We begin with "Voodoo Vengeance" by Alan Riefe and Tony DeZuniga. A white plantation owner gets into a voodoo duel with his laborers. He comes up with a plan to fake his death and tell them his spirit will torment them forever, but after he is put inside the mausoleum, one of the laborers rolls a stone down an incline so that it blocks the mausoleum wall and entombs the white man.
Next is "Dark Night, Dark Dreams" by Gerry Conway and Bill Draut. A landlord doesn't want to sublet a room so when a woman shows up on his doorstep he assumes that she is the woman that he wasn't expecting for another week. A police report comes over the radio that a number of dangerous lunatics have escaped from a nearby asylum and he takes the opportunity to use light and sound effects as well as a dropped knife to scare her into a faint.
He laughs to himself that when she comes to she won't want anything to do with the place. He turns on the radio once more and the police are warning that only one lunatic still remains at large but she is the most dangerous of all and warn those who come into contact with her not to provoke her. The description they give reminds the man of the girl he met on the doorstep, and he is unaware that she has picked up the knife and is advancing upon him from behind.
Following that is a "Cain's Game Room" by Sergio Aragones and a one-page gag, "The Hero" by Lore Shoberg. The entire issue was reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery #1 (2006) and House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus #1 (2019).
Edited by Joe Orlando.
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