This issue omits the normal framing sequence and instead uses Sergio Aragones to flank the stories, beginning with a "Welcome to the House of Mystery" splash featuring Cain.
Our first story is "Fright" by Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth. 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.
The buffer between stories is provided by "Room 13" and a "Cain's Gargoyles" by Sergio Aragones. Wedged in between them is a "Cain's Game Room" by John Albano.
We end with "A Witch Must Die!" by Jack Miller, Ric Estrada, and Frank Giacoia. Salem residents accuse a man's wife of being a witch and he saves her from being hanged, by using his horse to pull the bars from her cell window. The man, his wife, and little girl ride deep into the forest to build a new home but encounter an Indian medicine man who demands that they leave. When the husband refuses the Indian directs a large tree to fall toward them. The woman redirects the tree's fall and the husband realizes that his wife actually is a witch. The entire issue was reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1 TPB (2006).
Edited by Joe Orlando.
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