Ghost Stories #16

Dell's Ghost Stories #16 from December 1966 delivers a wonderfully unsettling cover by Frank Springer — a shambling mummy advances from its ornate Egyptian sarcophagus toward a terrified man in a suit, while a skeletal, shrouded ghost looms overhead with a gleeful "Heh heh heh." The tagline sets the mood perfectly: "Weird, strange, odd… but real? Who knows but the ghost?" With a story titled "Command from the Grave" waiting inside, this 12-cent Dell anthology issue is a charming snapshot of Silver Age horror comics at their atmospheric best.