The Unexpected #153

DC's long-running horror anthology delivers another unsettling chapter with The Unexpected #153, December 1973. Nick Cardy's cover pulls no punches — a terrified blond man, chained at the ankle, scrambles desperately across the ground toward the viewer while giant ants close in from the right and a small animal skeleton lies bleached in the foreground, the bold tagline daring readers: "Have you the nerve to face the Black Hole of Wrath?" Inside, E. R. Cruz brings George Kashdan's story "Who's That Sleeping in My Grave?" to life, promising the kind of creepy, twist-laden terror that made DC's mystery titles a staple of 1973 spinner racks.