House of Mystery #240

Inside a glass greenhouse, a terrified man is pinned helplessly in a chair by a monstrous, skeletal creature with a wild burst of yellow petals where its head should be — a chilling botanical horror straight off Joe Orlando's cover for this 1976 DC anthology. The tagline "Death in the Garden of Evil!" sets the tone perfectly, while the banner teases the tantalizing question: "Who — or What — Was the Murderer?" Cary Bates scripts the interior tale with art by Rubeny, making this a fine example of the eerie storytelling that made House of Mystery such a compelling read in the mid-seventies.