Journey into Unknown Worlds #21

Cover by Carl Burgos sets the gleefully unsettling tone: a terrified man in a brown suit recoils in horror as a monstrous, red-suited figure with a ghoulish face looms from atop a pedestal — all framed by an art gallery setting and the teasing banner "Sometimes 'Modern Art!' Can Be Too Modern!!!" This August 1953 issue also promises tales titled "Dead of Winter," "Someone Isn't There," and the interior story "The Most Hated Man in the World," illustrated by Joe Sinnott. For fans of mid-century horror anthologies, this one wears its spooky sense of humor right on its sleeve.