Ghostly Tales #122

Charlton's Ghostly Tales #122 delivers a deliciously unsettling nautical nightmare, with cover art by Steve Ditko depicting a ship's deck overrun by massive green tentacled creatures closing in on three terrified passengers — a man in a suit, a red-haired woman in pink, and a uniformed figure — while ghostly humanoid forms press in from every side. A small inset panel in the upper left hints at the cloaked host figure who presides over these eerie proceedings. With interior tales written by Joe Gill and illustrated by Enrique Nieto, this 1976 issue of Charlton's long-running horror anthology promises the kind of atmospheric dread the series consistently delivered.