Scary Tales #27

Charlton's Scary Tales #27 delivers a wonderfully unsettling mashup of sci-fi and horror, with Bob Hall's cover depicting a snarling green-skinned creature in a space helmet and purple jumpsuit crouching atop a flying saucer, a full moon looming behind it and a swarm of bats filling the eerie pink sky. The combination of alien menace and gothic atmosphere — complete with a gnarled fence and graveyard shadows — captures exactly the kind of pulpy, anything-goes spirit that made Charlton horror anthologies so entertaining in 1981. Inside, Joe Gill and Demetrio Sánchez Gómez bring you "Card of Death," making this a satisfying package for fans of short, sharp horror storytelling.