Jungle Stories, Spring 1948

Jungle Stories, Spring 1948 This issue contains the featured novel "Slave of the Jackal Priestess" by John Peter Drummond, starring Ki-Gor, the White Lord of the Jungle. The narrative opens with Ki-Gor blinded and desperate, hunted by Momba N'Gar, who has decreed death for Ki-Gor's mate Helene. The story begins at dawn in the African veldt with sacred drums and stampeding rhinos. Three novelets accompany the main feature: "Slayer by Stealth" by Wilton Hazzard concerns two men pursuing a blood-trail into forbidden territory while evading the Headless Vultures of Umzinto; "Three Lion's Teeth" by Cordwell Staples follows Jim Ford's safari tracking a White Fetish to a cursed kraal where drums of death threaten Bwana Helen; and "The Sorcerer of Kambara" by Dan Cushman depicts trader Johnny Starr attempting to save gem-queen Paulette Payan from the Black Sorcerer's curse. Edgar Wallace's "The Magic of Fear" provides a voodoo-themed short story completing the issue.