Also this issue: a woman goes about becoming a b-girl the wrong way--wait, I think I mean something else. From 1975,
House of Secrets #129. Cover by Luis Dominguez.
"Almost Human" is a spin on a fairly typical horror plot: the hidden village of mysterious tribesmen, who may have secrets unknown to modern man. In this case, it's a tribe of bee people, somehow evolved from insects: an entomologist thinks their royal jelly could be a cure for most diseases and aging, and is willing to sacrifice her party to get it if need be. She kills a guy to keep him from hurting one, then gets captured by the bee people, who give her exactly what she wanted, which doesn't turn out exactly as she expected. (Written by Jack Oleck, art by Franc Reyes.)
After some Sergio Aragones' shorts, we then get "The Lottery," which isn't
Shirley Jackson's version but it's close. A businessman says goodbye to his beloved wife and kids before getting on the train for a business trip, but ends up on the wrong train and instead of Springfield (not that one...well, maybe) he gets stuck in small town Plumber's Junction. Stranded until the next train comes through, at least the town was having some kind of festival, complete with a lottery with a $50,000 prize! The man wants a ticket for that action, but is warned this was usually just for the locals...well, it'll probably be okay. Of course he wins, and the prize is legit, but it's going to his family, since the man is clonked on the head, and left trussed up in a cemetery for the local vampire! The locals feel kinda bad about it, but overall one victim a year was better than the vampire picking people off all willy-nilly and such, and the family was taken care of, so...They maybe should put some of that on the lottery tickets, in the fine print maybe. (Written by Michael Fleisher and Russell Carley, art by Ernie Chan.)
That page is pretty good, although I feel like you could write like a dozen of these that use it! All roads lead to the graveyard, I suppose.
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Despite their outward appearances, I’d like to the two figures on the covering are actually trying to keep that guy from making bad decisions 🤷♂️
Sergio Aragones art appearing in a horror anthology (more or less) will never not feel out of place to me, but I guess it serves as a palate-cleanser for the reader in between stories….
Definitely a nice supernatural twist on the Lottery and at least his family got financially compensated for their loss.
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