Ghost Stories #33

Dell's Ghost Stories brings its signature blend of the supernatural and the everyday together in unsettling fashion with this 1972 issue. Frank Springer's cover plunges us into a racetrack gone horrifyingly wrong — a terrified driver screams "It can't be happening to me!" as a massive skeletal specter waves a checkered flag over a flaming, overturned race car, while other cars race below a grandstand full of oblivious spectators. Promising "weird tales of suspense and mystery" that "nothing on Earth can explain," this issue — featuring the story "The Deadly Last Race" — is a genuinely chilling package for fans of mid-century horror anthologies.