Ghosts #17

DC's long-running anthology of the strange and supernatural delivers another chilling chapter with Ghosts #17, cover-dated August 1973. Nick Cardy's cover pulls you right into the dread — a wild-haired, hollow-eyed specter in a green dress looms over two terrified figures scrambling through a dark cavern, while ghostly disembodied hands claw their way out of the stone wall beside them, and one of the fleeing figures clutches a lantern as if it's their only lifeline. Inside, Leo Dorfman and Alfredo Alcala bring you "Death Held the Lantern High," alongside two more "true tales of the weird and supernatural" — "The Specters Were the Stars" and a guide to "The Devil's Ouija.