Pulp Villains: Thugee (3e)
They strangle unsuspecting travelers on dark country roads. They glide though New York's glittering streets clinging to shadows¸ carrying fear and death in their yellow scarves. They are brutal thugs masking their villainy behind a façade of ancient mysticism.
"They are the Thugee¸ a cult of murders whose history and myth stretch back thousands of years. By the end of the 19th century the terrible cult had vanished from India. In the fictional world of the pulps¸ though¸ the cult persisted into the modern world.