Scary Tales #44

Charlton's Scary Tales #44 (1984) delivers the kind of visceral horror the anthology series did so well, with a cover by Rich Larson that grabs you immediately: a screaming man in a purple jacket is engulfed by writhing green insectoid limbs, their long clawed appendages coiling around his face and body in a genuinely unsettling display of botanical terror. Inside, Joe Gill and José Delbo bring you "Dr. Hiji's Secret Garden," a title that hints at something sinister lurking beneath a cultivated surface. At 60 cents, this is Charlton horror doing what it does best — creeping dread wrapped in vivid, imaginative artwork.