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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: DC
Title: House of Mystery
Page Count: 44
Genre: Crime, Detective-mystery, Horror-suspense, Non-fiction
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: June 1952
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Country: United States
John Howell randomly kills three people to cover up the murder of his business partner. He pretended to dream about the deaths first. Police stages more accidents to drive Howell over the edge and make him confess.; 13 men and women form a club to debunk superstition, but one by one they meet violent deaths. They don’t die, however, because they challenge fate, but because they touched a poisoned gavel to smash a mirror with.; Mobster Jim Keene is blinded, but kills his neighbor Bob who promised him an eye transplant. Police can’t prove anything because Keene makes it look like an accident. Bob’s right eye, however, was “hexed” and Keene (now living with it) can kill a person if he stares at him in anger. When Keene kill-stares his girl friend Nancy, he is overwhelmed with grief and confesses to the murder of Bob. The police inform him that the eye-hex has been an elaborate “hoax” to drive him mad! Keene killed no one, but fell for the performances of G-Men.; Dennis and David Stanton are twins and are able to share their feelings. They embark on a life of crime using their exact likeness to be one another's alibi. In the end both get shot dead at the exact same moment although they are hundreds of miles apart.; Legend of a Roman soldier haunting a hill in England.; Man killed in a duel appears as ghost to his bride once more.; Account of strange happening during the Civil War.