The Werewolf Stalks

[align center] {embed image: 'images/1.jpg'} [continue] Out of the frozen north came a dread thing that was neither man nor beast! A monster without a soul, that killed without remourse and gave no quarter! You'll thrill to this fearful story of the undead... Of a nameless terror that went loping through the night in the full of the moon... With its crimes black upon it! [[Continue->2]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/2.jpg'} [continue] In the frozen timberlands of Northern Canada - A gaunt gray killer stands at bay! Careful lads... CAREFUL! I've got him covered! [[Continue->3]]

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[align center] {embed image: 'images/3.jpg'} [continue] ARRGG! [[Continue->4]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/4.jpg'} [continue] PIERRE! Oh, the poor devil! Those shadows wrecked my aim! We've got him! [[Continue->5]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/5.jpg'} [continue] Biggest timber wolf I ever saw! VICIOUS! If it lept for a man's throat... [[Continue->6]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/6.jpg'} [continue] We took the beast alive... But at what a price! I've been caging and selling wild beasts for twenty years! But every time a man is killed... I feel like a MURDERER! It wasn't your fault Mr. Wilder! The brute moved FASTER THAN IT'S SHADOW! [[Continue->7]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/7.jpg'} [continue] AT THAT MOMENT... IN A NEARBY CABIN... A wreath of garlic! What good will that do woman? Werewolves fear garlic! What was it we heard howling last night? It began as a wolf's cry... But it turned into the cruel laughter of a man! Jacques' laughter! [[Continue->8]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/8.jpg'} [continue] IN THE BLEAK NORTH COUNTRY, ANCIENT BELIEFS DIE SLOWLY! FROM OLD FRANCE THE SETTLERS BROUGHT WITH THEM... A MORTAL FEAR OF THE UNDEAD! I tell you... It was Jacques! Jacques the logger! He was bitten by a wolf... Then disappeared! If it was a werewolf that bit him, he's become a werewolf himself! He was cruel, brutal even as a man! If he roams the timber as a wolf... [[Continue->9]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/9.jpg'} [continue] LATER THAT NIGHT... AT JOHN WILDER'S CAMP... He's a magnificent beast Barbara! Zoos are plenty greedy for timber wolves... We'll get a good price for him in the states! But I can't forget that we captured him... At the cost of a human life! I... I'm terribly tired dear! Let's call it a night! [[Continue->10]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/10.jpg'} [continue] GRRR GGG! [[Continue->11]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/11.jpg'} [continue] ARGH! I... I'm... Changing BACK! No longer a wolf... I'm Jacques! ...Cage me like a BEAST would they? I'LL CLAW THEIR THROATS OUT! [[Continue->12]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/12.jpg'} [continue] CLANG! [[Continue->13]]

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[align center] {embed image: 'images/14.jpg'} [continue] THE WIFE OF THE MAN WHO CAGED ME! When she bears the clawmarks of the UNDEAD... She will run like a beast through the timber! Her hands will become claws, her face... [[Continue->15]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/15.jpg'} [continue] H-HELP HELP! LET ME GO... OHH! [[Continue->16]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/16.jpg'} [continue] BARBARA! She's gone... HELP! JOHN! [[Continue->17]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/17.jpg'} [continue] GREAT SCOTT... He's a GIANT! Can't risk shooting... I'VE GOT TO CLOSE WITH HIM! H-HELP! [[Continue->18]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/18.jpg'} [continue] BANG! CRACK! UGH! You devil... TAKE THAT! [[Continue->19]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/19.jpg'} [continue] AHHH! [[Continue->20]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/20.jpg'} [continue] I've got to get... This wound dressed! I'll DIE if I don't get to a doctor! I'm in BAD shape... Losing strength fast! [[Continue->21]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/21.jpg'} [continue] I-I'M TURNING BACK INTO A WOLF! No control over it! How can I get a doctor to help me if I'm a BEAST without a voice? I'D BE KILLED ON SIGHT! [[Continue->22]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/22.jpg'} [continue] TRAPPED... DESPERATE... THE GHASTLY MONSTER RETURNS TO IT'S CAGE! I'll get the wound dressed... AS A WOLF! Only chance... Got to take it! He won't know I was the MAN he shot! A man like him DOESN'T believe in... GRRR! CLANG! [[Continue->23]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/23.jpg'} [continue] THE CAMP IS AROUSED BY AN ANGONIZED HOWLING! WOUNDED! GREAT SCOTT... I remember now! My gun went off twice when I struggled with that lumberjack! A stray bullet must have lodged in the beast! [[Continue->24]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/24.jpg'} [continue] There! I've got the bullet out and sterilized the wound! Those dressings will have to be changed once a day, but I guess I can handle it! In a week you'll be at sea, sir! It will be tough on you... If he turns ugly with a rolling deck under him! [[Continue->25]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/25.jpg'} [continue] TEN DAYS LATER... AS THE SHIP NEARS THE GOLDEN GATE... The beast's wound must be nearly healed! I believe I've made friends with it! It never snarls at me! I'm going to see if... W-WHAT'S THAT? GRRR... GGGG! [[Continue->26]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/27.jpg'} [continue] JOHN! JOHN! H-HELP! [[Continue->28]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/28.jpg'} [continue] OH-HH! [[Continue->29]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/29.jpg'} [continue] The ship's docking! You'd better get her into a taxi! She was shaken up a bit... But she'll be all right now! Nerves, mostly! She saw a shadow... And in her nervous state, well... YOU know how women are! I think I do, Doctor! [[Continue->30]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/30.jpg'} [continue] TEN DAYS LATER... AT A WEST COAST ZOO... I never saw a more VICIOUS looking beast! Look at him! He'd like to get at us! A beast like that could kill a man with a single blow! [[Continue->31]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/31.jpg'} [continue] THAT NIGHT... CLICK! [[Continue->32]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/32.jpg'} [continue] GRRR! [[Continue->33]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/33.jpg'} [continue] ON THE SLEEPING CITY... A GHASTLY TERROR OF RENDING CLAWS SLASHING OUT OF THE DARKNESS... OF RUNNING FEET... OF SCREAMS THAT START AND END ABRUPTLY... AS THOUGH CHOKED OFF! AND OVER ALL, THE SHADOW OF SOMETHING MONSTROUS... AND AS MERCILESS AS THE ARCTIC NIGHT AGGH! NO! NO! HELP! GRRR! [[Continue->34]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/35.jpg'} [continue] BLAM! GRRR-RROW! [[Continue->36]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/36.jpg'} [continue] LATER THAT NIGHT... IN JOHN WILDER'S HOME... I'm going upstairs to bed! I'm sorry the wolf escaped, but my responsibility ended when I sold it to the zoo! If you want to sit here listening to that radio blare... Go ahead! You know as well as I do the wolf had nothing to do with those slayings! It DID have something to do with them John! [[Continue->37]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/37.jpg'} [continue] I tell you... I'M FRIGHTENED! It WASN'T a shadow I saw on the ship! Why won't you BELIEVE me? The WEREWOLF legend is as old as mankind! There MUST be SOME truth in it! [[Continue->38]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/38.jpg'} [continue] TERROR-FRAUGHT MOMENTS LATER... THE WOLF HAS BEEN WOUNDED THE DETAILS ARE JUST COMING IN! APPARENTLY IT GOT AWAY, BUT... W-WOUNDED! When it was wounded before John dressed the wound! What if it should come HERE? If it's REALLY a werewolf... IT WILL KNOW THE WAY! [[Continue->39]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/39.jpg'} [continue] SCRATCH! SCRATCH! There's something at the window! SOMETHING OUT THERE! SOMETHING THAT'S... OH! [[Continue->40]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/40.jpg'} [continue] JOHN! JOHN! HELP ME! [[Continue->41]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/41.jpg'} [continue] CAN'T HOLD OFF... MUCH LONGER! J-JOHN... [[Continue->42]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/42.jpg'} [continue] BARBARA! KEEP BACKING UP! STAY AWAY FROM IT! I'VE GOT TO GET TO THAT TABLE! [[Continue->43]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/43.jpg'} [continue] I'VE GOT IT! A SILVER PAPER KNIFE! BACK, BARBARA... HERE HE COMES! GRRRRR! [[Continue->44]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/44.jpg'} [continue] I'M DONE FOR... IF HE GETS MY THROAT! GOT TO... GET HIM FIRST! UGH! CRASH! [[Continue->45]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/45.jpg'} [continue] GRRRARGGG! [[Continue->46]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/46.jpg'} [continue] MERCIFUL HEAVENS! LOOK! [[Continue->47]]

[align center] {embed image: 'images/47.jpg'} [continue] IN DEATH... JACQUES SHEDS THE MARK OF THE BEAST... AND FINDS RELEASE FROM HIS TORMENT! A silver knife! Anything silver is fatal to the undead! You knew? But you didn't believe in the undead! W-what opened your eyes? Sheer desperation I guess! I...I DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE YOU DARLING! THE END!