Dark Jungle
A musical satire of 1930's Jungle movies, Doctor Charles Grande’s memoir of his perilous expeditions through the darkest corners of 1930s Africa. Part memoir, part fever dream, Dark Jungle spoofs vintage jungle serials and films, with explorers, songs, jungle cults, the Queen of Evil, puppets, radiation poisoning, the world’s ugliest woman, Dr. Koku’s voodoo spell of auto-animation, and a Ritual Trial of Fecundity. 64 pgs.
“Africa is a dangerous and frightening place. It is home to vicious, unimaginable creatures: Dendroaspis polylepis or Black Mamba, the fastest and deadliest snake in the world; Formicidae Dorylinae- fire ants that move in armies of 20 million eating anything in their path including litters of puppies and sleeping children. And the most dangerous creature of all - Anthropophagous Homo Sapiens - the legendary human cannibal. I can assure you cannibals are no myth for I have lived among them. Of the horrible things I have seen in my career the cannibal’s ritualized killing and eating of his own species is among the worst. Terrible! Terrible. The heart of the savage jungle is not a thing a man can know and stay sane but I did. With me you will visit the bizarre, the savage and the unexplained as I take you into the treacherous world of my expeditions. We travel together into the peril called - Dark Jungle.”
Dr. Charles Grande