Strange Tales #7

This June 1952 Atlas anthology delivers exactly what its tagline promises — "Strange Tales of Startling Suspense!" — with a cover showing a terrified woman and man backing away in a dark alley from a massive, swirling ghostly creature with grasping claws, the yellow caption demanding: "Who Stands in the Shadows?" Sidebar panels tease further delights, including a grotesque green-faced figure labeled "The Horrible Man!" and a portly fellow menaced by bats for "My Brother Talks to Bats!" The cover art, credited to Bill Everett, Carl Burgos, and Chris Rule, captures the era's appetite for eerie thrills in vivid, unsettling style.