House of Secrets #105

A tranquil fishing trip turns quietly sinister on Jack Sparling's cover for this 1973 DC anthology: beneath three unsuspecting anglers in a rowboat, a massive skull lurks just below the water's surface, draped in lily pads and crowned with a green cap, its eye socket snagged by a fishing lure while a frog watches from the shallows nearby. The tagline "There's No Escape From… The House of Secrets" says it all — what looks like a peaceful afternoon on the lake is something far more unsettling. Inside, writer Maxene Fabe and artist Gerry Talaoc bring the chills with a tale ominously titled "Vampire," making this an eerie little package from DC's early-'70s horror anthology era.