Ghostly Tales #81

Charlton's Ghostly Tales from the Haunted House #81 (1970) serves up graveyard dread in fine form, with Jim Aparo's cover depicting a hunched, desperate figure — identified in the cover text as poor Everett Harcutt — raging beside a tombstone while a skeletal, red-caped demon looms ominously in the foreground. The bold caption teases "The 3rd Grave," hinting at a man pushed past his breaking point by disease and suffering. At just 15 cents, this Charlton horror anthology delivers that perfectly unsettling blend of the macabre and the mournful that made the title a staple of 1970 spinner racks.