The Witching Hour #26

DC's long-running horror anthology The Witching Hour delivers another unsettling treat with issue #26, featuring a cover by Nick Cardy that captures a genuinely chilling moment: a wide-eyed man in a brown suit tears away a white sheet — "1st Prize" sash and all — to reveal not the beauty queen he expected but a skeletal, green-haired horror, while a cackling witch lurks in the background with her broom. The speech bubbles — "Congratulations! You won first prize!" and "I hope you live to enjoy it!" — add a darkly wry edge that perfectly suits the 1972 DC horror house style. Inside, writer Bill Dennehy and artist/inker Jerry Grandenetti bring their own macabre sensibilities to "End of an Executioner," making this a well-crafted package of spooky fun from cover to last page.