From Baffling Mysteries #11 (November 1952), here’s “Red Talons of Lupercalia,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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"This day's experience, set in order, none of it left ragged or lying about, all of it gathered in like treasure and finished with, set aside." –Alice Munro, "What is Remembered"
From Baffling Mysteries #11 (November 1952), here’s “Red Talons of Lupercalia,” with art by Louis Zansky:
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To view all of the stories with art by Louis Zansky that I’ve posted so far, start here.
Hilarious, with all the clichés intact. As well as some serious confusion.
Set in Czechoslovakia, which isn’t in the Balkans or even eastern Europe. And didn’t have a lot of villages with Bavarian-looking peasants staking corpses, or dissolute counts living in spooky castles. Especially not in the fifties, when it was a communist country.
And why would vampires want to disinter and mutilate bodies? Surely they need fresh blood.
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