The Unexpected #205

DC's long-running anthology of dread delivers a genuinely unsettling cover for this December 1980 issue: a wild-eyed, red-haired girl in a green dress lunges forward with clawed hands raised, while a frightened man recoils and another figure stands coolly in the background, taunting, "Go ahead, Peril — shoot! I dare you!!" The cover, penciled by Jim Janes and inked by Dick Giordano, sets an eerie, moonlit scene against a shadowy mansion that perfectly frames the promised "return trip through hell" of "The Second Possession of Angela Lake!" Fans of J. M. DeMatteis also get a bonus Johnny Peril adventure, making this a packed package of supernatural suspense.