Ghost Stories #7

Dell's Ghost Stories serves up a wonderfully unsettling slice of early-1960s supernatural atmosphere with this July–September 1964 entry. The cover, rendered by Gerald McCann, pulls you right into a lurid green cityscape where a giant black cat lunges forward with claws extended, a terrified figure scrambles to flee, and a faceless white-shrouded specter looms behind them — three elements that together make the tagline "Haunted by a Ghost That Wasn't There!" feel genuinely eerie. If moody, pulp-tinged horror anthologies are your thing, this 12-cent issue is a fine snapshot of Dell doing the genre with real atmosphere.