The King of the Living Dead was an ancient man condemned for practicing black magic, buried alive. The caverns where he was buried had fumes from a pit, with blue flames which kept him alive for eons. After an erthquake freed him from his tomb, he made use of a mortal body to observe modern man and began to build his army. He would send his undead servants to collect victims. Some victims would be killed, and others thrown into “an underground pit filled with sulfurous smoke and a strange flickering blue flame” that changed their bodies into pale, undead slaves. One of his captives was a ballerina whose fiance, Walter Austen, followed her into the caverns. As the couple fled the King and his hordes, Walter triggered a cave-in, flooding the caverns with water and filth, seemingly destroying the undead and their master for good.
Description The King of the Living Dead was an ancient man condemned for practicing black magic, buried alive. The caverns where he was buried had fumes from a pit, with blue flames which kept him alive for eons. After an erthquake freed him from his tomb, he made use of a mortal body to observe modern man and began to build his army. He would send his undead servants to collect victims. Some victims would be killed, and others thrown into “an underground pit filled with sulfurous smoke and a strange flickering blue flame” that changed their bodies into pale, undead slaves. One of his captives was a ballerina whose fiance, Walter Austen, followed her into the caverns. As the couple fled the King and his hordes, Walter triggered a cave-in, flooding the caverns with water and filth, seemingly destroying the undead and their master for good.
