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CATALOG RECORD

House of Mystery #212

DC · Series began 1951 · March 1973

Dates

Cover date
March 1973
On sale
January 23, 1973
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Michael Wm. Kaluta, John Calnan, Nick Cardy, Alex Niño, Ruben Yandocinks: Michael Wm. Kaluta, Murphy Anderson, Nick Cardy, Alex Niño, Ruben Yandocletters: John Costanzascript: Maxene Fabe, Michael Fleisher, Jack Oleck

Stories

  • Ever After · 8 pages

    Warren thinks he'll easily get control of his girlfriend's inheritance once her father dies, but the tables are turned when he learns that she is a vampire.

  • Oh, Mom! Oh, Dad! You've Sent Me Away to Summer Camp... and I'm So Sad! · 8 pages

    Little wheelchair-bound Richard is left by his parents at a strange summer camp. After one of the kids apparently drowns in a lake, the others begin murdering, one by one, the counselors, thinking they are aliens out to conquer the earth. Richard then tells this to the head counselor, but the other kids find out and want to kill him. As Richard flees he finds out that the counselors really were aliens, who then escape into outer space carrying away the entire camp to an unknown faraway destination.

  • Halfway to Hell · 6 pages

    A criminal is shot by the police and awakens on a train full of dead people. Knowing that the final destination of the train must be hell, he demands to return to Earth, which he does, only to find that he is completely and permanently paralyzed.

Reprinted in

Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (2006), Weird Mystery Tales (1972), Terror Tales Album (1977), Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (1998)

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