HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Mandrake - Oliver Sherry

THE STORY: Research student of the arcane arts, and sometime occult detective, Tom Annesley has traveled from America at the request of some friends in London to search for their missing friend Hilda Brown. His search takes him to the town of Haddeston where he encounters a powerful sorcerer who has penetrated the darkest secrets of alchemy and Black Magic and discovered how to create and prolong life with the aid of a mandrake root. A series of hair-raising adventures ensues as Tom and his new found friends, Ethel Derrington and Rev. Hamilton Sturt, set out to put an end to Baron Habdymos and his rampant evil.THE CHARACTERS: Mandrake (1929) is modeled on both early 19th century fairy tales and Victorian era "penny dreadful" shockers. Baron Habdymos, a thoroughly venal and evil sorcerer bent on dominating all mortal men, outdoes anything Dr. Nikola or Fu Manchu accomplished in any of their occult thrillers. In creating this master of the Black Arts Oliver Sherry has added one of the…