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Selección Terror: Locura en la Madrugada
Museum Catalog Note *Locura en la Madrugada* (Madness at Dawn), by Ralph Barby, is a horror-thriller serialized in *Selección Terror* magazine (issue 294, October 1978). The narrative follows Yiddy Foyers, a simpleminded funeral home employee in western England, who drives a hearse carrying a female corpse to Cornwall. After a tire blowout, Yiddy stops at a rural bar-inn where he encounters a group of young international travelers—French, German, and others—who are drinking heavily. Despite the bar owner's evident discomfort with the hearse's presence, the intoxicated youths invite Yiddy to join their revelry. Growing progressively drunk on beer and whisky, Yiddy abandons his delivery schedule and follows the group to an abandoned cemetery, where they plan to dig a grave and "bury" the corpse. The narrative deteriorates into chaotic drunken revelry with the four young women taunting Yiddy, culminating in pursuit and physical horseplay at the cemetery gates.