Tales of the Unexpected #36

From DC's late-1950s science-fiction anthology comes this eerie April 1959 issue, its cover by Lee Elias depicting a towering, pink-skinned alien creature crouching beside a lighthouse and lifting a small ship in its enormous hands — while a terrified crewman cries out that giant aliens are using a beacon to haul their vessel into the air. The featured story is "Prisoners of the Lighthouse Creatures," and that cover scene captures the unsettling blend of the nautical and the otherworldly that made Tales of the Unexpected such a compelling read in 1959. If strange encounters and pulpy sci-fi dread are your thing, this one absolutely delivers on its promise.