Issue Details

Issue	#196
Published	November 1971
Frequency	monthly
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Joe Orlando; Mark Hanerfeld (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "A Girl and Her Dog"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Tony deZuniga
Inks	Tony deZuniga
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

9 page story "A Girl and Her Dog"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Gerry Conway
Pencils	Gray Morrow
Inks	Gray Morrow
Reprinted	in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #24 (August 1982); in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Game Room cartoon

Synopsis	3 gag cartoons
Genre	humor
Pencils	Sergio Aragones
Inks	Sergio Aragones
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

7 page story "The Alien Within Me"

Genre	horror
Pencils	Alex Toth
Inks	Alex Toth
Reprinted	from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #60 (October 1961)

2 page story "Child of the Dead"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Wayne Howard
Inks	Wayne Howard
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

1 page Cain's Room 13 cartoon

Synopsis	3 gag cartoons
Genre	humor
Pencils	Lore Shoberg
Inks	Lore Shoberg
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

6 page story "Dark Journey"

Genre	occult
Pencils	Nick Cardy
Inks	Nick Cardy
Reprinted	from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #72 (March 1958)

1 page Cain's Mail Room letters page

Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters submitted by Kerry M. Kirspel; Randy Moore; Bruce Lohr; Cathy Post

1 page A Witch's Garden of Curses filler "My Heart Becomes So Icy Cold "

Script	Len Wein
Pencils	Joe Orlando ?
Inks	Joe Orlando ?
Notes	"homage" to William Wordsworth's poem "My Heart Leaps Up" (1802)
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]

10 page story "The Little People"

Characters	Cain (host)
Genre	horror
Script	Jack Oleck
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Frank Giacoia
Notes	Jack Oleck is identified as the writer in the letters page of House of Mystery #200.
Reprinted	in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery (DC, 2006 series) #2 [black and white]