House of Mystery #253

Neal Adams delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for this 1977 DC Dollar Comics entry — a terrified woman recoils in horror from a crib where an eerie, greenish infant reaches toward her with an unnervingly large, grasping hand, a stuffed monkey watching silently from the shadows. At a dollar for 80 pages of all-new stories, House of Mystery #253 promises "Beware the Demon Child" plus seven other shockers, including "Grave Labor!" by writer E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Bill Draut. It's a fine package of anthology horror that captures everything spine-tingling about DC's mystery titles of the era.