House of Secrets #118

From DC's long-running anthology of chills, House of Secrets #118 (April 1974) arrives with a cover by Luis Dominguez that wastes no time establishing dread — a crowd of terrified onlookers recoils in horror as a towering, shadowy supernatural figure looms across the façade of a building, while a figure on a high balcony is flung helplessly through the air. The tagline "There's No Escape From…" feels entirely earned given the panic etched across every face on that street. With Michael Fleisher, Russell Carley, George Evans, and Ben Oda contributing to the interior, this 20-cent issue promises the kind of unsettling storytelling that made DC's horror anthologies such a reliable thrill in the early 1970s.