The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #19

Gold Key's supernatural investigator faces something ancient and enormous in this 1976 chiller from Jesse Santos, whose painted cover pulls you straight into a torchlit grotto where a massive, reptilian leviathan looms from dark waters — its enormous red eye surfacing alongside its armored bulk. A woman struggles desperately in the creature's path while a suited figure holding a flaming torch stands on a rocky ledge above, poised to confront the beast. Don Glut's story, "Loch of the Leviathan," promises exactly the kind of centuries-old horror that makes The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor such a satisfying corner of 1970s Gold Key horror.