There is a house in Louisville...
...they call the House of Mystery. Inhabited at various times by denizens of DC's Supernatural line, this book has had everything under its brand. This article (unlike others I have written to this point), will only deal with the Pre-Crisis title that lasted 321 issues. Below, is a picture of Issue #1 (Dec-Jan 1951/52), featuring the story "Wanda is a Werewolf." House of Mystery started as DC's entry into the horror genre as the people who ran it discovered that super-hero comics were on the wane and that horror comics were all vogue, mostly due to EC Comics line. There were several stories per issue (written by various luminaries such as Jack Schiff, and drawn by artists such as Win Mortimer and my personal favourite, Curt Swan). Some of the stories were based on legends from the real world, while others were the providence of the writers themselves. The book began on a bi-monthly schedule, similar to other books of the genre. Some of the interesting stories of...