House of Mystery #192 is an issue of the series House of Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1971.
Synopsis for "The Gardener of Eden!"
A doctor becomes jealous of the gardener, so he murders him with an axe. When his wife proclaims innocence, he repents and makes the body the recipient of the first plastic artificial brain. He goes to sleep after the surgery only to wake up on the operating table. It turns out the new brain has made the dim-witted gardener into a completely new person with ambitions of conquest. He replaces the wife's brain and plans to do so with the doctor as well in order to begin building a new army of perfect thinkers.
Appearing in "The Gardener of Eden!"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Adam Eden (Single appearance)
- Eve Eden (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Boris (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Doctor Eden's new home
Synopsis for "Image of Darkness"
A deformed man finds a mirror which transforms him into someone handsome and places him in another world, but at midnight he reverts to his ugly self. He meets a girl, and they fall in love but she thinks he is standing her up for another woman after midnight and she breaks the mirror in a rage. He tells her the truth, and when midnight tolls, he becomes ugly once more and is pulled back through the broken mirror to the world he came from. The woman pleads with him not to go because she doesn't care what he looks like. He was beautiful on the inside.
Appearing in "Image of Darkness"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Andrew Foster (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Susan (Single appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Magic mirror (Destroyed)
Synopsis for "Nobody Loves A Lizard!"
Appearing in "Nobody Loves A Lizard!"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Bobby (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- A talking lizard (Single appearance)
- Mrs. Green (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Miss Evans (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Orphanage director (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
Locations:
- An Orphanage
Notes
- Mary Skrenes is credited in this issue as "Virgil North".
- This issue is reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 1.
- The humor strips in "Cain's Game Room" were drawn by Lore Shoberg.
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