House of Mystery #252

In "The Devil Strikes at My Old Kentucky Home!" from House of Mystery #252, the eerie House of Mystery becomes the unlikely target for a real estate developer's amusement park and a film crew's shoot—only to be repelled by the unsettling presence of Cain and his peculiar neighbors. The story unfolds with a creeping dread as the house’s strange residents turn the tide against outsiders, leaving no room for comfort in their haunted domain.

In "Markham's Masterpiece," Stanley Markham's greed leads him to steal the sculptures of an elderly artist, passing them off as his own genius. When he murders her to keep his deception safe, her ghost returns—silent, relentless, and bound by a promise to make him pay.

In the isolated aftermath of a mountain plane crash, Dolph Culhane faces a desperate survival choice—eating the race horse he’d just purchased, only to discover too late that the animal was diseased. As rescue comes, he begins to feel the first unsettling signs of illness, leaving him haunted by the cost of his last meal.