The Unexpected #109

DC's long-running horror anthology The Unexpected delivers a thoroughly unsettling November 1968 cover, with Jack Sparling's pencils and inks depicting a terrified man recoiling on a darkened staircase as a ghoulish, wild-haired woman lunges toward him — a lone candle on the step below casting eerie green shadows, while a sinister spider lurks at the bottom. The cover's speech balloon taunts, "Here comes your dream girl — she's all yours now, for better or for WORSE!" alongside the story title "Die, Dream Girl — Die!" Inside, writer Dave Wood and artist/inker Bill Draut bring you "Baptism by Starfire!" — one of the chilling tales that made this anthology a reliable destination for readers with a taste for the strange in 1968.