Sometimes, in some dark room, he seemed to make out lumps a little darker than the surrounding darkness.

And once he heard a faint hiss that shouldn't have been meant for him.

Nonetheless, he continued his advance, gripping the butt of the automatic pistol firmly.

"The whole of Africa is turned upside down here," he thought suddenly, perceiving, more with his temples than with his ears, a kind of distant throbbing, something like a gigantic heart beating somewhere in that jumble of alleys.

He rounded the corner and found himself plunged into almost complete darkness ...

Voodoo is a story belonging to the Horror collection, a collection of horror and mystery novels.