Ghost Stories #22

Dell's Ghost Stories has always delivered atmospheric chills, and this October 1969 issue is no exception — the cover presents a towering, faceless specter draped in billowing white shrouds looming over a graveyard, with bats cutting through the murky sky and a small human figure cowering below, awash in an eerie golden glow. The tagline "Amazing Tales of Things… Too Strange to Believe!" sets the mood perfectly for the interior tale, "37 Pounds of Devotion…," written by Carl Memling with art and inks by Gerald McCann. If you appreciate supernatural anthology comics with genuinely unsettling atmosphere, this one belongs on your reading pile.