King Diamond
Voodoo
Voodoo takes place in the year 1932 and deals with the affairs
of the Lafayettes, a family consisting of Sarah (who is pregnant),
David, and Grandpa. They move to an old colonial house on the
Mississippi River, just north of Baton Rouge, which also happens to have been built next to a
voodoo graveyard.
Unknown to the Lafayettes, the colonial house's servant, Salem, is
involved in voodoo. Salem partakes in voodoo rituals at the graveyard,
along with
Doctor le Croix, a voodoo sorcerer, Madame Sarita, and Lula Chevalier, a girl who is never seen.
The Lafayettes hear the voodoo drums from the ceremonies in the
graveyard. They call a secret meeting with Salem to discuss what should
be done. The Lafayettes decide to destroy the voodoo burial ground.
Salem does not want this to happen, so he sneaks out at midnight to talk
to Doctor le Croix. Le Croix gives Salem money to buy some
goofer dust, and tells him that the Lafayettes must all die.
Salem puts a snake in David's room, mixes haunted graveyard dirt in
Grandpa's food, and, after talking to the dead Baron Samedi, pours
goofer dust on Sarah while she sleeps. David and Grandpa become very
ill, and Sarah becomes possessed with a
voodoo spirit.
Grandpa manages to call Father Malone, an
exorcist.
Father Malone travels to the colonial house to rid Sarah of her
possessor. He fails, and is rendered unconscious from exhaustion. While
he is unconscious, Lula brings the heavy, nail-riddled ceremonial cross
of
Baron Samedi
to the possessed Sarah. Sarah attacks Malone with the cross, almost
killing him. Grandpa comes in and tells Sarah to stop, and she does,
which saves Father Malone's life. Grandpa calls the police and
ambulance, which arrive two hours later.
The story concludes with Salem speaking about the aftermath of the
situation, which also reveals that he escaped the events of the mansion.
He explains that the Lafayettes abandoned the old colonial house after
leaving the hospital. Sarah's child was born and it was speaking "in the
strangest tongue...backwards. Some expert had uttered the
word...'Voodoo'..."
