Vampirella #40

Warren Magazine's Vampirella #40 (1975) arrives dressed in holiday packaging but delivers anything but yuletide cheer — cover artist Enrich Torres paints a deeply unsettling tableau of a vulnerable young woman crouched on the ground while a towering, red-robed masked figure looms ominously behind her against a blood-orange sky. The cover copy promises six illustrated horror stories, including "The Face of Death!," a Dracula-as-carnival-freak tale, circus slaughter, and more — a genuinely packed Christmas special that leans hard into Warren's signature blend of pulp dread and dark fantasy. Torres's painted atmosphere alone makes this a striking artifact of 1975 horror comics.