Where do your thoughts come from? You believe they originate in your own brain... and not in the twisted mind of someone else? Think about it! Perhaps some supernatural force is being directed at you now...for good...or for evil! Creating thoughts, like misshapen things crawling out of the limbo of eternity. Perhaps akin to those waves of mental horror created in the mind of one man--a man so consumed with hate that his unsuspecting victims lost all rational control and become the frenzied pawns of...the Creator of Evil! 
- — Cain
House of Mystery #208 is an issue of the series House of Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 1972.
Synopsis for "The Creator of Evil!"
A prisoner develops powers of mental domination within his cell which he uses to strike back at the judge and jury which sentenced him.
Appearing in "The Creator of Evil!"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Phil Butler (Single appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. Butler, Phil's father (Single appearance)
- Professor Phi (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Boris Illytch (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Fred Wheatly (Single appearance; dies)
- Mrs. Wheatly (Single appearance; dies)
- Officer Marty (Single appearance)
- Officer Nolan (Single appearance)
- Leonard Martin (Single appearance)
- Robert Albertson (Single appearance; dies)
- John Curry (Single appearance; dies)
- Doris Edmond (Single appearance)
Locations:
- An undisclosed city
- Daily Press newspaper office
- State Prison
- Professor Phi's residence
Synopsis for "The Day the Clock Stopped"
Lightning strikes the town clock, and the mortician finds himself unneeded and out of work as no one is dying, even those who are terminally ill or have obviously fatal accidents. Even when the mortician attempts to directly murder people, they won't die. After seeing the man attempting to repair the town clock fall from it and live, the mortician climbs the town clock and challenges the repairman to surrender his corpse. The mortician falls from the town clock, and it begins to toll once again just before he hits the pavement.
Appearing in "The Day the Clock Stopped"
Narrator:
- Cain (Host)
Featured Characters:
- Adam Sneal (Single appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- Robert (Single appearance)
- Mr. Kinderger (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Murphy (Single appearance)
- Nurse Carol (Single appearance)
- Lennie (Single appearance)
- Nick Roma (Single appearance)
- Mrs. Wilson (Single appearance)
Locations:
- An undisclosed town
- A clocktower
Notes
- The cover was repurposed for DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #6.
- This issue is reprinted in Showcase Presents: The House of Mystery Vol. 2.
- Sergio Aragonés did both gag features for this issue, "Cain's Gargoyles" and "Cain's Game Room".
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