House of Mystery #241 is an issue of the series House of Mystery (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1976.
Synopsis for "Paid in Full"
A hood on the run from the law encounters a witch that takes him in and nurses him back to health. The hood notices that the witch has special powers that allow her to transform certain things. He threatens the witch to transform newspaper scraps into money which she readily does but he then insists that the witch give him a new body so that he can spend his money without worry of being arrested. The witch provides the hood with a potion to transform him but the hood kills the witch to keep her from talking. He drinks the potion and finds that it has shrunken him down to the size of a mouse. He is then attacked by the witches black cat, Lucifer and meets his end.
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Synopsis for "Death Pulls The Strings"
A puppeteer named Bruno amazes crowds with his amazing skills. No one suspects that the puppets are actually midgets who were put out of work when their circus burned down. Brunos puppet act becomes a huge success but the spotlight goes to his head and he becomes obsessed with control. He becomes abusive and the midgets begin to consider quitting the act and striking out on their own. They inform Bruno of their intentions to leave but Bruno becomes enraged and murders the midgets with a sledgehammer. He screams at the sky that he is the master and creator. At that moment, the hand of god comes down from the sky and strikes Bruno dead with a bolt of electricity showing him that there is a greater power.
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