Ghostly Haunts #22

Charlton's Ghostly Haunts #22 opens with a genuinely unsettling cover by Steve Ditko — a hunched, shadowy figure stalks through a moonlit graveyard, cloaked and clutching what appears to be a shovel, while desperate warning captions urge readers to hide before "anything he catches outside is doomed." The bold promise of "All New Stories and Art" and the lead feature "The Night of the Lonely Man" set a perfectly eerie tone for this 1972 anthology of spirit-world chills. At just 20 cents, it's a fine snapshot of Charlton's knack for delivering atmospheric horror with real craft.