House of Mystery #277

DC's long-running horror anthology returns with issue #277, and Steve Ditko's cover delivers an instantly unsettling image: a lone man in a blue suit, arms raised in terror, surrounded on all sides by enormous, leering demonic faces with gaping mouths and bulging eyes closing in around him. The cover copy promises he's "cursed to perform before an audience of demons," teasing the featured story "Limited Engagement" — a premise that feels perfectly at home in the House of Mystery. Inside, Robert Kanigher, Martin Pasko, Howard Chaykin, and collaborators bring the chills to life in what shapes up to be a genuinely creepy February 1980 read.