Haunted #14

Charlton's Haunted #14 from 1973 delivers a wonderfully eerie cover by Steve Ditko, framed like a giant teardrop or windshield: a wide-eyed, horrified driver grips the wheel while a looming spectral figure stretches across the fog-drenched background behind him — exactly the kind of dread-soaked imagery Ditko made his own. The featured story, "The Hitchhiker!!", promises the sort of supernatural chill that made Charlton's horror anthologies a reliable thrill for twenty cents. Inside, writer Joe Gill and artist Steve Ditko — with lettering by Charlotte Jetter — bring their considerable talents to bear on what looks to be a genuinely unsettling encounter on a haunted road.