Beware! Terror Tales #7

A lurid full moon illuminates this May 1953 Fawcett anthology as a terrified woman in a red striped blouse recoils from a robed, skull-faced specter looming over a field of scattered human skulls, while bats swarm overhead and a leering mummy — promising to warn you to beware — peers from the corner medallion. Bob McCarty's cover art packs every inch with dread: gnarled tree roots, dripping slime, and that ominous Grim Reaper figure make this one of the more atmospherically dense horror covers of its era. Inside, Bill Woolfolk and Maurice Gutwirth bring you "The Man Who Defeated Death!" — a title that raises some very unsettling questions.