Dr. Haunt

Dr. Haunt is a horror-host figure from Charlton Comics who presided over macabre anthology tales in This Magazine Is Haunted, serving as the eerie guide through the supernatural stories within its pages.

Few characters carry a name quite so perfectly suited to their world as Dr. Haunt, who materialized in the pages of This Magazine Is Haunted #15 in 1954 — right in the thick of the Golden Age's love affair with the macabre — courtesy of creator Bob McCarthy and Charlton Comics, that scrappy publisher with a genuine gift for the eerie and uncanny. Over a remarkable span stretching across six-plus decades, Dr. Haunt haunted the anthology titles that defined Charlton's horror legacy — This Magazine Is Haunted, Ghost Manor, and Ghostly Tales — keeping some genuinely atmospheric company along the way, including the likes of Mr. L. Dedd, Mr. Bones, and even Stephen Strange. Twelve catalog appearances may sound modest, but for a Charlton horror figure who endured from the Eisenhower era all the way to 2019, that's the quiet persistence of a character with real staying power in the genre's margins — exactly the kind of deep-cut discovery that makes digging through Charlton's haunted house of titles so rewarding for collectors.