#2

Synopsis

A writer/photographer team are sent to Africa to cover a mysterious serpent-cult ceremony for LIVE magazine. In the desert, a huge stone snake statue had been unearthed after 4,000 years and an ancient snake Goddess emerges turning all of her followers (descendants of her original followers 4,000 years earlier) to snake people. When she tries to do so with the photographer, he is able to drain her poison glands using chemicals from his photographic developing kit, causing her to lose her powers and disintegrate into dust. Her followers are all then restored to human form.

Reprinted in

• Shock #5
• Shock #6
• Haunted Tales #8
• Haunted Tales #11
• Crypt of Horror #18
• Haunted Horror #23
• The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #15
• Gwandanaland Comics #2201

Credits

Pencils

Ken Bald, King Ward, Gus Ricca, Ed Moritz, Frank Sieminsky

Inks

Ken Bald, King Ward, Gus Ricca, Ed Moritz, Frank Sieminsky

Letters

Ed Hamilton

Editor

Richard Hughes