Strange Suspense Stories #46

Charlton's Strange Suspense Stories #46 (1960) promises an unsettling mix of the uncanny and the everyday, and the cover sets the mood perfectly — a bound man lies helpless on the ground while a group of sharply dressed little people stand over him in a woodland clearing, one holding a document and declaring him "Guilty!" The featured story, "The Little People and John Wyqant," is teased right on the cover, with the tiny tribunal apparently incensed that Wyqant has portrayed their kind as sneaky thieves in his films. Cover art by Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio gives the scene a wonderfully eerie storybook quality, and with Joe Gill writing and Charles Nicholas and Sal Trapani on interiors, there's plenty more strangeness inside beyond just this tale.