Ghostly Tales #69

Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #69 delivers a genuinely unsettling October 1968 cover courtesy of Steve Ditko, who renders a blue-skinned, horned supernatural host in flowing purple and teal robes gesturing ominously at a pair of panel vignettes — one depicting a man seemingly entranced near a woman in red, the other a shadowy domestic scene. The cover caption warns of poor Mr. Reginald Forsythe, ensnared forever by the "Music of Murder," setting a mood that's equal parts eerie and theatrical. Inside, the creative team of writer Joe Gill, artist Charles Nicholas, and inker Vince Alascia bring their own brand of Charlton horror with the story "Labor Problem.