The Witching Hour #31

DC's long-running horror anthology reaches its 31st issue with a genuinely unsettling cover by Nick Cardy: a boy sits calmly in an armchair, absorbed in books titled "Arts of Witchcraft and Sorcery" and "Black Magic," while a gaunt, candle-holding specter looms behind him and a frightened woman at the door pleads to be let in to meet his "new schoolteacher." The story featured inside, "Red Is for Dead!," is written by Carl Wessler with art and inks by Alex Niño, a pairing that promises the kind of eerie, atmospheric horror DC's Witching Hour anthologies did so well in 1973. If midnight chills and slow-burn supernatural dread are your thing, this one sets the mood perfectly.