Ghost Manor #2

Charlton's Ghost Manor #2 invites brave readers to visit its haunted halls "…if you dare!!" with a cover by Steve Ditko that earns every exclamation point — a massive shadowy creature with glowing eyes looms over a swirling vortex of terrified figures, while a gaunt, skull-faced host calmly presents what appears to be a record album on the right, and a wide-eyed man's face stares out from the center of the chaos alongside a snarling panther's visage. The promise of "all new stories and art" is well kept, with Joe Gill writing and Ditko handling interior art and inks, including the featured chiller teased on the cover: "A Touch of Genius." For fans of 1971 anthology horror, this twenty-cent Charlton offering packs an impressive amount of dread into a single, wonderfully unsettling package.