Voodoo (Farrell)

(Farrell, 1952-1955)
™ and ©1954 Four Star Publications, Inc.
Series continues as Vooda #20.

Voodoo is a rarity: a horror anthology series that manages to break out from under the shadow of E.C. titles like Tales from the Crypt, while simultaneously avoiding the predictable style of storytelling exemplified by Marvel’s Tales of Suspense or Monsters on the Prowl. Voodoo is…well, it’s just plain weird.

Take the story “Corpses…Coast to Coast!” in which a gravedigger strike gives a man the ghoulish idea of having the unburied bodies shipped to him. There, they are transformed into zombies in his service, an ever-growing army which works to raise more zombies under his control. Eventually, the zombies work to sweep the elections, appointing the man (a zombie himself) president! Another ghoulish tale offers an alternate rendition of the “little old lady who lived in a shoe.” Then there’s “Head of Horror,” in which a scientist studying methods of shrinking heads tries his technique out on his own faithless wife and her lover.

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