Chamber of Chills #4

Marvel's *Chamber of Chills* #4 (May 1973) promises a shivery double dose of literary dread, billing itself as a tale drawing on both John Jakes and Edgar Allan Poe for "The Opener of the Crypt!" Frank Brunner's cover sets the mood perfectly: a shrieking man recoils in terror as a massive, ghostly skeletal specter erupts from an open barrel, snarling "At last Montresor — I take my revenge!", while a cluster of grinning, flame-wreathed skeletal figures claw toward him from the shadows. At just 20 cents, this is early-'70s Marvel horror atmosphere at its most viscerally unsettling.