Again, I guess they're challenging you to read "true tales of the weird and supernatural," not necessarily delivering them.

Traditionally, in ghost stories, anybody scoffing at the idea that they were "true" is going to get the pants scared off of them later. I doubt that's going to happen here, but who am I to say? From 1976, Ghosts #50.

The GCD credits Buddy Gernale with the opener, "startling testimony to the existence of a frightening world of the spectral and supernatural." I rather like the notion of a haunted bookshelf, since I'd like to haunt a bookshelf! I don't know if any of these stories are necessarily based on anything, although Dartmoor had mysterious beasts in it as recently as a few years ago. Actually, the mundane explanation for that one is still kind of fun.

In "Home is Where the Grave Is!" a young boy raised next to a graveyard grows up with ghosts as good, friendly neighbors. But that doesn't save him from getting drafted for Vietnam...you can pretty much guess how he's going to come home. (Story by Carl Wessler, pencils by John Calnan, inks by Tex Blaisdell.) "The Trapped Phantom" features E.R. Cruz art, as a bandit murders a fisherman, but worries about his vengeful ghost. Which is trapped near where it passed, so should be easily avoidable...unless there's a flood or something.

Finally, in "The Most Fearful Villain of the Supernatural" an Irish writer visiting "Rumania" is shocked to find a deserted castle, with a body in an open coffin with a stake in its heart! Which he removes, reviving the vampire: not doing that seems like it would be common sense, but it wasn't yet, since the writer, Bram Stoker, hadn't written Dracula yet! Did Stoker have a chance encounter with the supernatural, that led to one of the most famous books of all time? That's a premise that's probably been used elsewhere, but also probably given more than six pages. (Written by George Kashdan, art by Lee Elias.)