House of Mystery #57

A mysterious glowing hand reaches from off-panel to compel a bewildered man to carve wooden duplicates of wild animals — a lion and bears looming around him — in this unsettling 1956 DC anthology from the golden age of strange tales. Nick Cardy's cover perfectly captures that queasy blend of the uncanny and the everyday, with the protagonist's own speech bubble asking the question readers will be dying to answer: what strange power is at work here? Alongside the cover story "The Secret Carved in Wood," this issue also promises "The Ageless Man" and "The Unnamed," making it a fine triple helping of eerie mystery for a dime.