Creepy Vol 1 17

Creepy Vol 1 #17

October, 1967

Cover Artists

Frank Frazetta

Publisher

Warren Publishing

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Appearing in "Zombies!"

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Synopsis for "Zombies!"

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A pair of men watch a voodoo ritual, but one of the men takes a picture, which causes them to realize they're present. His companion is killed, but he manages to escape. When zombies start coming after him, he jumps into what he thinks is salt water, thinking the salt will stop them. Alas, he actually jumped into a river, which is fresh water, and the zombies are able to get him.

Appearing in "Thundering Terror!"

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Synopsis for "Thundering Terror!"

This story is about an old man who tells of his brother, who was obsessed with killing buffaloes. One such encounter resulted in the death of a man who was trying to stop him. Over the years our narrator becomes successful and grows a family while his brother vanishes and returns from time to time, always doing nothing but hunting buffaloes. An old man, our narrator finds his brother dead after he tries to hunt one last buffalo, and sees the ghost of the dead man on a ledge above him.

Appearing in "Mummy's Hand"

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Synopsis for "Mummy's Hand"

It features the mummy coming back to life, going on a rampage, and eventually being defeated.

Appearing in "Heritage of Horror!"

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Synopsis for "Heritage of Horror!"

A young woman has horrific visions of her husband as an axe murderer. She finds out the truth, that he isn't one, but it ends up he's a hangman instead, and makes her his next victim.

Appearing in "Image in Wax!"

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Synopsis for "Image in Wax!"

A man is jealous of a competitor's ability to create realistic, but horrific wax creatures. He decides to murder the man by setting the place on fire, and kills him, but the man melts, revealing him to be a skeleton covered in wax. The competitor was actually brought back from the dead to watch over the wax figures, who are actually real monsters, and with him dying the monsters force the killer to take over taking care of them, making him a wax man too.

Appearing in "A Night's Lodging!"

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Synopsis for "A Night's Lodging!"

This story is about a man who is confronted by vampires after getting into an accident with his carriage. He tells them if they let him live he'll build them a hotel and bring many victims to him. He does so, but is eventually turned into a vampire himself.

Appearing in "The Haunted Sky!"

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Synopsis for "The Haunted Sky!"

A pilot encounters his dead colleagues while aflight in an experimental airplane. Although the doctors don't initially believe him, there is proof left behind of the ghost's existence.

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