Ghost Stories #5

Dell's Ghost Stories serves up atmospheric dread in this January–March 1964 issue, where a massive, hollow-eyed apparition looms over a red sports car as the terrified driver scrambles to escape its swirling, shroud-like form. The cover promises tales that will "shock and astound you," and the collision of everyday life — a sleek roadster, a panicked figure — against something genuinely otherworldly delivers on that promise before you've even opened the cover. Inside, writer Carl Memling and artist Gerald McCann bring their talents to "Pelham's Prediction," making this a fine entry in Dell's quietly chilling supernatural anthology series.