House of Mystery #217

DC's long-running horror anthology returns with issue #217, and Bernie Wrightson's cover makes an immediate impression: a massive, gnarled tree-creature with a dripping, fang-filled maw looms over a murky swamp as two young women desperately scramble to escape its reaching root-like claws. The atmosphere is genuinely unsettling — all rot and shadow and sickly yellows against deep swamp green — the kind of image that earns the title's challenge, "Do You Dare Enter…?" Inside, writer Sheldon Mayer and artist Nestor Redondo bring their own talents to bear on "This Ghost-Town Is Haunted!", promising the eerie storytelling that made 1973 a strong year for DC horror fans.