales is the greatestartist of all time. His workwas superb in "Dracula Still

Lives.' "Won't Get FooledAgain" was second best, and"the Dorian Gray Syndrome"was third.

AL GIULIANILeonardo, N.J.

I was quite surprised to

see in issue #18 some letters

criticizing the element of lovein many "VAMPIRELLA" sto-

ries. These critics can nothave considered the sexualconnotations of Vampirism—i.e. one body penetrating theother— the use of physicalforce and hypnotism— all

things associated with sex andlove.

For years I have criticized

the lack of sex or romance in

most vampire stories, and I

was gratified to see that oth-

ers felt the same when theyfinally published VAMPIREL-LA. I even think your storiescould (and should) be moresexual than they are. Forthose who don't believe in

love, they canstill read Creepyand Eerie.

LINDA MAXWELLLafayette, Ind.

The cover to VAMPIRELLA#18 was outasite!! It wasbeautifully brilliant with a lot

of colors contained withinthat are not usually found oncovers. And it was so realis-

tic. FANTASTIC!!!Now onto its contents which

I have mixed feelings about."Song For A Sad Eyed Sor-ceress" was surely the beststory in a Warren mag for

some time. And I'm not kid-

ding. The story seemed to beplaced on a much higher adultlevel giving it a certain air of

sophistication. And the artwas definitely Garcia at his

best. Really a masterpieceand definitely a contender for

the 1972 Warren Awards.The second highlight of the

issue had to be "The DorianGray Syndrome" with "Dra-cula Still Lives" coming in

third.

Continued success.

BOBPINAHSayreville, N.J.

VAMPIRELLA #18 was fan-tastic. I liked Enrich's front

cover and I felt like hangingit up. "Won't Get FooledAgain" was fantastic, and it

gave me chills. Maroto's"Tomb Of The Gods" was pret-ty good, too.

JOHN FERNANDESBrooklyn, N.Y.

Siit back, relax, and once again let thesqueaking doors of your mind openas you join us in another issue of

VAMPIRELLA! We hope you'll be as ex-

cited as we are not only over the art-

work and stories we have for you this

issue, but the mighty talents that pro-

_ duced them, also.

Kicking off this twenty-first issue is a tale about drugsand women's liberation in the old west. "Mindbender" is

the first installment of a two-page featurette replacing theold "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 cov-ers. This issue's tale comes from the warped imagination of

writer/artist Dube! So what more can we say, other thanit'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 usthrough the talents of a new scripter to the pages of this

magazine, Chad Archer! Chad, while new to Vampi, is by nomeans a novice at the typewriter. Already he has earned areputation in the comics industry as one of the finest writ-

ers around. But then, one has to be good to carry on in theshadow of such fine VAMPIRELLA scripters as ArchieGoodwin and T. Casey Brennan. Artist Jose Gonzalez doeshis 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 withwhat one must give up to achievegoals in life. It begins on page 26.VAMPIRELLA regular, Luis Gar-cia teams up again this issue with

writer Steve Skeates on "Para-

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H9SH noia >" Pa8e 38'Luis and Steve

i: CtbTmBI last combined efforts on "Love

' H* mWi isnoGame"inVAMPIRELLA#20,1;*-2I fm''' And rounding out this twenty-

:

first issue is a twelve-page mas-terwork by writer Don McGregor,

Artist Jose Gonzalez,whose artwork con-tinues to breathe life

into the seductive hun-tress from the stars,VAMPIRELLA!

more than ably illustrated by thesuperb craftsman, Felix Mas.Page 62.And just to give you a taste of

what we have in store for you in

VAMPIRELLA #22, there's asneak-tease preview on page 74.

So until next issue.

THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY"SONG OFA SAD-EYEDSORCERESS!"

In concept, "Song of aSad-Eyed Sorceress" was in-

tended to be an atmospher-ic, lyrical suspense story thatexamined one fringe aspectof (dare we mention it?) sex-ual politics. Luis Garcia's art-

work certainly lends itself toestablishing mood, a con-stant that holds throughoutthe length of the story. Thereis also a quality of poeticlyricism in its executionThis sense of lyricism is

usually reserved for worksoffantasyand perhaps seemsout of sync for what is basi-

cally a contemporary horrorstory. Certainly, tnere is

more horror than fantasy in

a situation that finds a love

sequence wherein one of themembers of the embraceturns from human warmthto serpentine texture; yetthe build-up procedures andpage lay-outs suggest astronger leaning toward fan-

tasy than events transpiringto result in horror. This, in

turn, lends an entirely dif-

ferent outlook in over-all ap-pearance

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VAMPIRE. THEY CALL HERTHAT NOW, THOUGH ONCE IT WAS NOT SO. ONCE SHE WAS ASANY OTHER, DRINKING LIFE FROMTHE RIVERS OF BLOOD THAT CRISS-CROSSED HER HOME PLANET OF DRAKUU3N. BUT AS THOSE RIVERS DIED, A STAR-

SHIP CARRIED HER ACROSS THE GALAXIES TO OUR WORLD - EARTH. BEFRIENDED NOW BV THE VAN HELSINGS, WHO ONCEPURSUED HER, SHE WALKS MOODILY THROUGH THE GROUNDS OF VAN HELSING MANSION. AND MEMORIES RETURN TO THEGIRL CALLED...

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PROLOGUE BY T. CASEY BRENNAN

HOW CAN I BE HAPPY,

PENDRAGON, IN A WORLDTHAT IS SO STRANGE TO ME ?

THE I/AN HELSINGS HAVE BEENKIND TO US, BUT HOW CAN I

FORGET HOW DIFFERENT I

AW FROM THEM AND FROMYOU?

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FOR THE EVIL HE HAS 1

UNWITTINGLY DONE .'THE I

ICONJURESS HAS FOUND HIM "1

[ AGAIN —AND TOGETHER THEYTRAVEL FROM STRANGE WORLDTO STRANSE WORLD, AS HE

I SUFFERS ORDEAL AFTERORDEAL...THATISTHEDAMNATION HE HAS CHOSEN/"

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EVIL? YOU TOO,PENDRASON ? CAN'T ANY

OF /OU HERE ON EARTHUNDERSTAND WHAT BLOOOLUSTDOESTOA DRAKULONIANPANDDRACULA WAS DOUBLY CURSED,SINCE HE WAS A HELPLESS

> PAWN OF THE MAD GOD /CHAOS.'

/" A WILLING! PAWN, I'D SAy.

"NO/ NOT A WILLING

PAWN.' IT WAS THE GO0DESS\FROM THE STARS, KNOWNONLY AS THE CONJURESS*

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WHO FIRST TAUGHT HIM THEWAYS OF THE OCCULT/ HEWANTED TO USE HIS POWERSTO AID OUR WORLD.' IT WASONLY BY ACCIDENT THAT HEFELL UNDERTHE INFLUENCEOF THE MAD, BANISHED SOD I

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IS ONLY THAT I

FEAR FOR yoUR. SAFETY.'

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CHANGE YOUR MINP '

BUT I SHALL BE SOAFRAID FOR.you.' I KNOWyouR POWERSARE VAST...

BUT yOU ARESTILL...ONLY

A GIRL...

NO, NOT COMPLETELY-- FOR THEY HAVE

, FLE6TINGLV TOUCHED NOT ONLY THE GIRL FROMDRAKULON-- BUT ALSO THOSE STANDING AT HERPOINTOF DEPARTURE!

DESOLATION. TRY TO IMAGINE IT.

PERHAPS YOU THINK OF THE VAST VOIDSOF SPACE. MAYBE YOU ENVISION!

BOMBED-OUT STREETS AFTER SOMESREAT WAR. PERHAPS WUR CONCEPTIONIS THAT OF AN ADDICT'S SOUL .

BUT YOU CANNOT IMAGINE DESOLATION -

BECAUSE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN THELANDSCAPE ON WHICH FIVE SEMI-

i CONSCIOUS FIGURES NOW FINDI THEMSELVES. v_

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ART BY JOSE GONZALEZ / STORY BY CHAD ARCHER

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

THERE ARE NO LANDMARKS ON THIS WORLD - NOTHING TORELIEVE THE EYE OF SEEING SOFTLY TAN SAND EVERY SECONDOF EVERY HOUR . EVEN THE DIRECTION THEY HAVE COME SOON JLOSES ANY TRACE OF THEIR PASSAGE TO THE SLIGHT BUT f

THAT MEANSPEOPLE.'

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, 8ASE, I BELIEVE --AND,LOOK, SOME \ ' JUDGING FROM THE LACKAOYANCEO \ \ OF WEATHERING, ITS

CIVILIZATION MUST!

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THET SET OFF DOWN THE ROAD LIKE SCHOOLCHILDREN ON AN OUTING, THEIR SPIRITSRENEWED. AND ALL PAINS AND THIRSTSSUBMERSED IN THE JO? OF DISCOVERY,

~'f VAMPIRELLA.'/ The doctor cannot1 run as we can.' _-,

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AND TO/S WAS THEARCH-FIEND OF EARTHFOR SO MANY YEARS...

THE MAN WHO HATEDTHE VAN HELSINGS. .

Jf NO WONDER/./ I FEEL AS I DO

ABOUT HIM, NOW|

THAT HE'S

V CHANGED.

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FOR AN INSTANT, THE COMBINEDTOUCH OF VAMPIRE ANDVAMPIRESS IS ALMOST TOO MUCHFOR A PROUD OLD MAN TOBEAR—

AND THEY SEE ITS FACE" ITS TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE FACE.TERRIBLE WOT IN ITS GHASTLY QROTESQUERY - - BUTIN ITS DEEP-SET BLUE EYES— EYES THAT HOLD...INTELLIGENCE/

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FOR A SECOND, SHE STARTS TO OBEY-TO TURN AND HELP CONRAD VANHELSINS-BUT THEN SHE REMEMBERSWHAT SHE LEARNED JUST SCANTSECONDS BEFORE.

EVEN AS SHE RUNS, HER SOFTLY ROUNDEDFORM SHIFTS, SLIDES OVER ITSELF--

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AWAV, ACROSS THE PESERT. " « • BUT I'LL STAY TILLIM ; piSURG.

IT IS THEN. IN THE STILLNESS, THATVAMPIRELLA HEARS HORROR.'

-AND NOT UNTIL SHE ISA SPECK TO THE /MONSTER'S EYESI DOES SHE BEGIN THE SEARCH FOR HER FRIENDS.

WITHOUT FURTHER WORDS, THE FIVESOME BEGINS TOWALK ASWN-- ALWAYS HOPING FOR SHADS, FORSUSTWENCE... BUT FINDING ONLY THE BLAZINGGLARE 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, ANOTHERSIX HOURS PASS . HOURS MAY SEEM TO MEAN NOTHING ON APLANET WHOSE SUN NEVER MCWES FROM OVERHEAD-8UTHOURS MEAN QUITE A LOT, IN TRUTH....

BACK. AND FORTH THE TIDE OF BATTLE FLOWS

-AND IT CARRIES A COMBAT NOT SEEN OUTSIDEOF DRAKULON SINCE TIME BBBAM.'

BELOW, PENDRAGON WATCHES INTENTLY, ADAM WATCHESDIMLY, AND HIS FATHER LISTENS— All CAUGHT AGAINSTTHEIR WILL By THE SRACEFUL BEAUTY AND CHILLING

SHRIEKS OF THE DEADLY DUEL.

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THE FINAL SHOCK WAVES OF THE SLUS'S DEATH-THROBSHAVE NOT EVEN QUIETED BEFORE VAMPIRELLA RUSHES PAST IT.

HER LESS MOVE MORE SLOWLY THAN BEFORE. SHEKNOWS THAT NOT EVEN HER UNEARTHLY STAMINA CANTTAKE MUCH MORE.

. I DON'T.r—

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SO WITH *ȣ TO REALMSUNKNOWN "AND YOUOTHERS WILL RETURN

YOUR WORLD/

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

AND THEN EARTH IS UNDER THEIR FEET- EARTHPARCELLED AND NAMED THE GROUNDS OF VAN HELSINGMANSION.

W&&. CRDiCs CSWDRACULA

by Bram Stoker

Airmont, 75$ 317pages

This is one of those clas-sics that everyone makesfilms about, but nobodyreads. Reading the classic"Dracula" is an experienceand a half— and infuriating,

for one sees how relativelytame the Bela Lugosi versionof "Dracula" was— as arepractically all other filmed'Draculas."Bram Stoker had certain-

ly done his homework, whenthis novel was unleashedin 1897— he put every trap-ping of lore and bane and heximaginable, into the book.Stoker fully developed thecharacter of the Prince ofDarkness, intermingling andfinalizing every aspect ofwhat we now consider to bea vampire's character. Thefear of crosses, and wolf-bane and silver bullets andstakes, the "fact" that novampire can enter yourabode unless you let him in,

the sleeping in the coffinbit, the hairy palms ... all

of these aspects weren'treally used in "vampire"novels and yarns until BramStoker's book. Some aspectswere old Middle Europeansuperstitions, and lore aboutone historical Count Drakulaof the middle ages, but muchof it was Stoker's own im-agination.They really ought to film

"Dracula" right— the gaunt,clammy cold undead manwith the bushy eyebrowsand the physical strengthof 20 men, who can turn intoan animal at will, and com-mand obedience of all thatflies, prowls or slithers bynight. Quite a character!Read ye this classic and

daydream away.

DR. JEKYLL &MR. HYDE

by Robert Louis StevensonAirmont, 75$ 126pages

Robert Louis Stevensonproved with this book that a

good novel doesn't have tobe a long one. A slim andeasy to read and engrossingtale, it's inspired many a

play, movie and TV adap-tation, with such actors asJohn Barrymore, FredericMarch and Jack Palancefrom time to time essayingthe dual title role(s). Thebook's title became a stan-dard term to describe a split

personality, before theFreud-coined psychologicalterm "schizophrenia" caughton.

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"is really one of the first psy-chological novels" that bearsany resemblance to the ac-tions of the mind as we nowperceive it. And everyoneknows the great horrificstory of the gentlemanlyscientist, Dr. Jekyll, whoconcocts strange combina-tions of drugs, tries them,and unleashes all the pent-up animalistic evil withinhim. And everyone knowsthat soon the bad self, "Mr.Hyde," takes over him with-out use of the strange po-tion—very much like des-criptions of maddening anddangerous "flashbacks thatpeople who fool around withso-called "mind" drugs todayreportedly experience. Whatmost people don't knowabout this strange and weird1886 novel is how well writ-ten it is, particularly in theextracts of the journal of Dr.Henry Jekyll, where youwatch his mind disintegratebefore your eyes, ana the"ape-like spite' of Mr. Hydetakes over.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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THE WAR OFTHE WORLDS

Audio Rarities

LPA 42355 $5.98

Here, on one LP record is

most of the original history-making "War of the Worlds"broadcast of Halloween eve,1938. That broadcast by Or-son Welles and his MercuryTheatre troupe literally scar-ed the bejabbers out of thou-sands of gullible radio lis-

teners, inspiring nationwidepanic and mass-hysteria.Mars, it seemed, was attack-ing the world, and there wasno way to repel the hordesof gas-spewing, heat raybrandishing, intelligent, ma-levolent, conquest-bent, Mar-tian octopus critters.

Of course, it was all meantto be a harmless Halloweenradio prank, a contemporaryretelling of H.G. Wells's "Warof the Worlds," convincing-ly concocted by author How-ard Koch, under the super-vision of the great actor/director/gen i us, OrsonWelles. But the hoax back-fired, and triggered off amass panicana scandal with-in the radio industry. Theresulting publicity catapult-ed Koch and Welles to Holly-wood and to greater creativeglories. Using a little -imag-ination, one sees how peoplegot scared. It's an excellentadaptation.Author Howard Koch in

1967 wrote a book aboutthe whole story, "The PanicBroadcast," including news-paper clippings and the orig-inal script. Following thescript along with the record,one finds only a couple ofminor omissions from thecomplete show, made so it

could fit on one 50 minuterecord. It's a fine bit of triv-

ia for nostalgia buffs, fansof old time radio, studentsof drama, H.G. Wells and Or-son Welles aficionados, ama-teur anthropologists, andMartian octopi.

THEMES FROMMOVIESHORRORDickJacobs & Orch

Coral, Stereo, $5.75

If you want an LP album-ful of good horror moviemusic, this is it. Arranger/conductor Dick Jacobs is

faithful to the 14 sound-track themes. No lazying it

up with any of that mean-dering jazz stuff— Mr. Ja-cobs respects the compos-ers' intentions, and ener-getically plays the creakydissonances and shudderingtremolos as they werewritten, but with thickerorchestration. And rattlingchains.Among the film-musics this

album immortalizes are;"Son of Dracula," "This Is-

land Earth," "The Mole Peo-ple," "House of Franken-stein," "Horror of Dracula,""The Deadly Mantis," and all

three of the Lagoon Creaturefilms. This reviewer's favo-rite cut is the queasily mel-odic theme from' "The In-

credible Shrinking Man."The term "haunting beauty"may best be bestowed uponit.

This album was recordedabout a decade ago, andamong the horror film com-posers represented on it,

is a "new" fellow namedHenry Mancini. Yes; THEHenry Mancini. Here arehis themes from "Tarantula,"and "The Creature WalksAmong Us." One wonders if

his great hit song, "MoonRiver," didn't first germi-nate in his head as "LagoonRiver," or somesuch.Now to the next aspect-

corny humor. There's apretty clever batch of it onthe album jacket notes andthe intros penned by MortGoode, and narrated bright-ly in the "voices" of BorisKarloff, Bela Lugosi and Pet-er Lorre by one Bob McFad-den. A pleasantly hokey ex-ample (in Lorre's voice):"Tarantula music eats somepeople up aliv*e!" Urrrp.

Reviews By CHUCK McNAUGHTON

ART AND STORY BY ESTEBAN MAROTO

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SHOCKER!David, for all his eleven

years, had never imaginedso many cobwebs could be

in one place at one time. Nowhe had here, in his own attic,

more cobwebs than he'd everseen (even counting the oneshe'd seen on TV ghost shows).He sat down by an ornately-

bound leather and metalclothes trunk, toppling andsnapping the cobwebs by it, asif he were Gulliver sitting

down beside a circus tent in

Lilliput.

David had about an hourbefore dinnertime, an hour to

study the cobwebs, and howtheir tickly snowy gauze felt

when it came in contact with

his face, especially his nose.

He could stare at the eerie

beauty of the shimmeringthreads of rainbows that cob-

webs became when the light

of the setting sun settled

upon them, as it sneakedthrough the boarded-up attic

windows. David was in his

own heaven; he and the cob-webs, and the must, and thesilence, where thoughts of

school and premonitions of

how his parents would screamwhen they saw his nextreport card did not intrude.

After a minute or two, thesunlight did not come sobrightly to make the cobwebsshimmer anymore, and Davidturned his attention else-

where. The attic was darken-ing, and there were no light

bulbs, so if he were to get

any exploring done, Davidmust move fast. The trunkbeside him looked interest-

ing. It drew his imagination

to it, and somehow all theother gadgets and googawsand packages in the attic

seemed uninteresting. Davidimagined himself to be somesort of movie magician, as hewaved his arms and the cob-webs wherever his armsswept seemed to melt into thedark air. Straightaway heunbuckled the leather strapsthat 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 mainlyold clothes, the kind of clothes

that people in movies and TVshows set in the old dayswear. Though there was nosmell of mothballs, the clothes

were in excellent repair. Da-

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Mrs. Robinson no less so.

Sputtering giggles began to

creep about the room as Mrs.Robinson stepped lightly in

her heavy old black shoes,

crept up to David's desk, andgrabbed him by the scruff of

the neck. David managed to

get his eyes open only by thetime he was dragged into thehall. Mrs. Robinson was cack-

ling how she'd call David'sparents to find out just whytheir son never got any sleep,

etc. etc.

Well, the principal certain-

ly looked stern. David hadnever seen him before, andhoped he never would again.

And the stern principal said

to old lady Robinson that mostcertainly a paddling would bein order. So he reached in

his desk drawer and pulled

out a huge board with a

handle whittled at one end,

and holes drilled through thepaddle part, so that the air

couldn't slow down the pro-

gress of that instrument of

torture as it sped toward anoffending juvenile's rump.And David was forced to placehis 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 Robinsonprepared to swing the paddle,

and . .

.

And suddenly David spat

out the words, ''REGA FLEXISMUR!" and there was a soundin the air that can be best

described as "KA-POOF!"and when that sound died

away, there was the newsound of "Chirrrupp! Gr-

roooak! Chtrruuupp!' andthere, on the floor was a small

green toad, nervously hop-ping from one side of thepaddle to the other. And thePrincipal was aghast. Hestrode to his desk, grabbedhis telephone, and asked theschool switchboard operatorto call the police.

"Oh no you don't!" said Da-vid, tiredly, but smugly, andhe again repeated, ' REGAFLEXIS MUR!" before stalk-

ing out into the hall, and thenout of the school building.

It was a strange sight to seea smirking boy walking downthe school sidewalk, followed

by two belching toads. Theboy himself thought so, so heturned around, and stampedhis feet, and the toads leapt

vid dug deeper into the chest.

At the very bottom was a hugeold book, with a leather bind-

ing. It was heavy, and it tookDavid a couple of tries to get it

lifted from the trunk.The cover of the book

had embossed in a chalky-

white substance the word,"SPELLS." David could feel

the book begging, "Read me!""I'll read you, he spoke to

the book, 'Tonight, later, in

my room, after supper." And

so David crept down from theattic to his bedroom, whichwas on the third floor of his

house, and placed the bookunder his bed. Then he wash-ed and went down to watchsome TV before supper.At supper, in the family

dining room, David couldsense some admonition fromhis parents to study hardcoming before even the as-

paragus would be served, sohe stopped it before it ar-

rived by saying he'd had a

substitute teacher in school,

that day, who'd made Scienceinteresting, and that he want-ed to go up to his room thatnight and study Science. Thisstatement so pleased his

mother, that he got a secondhelping of ice cream asdessert.And during dessert, David

brought up the subject of

magic, asking if it was real.

"Bosh," said his father, whostraightaway proceeded to

remember out loud a long

string of amusing storiesabout David's eccentric great-

grandfather, a reputed 'town

warlock," and tales of otheroddball ancestors, tales whichonly David's mother foundamusing.So David excused himself

from the table after his sec-

ond helping of ice cream, andretreated to his room. Therehe sat hunched upon his bedwith the great book upon his

knees, not moving save toturn a page, as he mumbledbeneath his breath the cur-

ious phrases and foreign

words in the book, over andover again, until he got themright . .

.

David lost his track of thetime, and had only gottenabout half the book commit-ted to memory when he ob-

served how much easier it

was to read, when the sunflushed over the pages. Thesun!

David snapped to aware-ness. He'd been reading all

night! And still on his dress-

er were his schoolbooks, with

all his assignments unfinish-

ed. Darn! It was going to beanother one of those rotten

school days.In the classroom, David

had a hard time staying

awake. His eyelids kept say-

ing to each other "Let's jumphis eyeballs!" and David couldhardly gather stamina toprevent that fight. Mrs. Rob-inson, spindly old Mrs. Rob-inson, was clacking all overthe room in her heavy old

black shoes and accostingseveral students for not hav-ing done their homework.When David's name cameresonating through her false

teeth, like a fingernail scrap-ing along a blackboard, Davidhad just about decided to let

his eyelids win, and fall asleep.

So he couldn't really be an-noyed; "Shut up, will you, I

want to get a little rest!" hesaid.

The class was electrified.

into the grass— one to theleft, and one to the right. AndDavid walked on his way.There were no monitors thatday to prevent truants— Luck-ily for the monitors.So David, feeling he'd final-

ly accomplished something in

the school system for once,headstrongly strolled overto the park-like stretch offorest near his family's estate."I'll stay here until end ofschool," he thought, "Andthen go home as usual." Asyou can perceive, if David hadbeen a bit smarter, he wouldhave gone straight home,saying he'd been sent home togo to sleep. But no matter.What he did was what he did.There amidst the trees and

treestumps and logs he spot-ted a young girl, who appear-ed to be about his age— andshe seemed quite preoccupiedwith something, but he had toget closer to figure out what.And oddly enough, she worean old-fashioned dress, likethe kind he'd found in thetrunk the day before.Upon closer inspection, he

found the girl to be quitepretty, and to be methodical-ly pulling the wings off flies.

Why, this was practicallylove at first sight for David!His heart in his chest justwent fluttering, which hefelt sure was a sign of truelove (although however, it

might well have been a ner-vous reaction brought on bylack of sleep). The girl's longhair was mostly brown, butfor a streak of yellow. Herface was pretty, but she hadone blue eye and one greeneye, and they both sort offlashed when she suddenlylooked up at David, as shesaid, "I'm Susy, and I'm awicked witch," matter-of-factly.

"WOW!" thought David,"How can this be happeningto me! The girl of my dreams!Actually, David hadn't thoughtmuch about girls before, butunder the circumstances,which were unusual ... well.

"That's great!" said David,"I'M a sorcerer! Want to per-form some magic?"The girl looked at him

strangely. "How come you'renot in school?"

"Playin' hooky, and you?"

"Well, I'VE got a private tu-tor—who's sick," said Susy.Then she picked up a glassjarful of flies, and handedthem to David. "Here, Mr.Sorcerer, use these in someof your magic potions. I'MTIRED of being a wicked witch— I think I'll be an enchantedprincess for awhile."David was thunderstruck.

Over so soon? Already? "Y-youaren't REALLY a witch?"

"No, I'm really an enchant-ed princess. And you're be-neath my dignity— beneathmy social station. Goodbye."

David's head spun. "B-butthis— this gift— this jar of po-tions!"Susy sniffed. "Oh, that was

just a fleeting sign of 'juve-nile affection"— Hmph!" saidSusy, as she stoocf up andstraightened out her dress,and proceeded to walk away,looking over her shoulder,"Mere PUPPY LOVE!"

David was confused andsomehow hurt— in but oneminute. "Well, you're SORIGHT!" he shouted, raisinghis young arms and gesturingdramatically, incanting "RE-GA FLEXIS MUR!"But nothing happened. The

girl just stood there. "Whydidn't you turn into a puppy?demanded David, bewildered.

"Well, though I really trulywish I were an enchantedprincess, I'm stuck with being

,—| a sorceress," sighed Susywistfully, and then she anger-ed, "But you just showed nowyou really feel for me, meanlittle boy. And you call your-self a sorceror! You even usedthe wrong spell-REGA FLEX-IS MUR only turns people tofrogs! I'll show you from PUP-PY LOVE!-" At which she

jdeftly raised her daintilygraceful hand which scantmoments before had pluck-ed wings from flies, and sheincanted "REGA HEXIS CUR!"and then gently traipsedaway, leaving behind David,who had been transformedinto the writhing, straining,loathsome, snarlihgand spit-ting image of CEREBUS, anine-headed demon-dog ofGreek mythology.

David certainly had a hardtime trying to get all of hisheads to work together. Henever succeeded. In each ofhis 9 heads was 1/9 of hismind and memory, and every-thing was a helter-skelterhaze of cobwebs, and frogs,and homework and a girl withone blue eye and one greeneye. And he couldn't co-or-dinate his 9 heads with his4 legs, and each time he triedto take a step, he fell rude-ly over onto one of his snouts.But worst of all, he was hung-ry, and each head was hungryfor something different, andthe heads began growling in

argument, and pandemoniumensued. And now, two of theheads were nipping at eachother, biting and growlingfiercely . . . and now the canismajor teeth of one head wereslashing and tearing into thejugular veins of the neck ofanother head, and now bloodwas spewing from the wound,gushing onto the green grassin violently red puddles, andDavid was feeling quite weak.As he collapsed onto the

ground to die, young Davidnoted that for all his elevenyears, he had never seen somuch blood in one place atonetime... END

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ARTISTPROFILE:

Enrich, whose painting of

VAMPIRELLA in the desert,

graces the cover of this

issue.

First off, take another look

at our cover. The coverwhich attracted you to

this magazine to begin with,

Then look at some of ourpast covers, issues #17' and#18, for example. They areall the work of one man: EN-RICH-Our readers have hailed

his covers as the best since

Frazetta, and that issue #18was the most beautiful Varn-

pirella cover ever.

Yet, when we asked En-

rich how he learned to paint,

he shocked us by stating henever took painting lessons.

We found this almost impos-sible to believe, and yet it

was true. And when we askedabout his ambitions, Enrich

said, "I'm not more ambitiousthan anyone else." This wecan definitely argue with. En-

rich is a self-taught artist ,a nd

onlyonewhohasagreat deal

ENRICHof ambition and drive can be-

comethe master cover paint-

er he now is.

Enrich is thirty-three yearsold, is married, and has a boy.He enjoys photography,which may explain the photo-graphic splendor of his Vam-pirella covers, and for relax-

ation, he enjoys playing theguitar. He also goes to themovies, though not frequent-

ly, and it doesn't make muchdifference what kind of mov-ie as long as it is good.

As for his art, his favorite

cover painter is BernieFuchs(whooccasionallydoescovers for TV Guide-ed). Heenjoys drawing, but he is sor-

ry that the field of commer-cial illustration seems to bedisappearing. There are few-

er and fewer markets andmagazines publishing these

days than ever before.

As for his influences, En-rich says "I've always tried

to follow the classic painters,

particularly the impression-ists."

We asked him for a history

of his career as a coverpainter, but Enrich modestlydeclined saying he wouldwant to wait a few moreyears before responding,."I've only really started."

Weil, we think Enrich is

more than a starting painter

... he is one of the most ac-

complished cover artists

that can be found on anymagazine.

Enrich's first cover painting for VAMPIRELLA illustrated a

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

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Tell me a story, Grandpa,"Junior cried, climbing on-

to the old man's lap.

"Well, all right," Grandpaagreed, "but just one before

our bedtime snack. Whatwould you like to hear?"

"Tell me about the humansand the zombies," the youngvoice said excitedly.

Grandpa smiled. It was Jun-ior's favorite story, one henever tired of.

"All right. Sit still now." Herubbed his chin. "Let me see.

How does it go?""It started around the year

2000," the youngster prompt-ed."Oh yes. It started around

the year 2000. Space travel

was pretty popular back then.

A colony was established onthe moon. Man had traveled

to Venus and Mars. They weregoing beyond the asteroids,

too, to Jupiter and Saturn—until people got disillusioned

with spending all that money,and having nothing to showfor it but pictures of deadworlds. What was the good of

sending people to places like

that when there was so muchtrouble right on Earth?"

"Like overpopulation," Jun-ior put in.

"Exactly," Grandpa agreed."Right now, of course, wehave selective breeding, but

back then human beings wereallowed to reproduce when-ever they wanted. It was a

terrible mess. Not only wasthere not enough food, but

living conditions were awful."

"The cemeteries," the youngboy prodded. "Tell me aboutthe cemeteries, Grandpa."

"There were so many peo-

ple, they needed all the spacethey could get for living, so

they built apartments right

over the cemeteries— whichleft them with still anotherproblem: what to do with thenew ones that died. Theythought of burning them, but

too many people objected.

Then somebody got this bright

idea."

Though Junior had heardthe story many times before,

he still leaned forward breath-

lessly to catch the old man'swords.

"Why not," Grandpa wenton, "put all the fresh corpses

on a space rocket and shoot

it away from Earth? Theycould do it every few months,or however often was neces-

sary. It would conserve the

much needed living areas, andit was certainly a better rea-

son for sending up spaceshipsthan exploring lifelessworlds.""So they did it," the boy

said.Grandpa laughed. "They

did, indeed. Spaceship after

spaceship rose on columnsof fire, entering the vault of

the skies to circle the uni-

verse in giant steel coffins

forever. Or so the humansthought. But something hap-

pened out there in space.

Call it divine intervention. Theresults of cosmic rays. Per-

haps some radioactive star.

A nova pulsing into life. What-ever the reason, the corpsesreturned to life. They took

over the spaceship controls

and headed back to Earth."

"Then what happened?""By that time there were

almost as many living deadas there were human beings.

The people of Earth called

them zombies, and they wereafraid. One thing was certain:

both could not exist on Earth

together.""Gosh," Junior breathed."Time to eat," Mother call-

ed, coming into the room."Aw, mom, can't it wait?"

Junior wailed. "Grandpa wastelling me a story."

Mother smiled and playful-

ly ruffled the boy's hair. "Thesame one you've heard a hun-

dred times before, I'll bet."

"So," Grandpa, who washungry, finished quickly,

"there was a terrible war."

"And we won!" the boy said.

"Right," Grandpa agreed."Now, let's eat."

The family gathered aroundthe living room table. Therewas Grandpa and Junior,Mother and Father. Fatherbowed his head and gavethanks to the fates which haddelivered them from destruc-

tion. Junior fidgeted, andGrandpa smacked his lips im-

patiently.Then the four bent their

heads over the terrified hu-

man struggling vainly against

his bonds— and began eating.

CHARLES E.FRITCH

MOON-STRUCK?!Tom Soderberg of Port Clin-

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writes, "I've put VAMPI under /a full moon, because that's///the place I'd most tike to be ,// „alone with her!" Moon-struck, o //Tom? U

WE ETERNAL THIRSTThe stillness of the night

was broken only by thesound of leathery wings

fluttering against the warmnight air. A large bird-likeform became visible as it soar-ed down toward the balconyof the ancient gothic mansionthat occupied the Medinaproperty on the outskirts oftown. Gracefully it glided in

to land, but pausing just be-yond the railing, the hugeblack bat transformed intothe shape of a man with hiscape spread in the wind.Quietly he moved to the doorand opened it without asound. The man entered swift-ly, his cape rustling in thebreeze. Silently he slid be-hind the velvet curtain hang-ing in front of the door tothe balcony becoming one ofthe many dark shadows in thenight. After a time he emergedfrom behind the curtain andbegan to inch his way towardthe occupied four-poster bedin the middle of the roomlike a cat stalking his unsus-pecting prey. Closer and clos-

er he crept, his insatiablethirst for blood urging himon. Once he paused, glancingabout apprehensively as if onthe verge of fleeing, but ever-present was his need forfresh blood, and the sleepinggirl provided an excellentsource. In a moment he wasbent over the girl, his mouthopening, exposing two gleam-ing white fangs. His two razor-sharp teeth found their markin the girl's soft throat. Therich life-giving fluid slowlydrained from his helpless vic-tim. After satisfying his thirst

for the time being, he re-leased his hold on her neckand retreated, leaving twosmall wounds in the whiteflesh that would be attributedto mosquitoes or some smallanimal. Cautiously he madehis way back to the door.Once outside, he resumed hisbat-like form and soared off

into the night. His destiny:to roam the world for all Eter-nity as one of the living dead.

WENDY CRABTREE

VAMPIRELLA, riding the head of a reptile creature comesfrom the fertile imagination of Tim Groh of Allentowrt, Pa.

...AND MAY HE REST III PEACE!Chuck hated to admit it,

but what he really felt at

the funeral more thananything else, was boredom.He knew he should be upset,but he was not. Instead hefelt oddly empty and ratherchilly. He looked at the sad,tearful faces around him andwished they could feel as un-affected as he did. He felt

especially sorry for his moth-er who was leaning againsther husband's arm and crying.Chuck hoped that she wouldrecover soon.

The preacher finishedspeaking and closed the bookgently. Chuck watched andwaited in the heavy silenceas the casket was carried out.He walked with the grim pro-

cession out to the graveyardand watched them place the

casket in a deep hole. As theybegan piling dirt on top of it,

Chuck wondered why he wasbored when he should be hor-rified. It was, after all, hisfuneral.

SHIRLEY D. SIPE

A pencil-portrait of our seductive huntress comes to us byway of Robert Randall, of Wynnewood. OWa.

IDOL OF UALIRRMARemote in a desert of dark

charm lies an immeasur-ably sinister and awesome

city, many-columned andwrought in dragons' teeth andpale gold. In that city wheresouls shrank and the grinning,over-nourished ghouls ride ona bitter wind, there dwelt aconjurer of repellent uncouth-ness and ghastliness. His cen-turied, wolfish features seem-ed to hold the bewilderedsorcery of some ardent de-mon.

In a vast hall of porphyrythe black-jeweled Ualirrmasat upright on a chair of chis-elled ivory. His hands, like

yellow mud rested unstirringupon a smooth, black table.Besides being a wizard with

a fearsomely vile reputationhe was also an unparalleledcollector and connoisseur ofstatuettes, figurines, parch-ment paintings, astrologicalartifacts, and all manner ofblasphemous rarity.

One day the singularly ava-ricious Ualirrma acquired anidol between ten and twelveinches in height, and of shock-ingly extravagant workman-ship. It stood on a pedestalof bloodlike stone, and its

material was a dripping blu-ish-crimson.

It was with this acquisitionthat a strange song beckon-ed to his contemplation. Hewas no longer content mere-ly to stare. A flower-wreathed,red-lipped comeliness mad-dened Ualirrma with alien-

shaped love. The statue wasa blending of all that wasgranted or enveloped withamorous desire. A passionatehaunting leaned upon him.A strange yearning mountedwithin his bosom. Ualirrmakissed it, and his kiss wasreturned. He devoured it withtenderness and unceasing af-fection. Then, something ne-glected and depraved drag-ged itself across intestine andheart. A stinking putrescencecrawled about his eyelids, theleavings of carrion devouredhis tongue and edged intohis nostrils.

When the stars dimmeo,the valet Lucan entered thehall of porphry in fear of astrange dream. The conjurerUalirrma he could not find,

though he had not seen hismaster retire by common way.On the carpeted floor theyouth found an exceptionalfigurine. The statue was acompound of glutinous decayoozing over a shredded, half-

eaten flesh. Pupil-less eyeswere teeming with gorgedmaggots and worms. Lucanshut his eyes. He did nottake note of the other statu-ette, composed of coppery-colored wood and standingseveral feet from the writing-table. It remained on the sa-ble carpet as an object ofradiant tenderness and in-

fancy; and as a strikinglyyoung and half-legendary sor-cerer

- MICHAEL BENITEZ

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AND ON NIGHTS WHEN THEELEMENTS OF NATURE TURN

CHAOTIC; THE ECHO IS MAGNI-

FIED; AND STILLNESS BECOMES,

MORE THAN EVER, A SYMBOLOF ITS PATIENCE. THERE IS ANODD FEELING THAT PERVADESTHE AREA AND DEFINES THENATURE OF THAT WAITING ASANTICIPATION. THERE IS NEW

PREY ABOUT.

ART BY FELIX MAS / STORY BY DONALD McGREGOR

THE WET MACADAM WHISTLES HOLLOWLYUNDER THE TIRE TREADS...

.

THE TWO PEOPLE DRIVE IN DONALD CARPENTER AND SANDRALEESILENCE. STATIC FROM THE DEVEKIS ARE AWARE OF TOE ISOLATIONRADIO SLENDS IN UNNOTICED _ ABOUT THEM

.

WITH THE OTHER SOUNDS.

THERE IS ONE OTHER CREATURE 5TIRRING THIS NIGHT.

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

'— Lithe, seductive, inthe faintmoonlight, she appears much a5 she did whenlife pulsed through her veins.

SHE MOVES TD ONE OF THE ANCI ENT WINDOWS,BARaV REMEMBERING HER RAST, CONCERNEDONLY WITH THE PRESENT, ANDTHE PRESENT REVEALS TWOFRAIL CARK FORMS MOVINGTHROUGH THE TREES TOWARDHER DOMAIN.

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^^PfWre^ffiNSWlON TOWARD TMIS (ML-WOMAN WHO WALKS HESITANTLY BESIDE HIM.

s;«»3BS*H3F^*s*"aiss

NOWSANCRALEE DEVENS^^^^^i^X^^r^^Zn^^^S^^WITH HER AS SHE GAZES ABOUT SHE WOULD HAVE SEEN AWARE OF THE POK

(WHIR* FACE, HEARS

CH«Sn«A MVSBNE FEELSTHE -"£««»»£««*^^T^^XBIOLOGICAL REACTION BEGINS. - ,_., ,

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IN MOMENTS NOW, THE FAMILIAR SENSATION WILL OCCUR!?. CHRISTINA'S STRONG,THIN HANDS WILL HOL0 7UFYOUNG GIRL HELPLESS AS HER TEETH DIP INTO THE SIRUS NECK.SEEKING THE JUGULAR VEIN.

FEAR BECOMESHOW MUCH CAN IT

CERTAINTY. DOES IT WHY STRUGGLE ? WHY «o mopbtuI^ aREALLY MATTER SO STRUGGLE FORA LIFE SSiuS?/2«*» WUAt nearomn..MUCH, SANDRA SO DOUBTFUL? ^ PaTh^" CwfW«^fDEVEWS? D0E5THEJJJFUTURE HOLD SOMUCH PROMISE?

THE SCENT OF THE FEMALE VAMPI-

RESS IS STRONG IN HER NOSTRILS

AND SWEEPS ASIDE TOE SELF-PITY.

YES, IT IS WORTH LIVING. THERE IS

STILL PROMISE. AND5HE IS NO

LONGER SURE WHETHER SHE HASTHE RIGHT TO THE DECISION OF LIFE

OR DEATH NOW THAT IT IS NOT ONLY

HER LIFE THAT IS THREATENEP.

REMEMBER AND STRUGGLE FOR LIFE,

FIGHT TO RETAIN THAT LIFE, AND GROT/

STRONG IN THAT FIGHT FOR TWO LIVES,

NOT ONE ARE DEPEN-DENT UPON THE

OUTCOME.

REMEMBER THE VAMPIRE'S WEAK-

NESS. CROSSES! THE SYMBOL OFGOOD AS OPPOSED TO THE SYM-

BOL OF EVIL. BUT YOU HAVENTANYSUCH CROSS, DOX3U? OPDOYOU?

DOES IT MATTER WHAT SIZE THE

SYMBOL OR IS IT THE 5YAABOL

ITSELF WHICH IS IMPORTANT?

DOES IT MATTEROF WHAT THE

SYMBOL IS MADE, POLISHED SIIVER

OR GOLD-PLATED BRONZE, OR IS

IT THE FORM THAT IS IMPORTANT?THE VAMPIRESS' SHRIEKS ECHO OFF

THE DOMED CEILINGS IN REPLY, AND

SANDRALEE DEVENS FORGETS

ABOUT THE MIRACLE TAKING PLACE

WITHIN HER AND WITNESSES ATRANSFORMATION THAT DEFIES

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 SECOND-

BATE DRACULA FILMS.

Violent sounds echo offthe silent walls'. the beating

wings against the air, the pull

impact of stumbling flesh, the

\mgh-pitch£p shrill

, of the attackingshe-creature. '-

There isn't time to wonder howthis can be happening. razor,

teeth shred flesh and the pain

stimulates action.

Somehow, he manages to gripthe vicious form, his fingers.are wet with blood, yet

HE HOLDS ONTO THE STRUGGLING, SUDDENLY FEARFUL BEING IN HIS HANDS.

IN TERROR, HE REACHES OUTFOR ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT AIDH/M IN DEFEATING THIS CREATURE.

THE WOODEN HANDLE OF THE FLAG-STAFF SLAMS SAVAGELY DOWN ONTOTHE PULSING CHEST BELOW. OVERAND OVER, HE FEELS HIMSELF SLAM-MING THAT POINT OF WOOD DOWN...

Perhaps it is only a temporaryinsanity that has held him. hestaggers away, not wanting towitness his own savagery. thesight will stay with him, heknows, lurking just behind his

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