Ghost Manor #22

Charlton's Ghost Manor #22 (1975) serves up a dinner party you'd rather decline — the cover by Don Newton depicts a gaunt, unsettling host presenting a tray to a skull-faced, blue-haired skeletal guest seated at a candlelit table strewn with broken dishes and bony hands, while a small vignette in the upper corner teases another eerie figure. Newton's linework gives the scene a wonderfully macabre atmosphere, all deep shadows and ghoulish detail. Inside, writer and artist Nicola Cuti and Don Newton bring you "A Shocking Tale" — so if you dare answer the title's invitation, pull up a chair.