Haunted Love was a horror

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-romance

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 anthology

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 comic book

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 series published by Charlton Comics

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 from 1973 - 1975. It was part of the Gothic Romance comic book mini-trend of the era, which included the short-lived DC Comics

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 series The Dark Mansion Of Forbidden Love and The Sinister House of Secret Love, and Atlas/Seaboard Comics

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' one-shot magazine Gothic Romances. (Haunted Love was also part of Charlton's wave of early 1970s horror-themed titles, including Ghostly Haunts

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, Haunted

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, Midnight Tales

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, and Scary Tales

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.)

Edited by George Wildman

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, contributors to Haunted Love included writers Joe Gill

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, Nick Cuti

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, and Pete Morisi

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; and artists Charles Nicholas, Joe Staton

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, Steve Ditko

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, Sanho Kim

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, Enrique Nieto, Pat Boyette

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, and Vince Alascia

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. Tom Sutton

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 contributed many of the covers.

The Charlton imprint Modern Comics

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published one issue of Haunted Love reprints in 1978.