The Unexpected #186

Two men dig frantically by lantern light beneath a full moon, unaware that a massive, dripping swamp creature looms over them in the darkness — it's a genuinely unsettling setup that captures everything DC's anthology horror line did so well in 1978. The cover tagline "Death Is Grave a Matter" and the diggers' urgent dialogue hint at buried secrets best left undisturbed, while Luis Dominguez's moody linework gives the lurching figure a real sense of dread. A solid entry in The Unexpected's long run of creepy one-shot chills, featuring interior work by Fred Carrillo on the story "To Catch a Corpse.