The Witching Hour #8

This May 1970 DC anthology serves up a genuinely unsettling cover by Neal Adams: a wide-eyed old woman in a purple dress, chained behind a bolted door, cries out "Winifred…! Why am I locked in—? What's going on out there?" — while through the gap we glimpse exactly why she should be worried, as a crowd of grotesque green monsters mingles casually with a bewildered maid and other household figures in the next room. The tension between the woman's helpless terror and the eerie domestic normalcy playing out just beyond her reach is the kind of delicious horror-anthology setup DC's The Witching Hour did so well in 1970. Inside, writer Ron Whyte and artist Jack Sparling bring the chills to life in "Above and Beyond the Call of Duty!" — a fine fifteen-cent package of supernatural dread.