House of Mystery Vol 1 257

"'Twas the Night before Christmas...": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

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• Cain
• Abel

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Synopsis for "The Ebony God"

An explorer attempts to steal a statue which African natives claim has brought peace to the land, but fails when the statue transports itself back to where he got it from.

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• Cain (Host)

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Synopsis for "A Gift From Satan"

A man sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for a room full of gold coins "exactly like the one he holds", unaware that the Devil has tricked him with a counterfeit coin.

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• Cain (Host)

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Synopsis for "To Catch A God!"

A professor leads two explorers to an island where he hopes to find a creature upon which the story of Eros is based, but once the three locate an oversized egg, one of the explorers murders the professor in order to sell the egg. Unfortunately for the pair, the egg turns out not to be that of a flying man, but an angry maternal Harpy.

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• Cain (Host)

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• Harpy

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Synopsis for "Mirror Madness"

A plastic surgeon ends up making a man have the appearance of a frog and steals away his wife. The two leave the man for dead in an alley but he lives and ends up joining a carnival freak show. The surgeon and the woman visit the carnival and the frog man vows revenge. The fortune teller gives him a magic stone and he follows the surgeon and his lover into the hall of mirrors where the stone's magic gives their real faces the distorted images reflected in the mirrors.

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• Cain (Host)

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Synopsis for "Haunts Upon A Time"

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Synopsis for "Father to the Beast!"

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Notes

• "'Twas the Night before Christmas..." is a framing story that wraps around the other stories in the issue

See Also

• Cover gallery for the House of Mystery series

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