Haunted #59

Charlton's Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library delivers another dose of supernatural dread with issue #59, cover-penciled by Dan Reed and inked by John Beatty. The cover pulls you right in: a terrified blonde woman in red and a wide-eyed man in a blue suit are engulfed by swirling, toxic-green tendrils of some unknown entity, their mouths open in sheer panic against a shadowy urban backdrop. The tagline — "It was spawned in a laboratory by the 'Man Who Played God'" — sets up a tale of science gone terribly wrong, making this 1982 entry a fine showcase of Charlton's knack for stylish, unsettling horror.