Women In White: Ghosts and Gothic

[Rex fury]

After looking over the comic covers Hep posted on the Neil Adams thread I got to thinking about cool covers depicting the "Woman in White" motif in comics and magazines. Some of my favorites are Eerie 25, Creepy 23 (Dark Horse), and a host of Haunted Love, Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, and other DC mystery comics. Anybody have any favorites that come to mind? If memory serves me, aren't some of the best ghost stories about this too? Resurrection Mary is one of my favorites and I think her ghost is always in white, correct?
While I'm at it, anybody have a sense  of where or why this type of gothic look got started?
Just whistling past the graveyard here....
RF

[Hepcat]

Some of my favorites are Eerie 25, Creepy 23 (Dark Horse), and a host of Haunted Love, Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion, and other DC mystery comics.

Here's a scan of my Eerie 25 cover by Jim Steranko:



And a scan of my favourite The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love cover by Neal Adams:



And a favourite still of mine from Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave movie with Veronica Carlson as the woman in white:

[Hepcat]

Here's another one I really like by Neal Adams:



And this Skywald magazine cover ripping off a still from Hammer's 1967 release The Mummy's Shroud:

[skully]

That last picture from Psycho #8 cover art has the woman being menaced from the Hammer flick "The Mummy's shroud".

[Mike Scott]

That last picture from Psycho #8 cover art has the woman being menaced from the Hammer flick "The Mummy's shroud".

That's what it says right above the picture. 

[skully]

Hi Mike, you're right, didn't see that!

[Hepcat]

That particular still from The Mummy's Shroud was used for the DVD cover: