House of Mystery (1951-)
English
27 pages
Issue 1
House of Mystery (1951-) #174
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"THE WONDROUS WITCH'S CAULDRON!" A witch's cauldron that brings its owner fame, fortune and long life passes from owner to owner.
26 pages
Issue 2
House of Mystery (1951-) #175
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"THE GIFT OF DOOM!" Roger Steele is given a diamond by an unnamed man and told it has a curse that may doom him. He is unable to throw it away without it returning, but it is finally stolen, and the thief is killed by it.
24 pages
Issue 3
House of Mystery (1951-) #176
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"THE HOUSE OF NO RETURN!" A scientist, David Long, creates a chemical in an attempt to grow trees and plants that produce unlimited fruit, in order to combat world hunger.
26 pages
Issue 4
House of Mystery (1951-) #177
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"THE SON OF THE MONTROSS MONSTER." The grandson of the creator of the Montross Monster creates another monster so that they will destroy each other and restore the family name.
26 pages
Issue 5
House of Mystery (1951-) #178
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"THE GAME." Young Jamie Markus takes refuge from a storm in an old, deserted house and spends the night playing a game with a strange being who has his face.
25 pages
Issue 6
House of Mystery (1951-) #179
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"SOUR NOTE." A man wonders about the history of the estate he occupies, and a ghost appears to reveal that he 'murdered' himself (and assumed a new identity) in order to avoid reprisal for claim jumping.
27 pages
Issue 7
House of Mystery (1951-) #180
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"COMES A WARRIOR!" A warrior seeks a quest to immortalize him and believes he has found it in a dragon that is said to be menacing a village. He succeeds in slaying the dragon, but the animating spirit of the dragon reveals to him that it was the guardian of a demon temple preventing foul demons from escaping. And now, because of the warrior's actions, they are free.
25 pages
Issue 8
House of Mystery (1951-) #181
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"SIR GREELEY'S REVENGE!" A rich man wills half his fortune to an orphan if he can play the piano well at a concert, so the man's relatives try to damage the boy's hands. The rich man's ghost becomes enraged at their behavior and drowns them in a mound of gold coins.
25 pages
Issue 9
House of Mystery (1951-) #182
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A man buys a mirror that acts as a doorway to hell. He passes through, and Satan tells him that he has claimed the man's soul. The man fights past evil imps to escape back out through the mirror, and he smashes it to bits. Unknown to him, his daughter had wandered into it while he was making his escape.
27 pages
Issue 10
House of Mystery (1951-) #183
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Two ghosts don't know that they are dead, and they perceive the two living people in their house to be ghosts until the living man says to his wife that the previous owners died from a gas leak, at which point the ghosts realize that they are dead.
26 pages
Issue 11
House of Mystery (1951-) #184
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A philosophy professor lives to regret abandoning his job so that he can make an expedition to Egypt and locate a treasure that turns out to be the cursed 30 silver coins of Judas.
26 pages
Issue 12
House of Mystery (1951-) #185
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A skydiver lands at the House of Mystery, but Cain learns that the unexpected guest is already dead.
26 pages
Issue 13
House of Mystery (1951-) #186
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To the House of Mystery comes Konassos, a sorcerer, with his white cat.
26 pages
Issue 14
House of Mystery (1951-) #187
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A witch links the fates of a red vixen and a hunter's wife so that when he finally catches and kills the fox, his wife dies as well.
25 pages
Issue 15
House of Mystery (1951-) #188
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The Mayans vanished because one of their number fell in love with a girl from a neighboring tribe who was taken by the priests to be sacrificed. In his rage he cursed his home city to a vanishing doom.
27 pages
Issue 16
House of Mystery (1951-) #189
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A cat watches a man drown in a quicksand bog after he pushes his wealthy uncle off a seaside cliff in order to inherit his estate.
25 pages
Issue 17
House of Mystery (1951-) #190
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A man who wants to join a dueling fraternity accepts their challenge to spend the night in a haunted house, but loses his mind when they reveal to him that he spent the night in the wrong house and all the supernatural experiences that he had were not tricks but real.
22 pages
Issue 18
House of Mystery (1951-) #191
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A puppeteer is evicted from his house and dies without knowing that the children he entertained have not forgotten him. His puppets come to life to exact revenge on the heartless man who stole their master's home.
23 pages
Issue 19
House of Mystery (1951-) #192
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A doctor becomes jealous of the gardener, so he murders him with an ax. When his wife proclaims innocence, he repents and makes the body the recipient of the first plastic artificial brain. He goes to sleep after the surgery only to wake upon the operating table. It turns out the new brain has made the dim-witted gardener into a completely new person with ambitions of conquest. He replaces the wife's brain and plans to do so with the doctor as well in order to begin building a new army of perfect thinkers.
23 pages
Issue 20
House of Mystery (1951-) #193
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A white plantation owner gets into a voodoo duel with his laborers.
39 pages
Issue 21
House of Mystery (1951-) #194
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A man uses magic spells to make him appear dead in his cell after he murders his wife and is scheduled to hang.
39 pages
Issue 22
House of Mystery (1951-) #195
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Adam Leach kills his wife and hides her body in a wall, but a giant vampire bat begins to torment him.
39 pages
Issue 23
House of Mystery (1951-) #196
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During World War II, two orphans are chased through bomb-ravaged London by Satan worshipers.
39 pages
Issue 24
House of Mystery (1951-) #197
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After a mutiny, three men are picked up by the Flying Dutchman. When Drew Wilson sees a strange man at his uncle's funeral, and again at the death of a boxer, he realizes that Death itself has been stalking him.
39 pages
Issue 25
House of Mystery (1951-) #198
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A master artist gives his soul to Satan for the ability to be twins, one who can paint and one who can party. When a Martian child crash-lands on his remote island, Fred Marshall is taught a lesson in turning his back on humanity.
39 pages
Issue 26
House of Mystery (1951-) #199
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Dr. Wallace B. Peterson wants the fame of the discovery of a lost civilization in Antarctica for himself, so he kills his colleague Professor Strauss. On the exploratory mission he is then captured and held prisoner by that lost race of monstrous men who want to know everything about the outside world.
39 pages
Issue 27
House of Mystery (1951-) #200
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John is impatient with his sister's love of animals, and accidentally kills her when she tries to protect her dog from his anger. John is then attacked and killed by other animals that his sister had befriended around the farm.
39 pages
Issue 28
House of Mystery (1951-) #201
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George Ringler is on death row for a murder he didn't commit. Caspar Creed uses his fortune to find a magical artifact to give him back his youth.
39 pages
Issue 29
House of Mystery (1951-) #202
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When her husband dies, a woman makes a pact with the devil to place his mind inside their newborn son.
38 pages
Issue 30
House of Mystery (1951-) #203
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Mark Dawson has been killing all the eagles on his ranch, even after the Indian Bear Claw warned him that they would get their revenge. Emile Marlez finds the Midas Potion that causes him to turn everything he touches for one week into gold.
25 pages
Issue 31
House of Mystery (1951-) #204
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When Fred and Mary are stranded in a swamp, they find a house that Mary had nightmares about the night before.
25 pages
Issue 32
House of Mystery (1951-) #205
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Two trappers in a swamp find the treasure the ghostly Coffin Creature has been searching for.
25 pages
Issue 33
House of Mystery (1951-) #206
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Dana holds a fake séance to try to convince his rich aunt to commit suicide. Lester's stepmom locks him in a closet when his father is away, but his stuffed lion gets revenge for Lester.
25 pages
Issue 34
House of Mystery (1951-) #207
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Bennett wants his wife dead but fears that her Hindu servant is prolonging her life.
24 pages
Issue 35
House of Mystery (1951-) #208
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Boris Illytch, locked away in prison, uses his telepathic powers to get revenge on the judge and jury that convicted him.
24 pages
Issue 36
House of Mystery (1951-) #209
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Mr. Lawson will not let his daughter marry John because he is poor, so John becomes a grave robber to earn enough money for the marriage.
24 pages
Issue 37
House of Mystery (1951-) #210
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Frank Alban is the best exterminator in the world, until he meets Mrs. Latrodectus.
24 pages
Issue 38
House of Mystery (1951-) #211
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The peasants ask Dravos to kill the werewolf that is terrorizing their valley; little do they know that they are exchanging a werewolf for something more sinister.
26 pages
Issue 40
House of Mystery (1951-) #291
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"NIGHT OF THE LIVING UNDEAD!" Andrew Bennett deals with a drug-dealing vampire named Emil Veldt while tracking the Cult of the Blood Red Moon! Plus, "A CARDBOARD HERO" and "THE SEAS RUN RED!"
26 pages
Issue 41
House of Mystery (1951-) #292
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"AND SPOIL THE CHILD!" A general takes into custody a mutant child with the power to destroy things with his mind when he goes into fits of rage! Plus, "THE WENDIGO" and "HAIR APPARENT"
26 pages
Issue 42
House of Mystery (1951-) #293
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"HENSON'S POOCH." A man is murdered by his son for his money, but now his ghost has returned for revenge! Plus, "THE SENIOR SIN!" and "THE BURNING!"
26 pages
Issue 43
House of Mystery (1951-) #294
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"THE DARKNESS!" A wealthy man is terrified of the dark ever since, as a child in Haiti, he stole a voodoo charm that calls forth a monster when the lights are out! Plus, "OLD HAUNTS" and "CONGRATULATIONS, MR. BATES – IT'S A WARLOCK!"
26 pages
Issue 44
House of Mystery (1951-) #295
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"MOTHER LOVE/MOTHER HATE!" Dmitri Mishkin recounts the night he found out his mother was Mary, Queen of Blood! Plus, "RED OR BLUE?" and "A LOUSE IS NOT A HOME."
26 pages
Issue 45
House of Mystery (1951-) #296
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"NIGHT WOMEN." A doctor follows a bag lady she had treated into the subway system, only to discover that the city's bag ladies are witches! Plus, "KILLED IN THE RATINGS" and "WORK FOR DYING!"
27 pages
Issue 46
House of Mystery (1951-) #297
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"ZEN FLESH! ZEN BONES!" Andrew Bennett's investigation of properties associated with the Blood Red Moon takes him to California, where he meets a young vampire named Billy Kessler who is able to resist his blood urges! Plus, "BEAT THE DEVIL" and "THE IDOL OF MILLIONS!"
28 pages
Issue 47
House of Mystery (1951-) #298
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"STALKER ON A STARLESS NIGHT!" A man from Earth visits a primitive world where the people there mistake his spacesuit for a demon! Plus, "EVEN DEAD MEN SING THE BLUES" and "ALL THE CREATURE COMFORTS!"
28 pages
Issue 48
House of Mystery (1951-) #299
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"THE SUN ALSO BURNS." Andrew Bennett, Deborah Dancer and Dmitri Mishkin are attacked by human agents of the Blood Red Moon during broad daylight! Plus, "THINK LIKE A TIGER" and "A DAY WITHOUT SUNSHINE."
28 pages
Issue 49
House of Mystery (1951-) #300
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"DYING BY DEGREES!" A 46-year-old man responds to a newspaper ad that he feels will allow him to stop being a nobody by murdering aspects of himself, like fear and humility, that he feels are holding him back from achieving something in life. Plus, "HELPING HAND!" and "PAPER GIRL!"
28 pages
Issue 50
House of Mystery (1951-) #301
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"VIRGINIA." The local sheriff pulls a lovely woman from the waves with 400-year-old clothes and speech patterns, whom the media claim is somehow a survivor from the lost colony of Roanoke! Plus, "THE CHOICE" and "PIPELINE TO HELL!"
28 pages
Issue 51
House of Mystery (1951-) #302
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"BLOOD TIES!" Having faked his own death, Andrew Bennett wanders the roads of Kansas, feeding on farm animals. He begins to realize that he's losing his taste for animals and will soon require human blood! Plus, "HOUSE ODDS" and "D-DAY FOR EARTH!"
26 pages
Issue 52
House of Mystery (1951-) #303
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"CARNIVAL OF SOULS!" Andrew Bennett sees the traveling circus he visited with June Kitner again, and realizes that it is a front for the Blood Red Moon! Plus, "HELLRIDE" and "BUGGED!"
26 pages
Issue 53
House of Mystery (1951-) #304
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"THE NIGHT HAS EYES." Mary, Queen of Blood puts a stake into Andrew Bennett's heart and immobilizes him. She decides to give him an ironic burial and has her goons put him inside a coffin in the carnival's funhouse. Plus, "PROOF FROM BEYOND!" and "AS I GROW PALE AND THIN."
