House of Secrets #21

In "The Creature in the Candle," a lone writer investigating ghost towns of the Old West gets a chilling telegraph from another dimension, hinting at a long-buried alien threat that was somehow stopped. Sheldon Moldoff’s moody artwork brings a creeping unease to this eerie tale, while Bill Ely’s haunting cover captures the story’s unsettling tone. A 10-cent comic from 1959, it’s a standout in DC’s early horror anthology series.