Vampirella #16

Warren Publishing's Vampirella #16 (April 1972) delivers a genuinely unsettling cover by Manuel Sanjulián: a caped, imperious Dracula looms over a chained and helpless Vampirella stretched across a stone slab, his dark wings spread wide as if commanding the shadows themselves. The cover text promises that Dracula is calling forth a mad demon god — a menacing tableau rendered with Sanjulián's characteristically moody, painterly atmosphere. Inside, writer Jan Strnad and artist Rafael Auraleón bring you "The Gray Women," alongside what the cover boldly bills as one of the most beautiful horror stories ever told — "Cilia.