Haunted #16

Charlton's Haunted #16 from 1974 delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Steve Ditko, showing a terrified man in a red jacket pressed hard against a looming blue panel, where a sinister horned face seems to materialize in glowing yellow-green lines — with a small, eerie demonic figure lurking in the upper corner for good measure. The story inside, "Nightmare," is crafted by writer Joe Gill and artist Bill Molno, promising the kind of atmospheric horror Charlton did so well in this era. If creeping dread and supernatural menace are your thing, this one makes a strong case for itself right from the cover.