House of Mystery, #186

Published: May-June 1970

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House of Mystery #186

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Issue Contents:
Nightmare (1)
1 page horror-suspense
Credits
The Secret of the Egyptian Cat
Story 1 10 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

To the House of Mystery comes Konassos, a sorcerer, with his white cat. Cain one night sees the cat transform into a woman who tells her tale. Isha, Egyptian priestess of the temple of Nu-Ta the Cat-God, is captured and held captive by Konassos. The sorcerer to better control her transforms the priestess into a white cat. Trapped in her feline form, Ra-Na a male cat escorts her but is then poisoned by the sorcerer. She plots her revenge and one day concocts a magical spell that transforms her back into a woman and Konassos into a mouse which she then introduces to Ra-Na's friends.

Characters
  • Cain (story host)
  • Isha (priestess)
  • Konassos (sorcerer)
  • Ra-Na (cat)
Credits
Room 13

Featuring Page 13

Story 2 1 page horror-suspense
Story Notes

Joe Orlando script credit from House of Mystery: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) #1.

Story 3 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Includes letters from David Blehar, Joseph Carroll, Ilona Johnson, Russell Taylor, and Jerry Wilson.

Story 4 2 pages humor
Nightmare
Story 5 12 pages horror-suspense
Storyline

A lonely little girl, Judy, seeks a friend and finds it in Pan, an animated statue. They play together in a fantasy world, but meantime in the real world she is struck by a fever and a doctor tries to cure her. As she improves, her father convinces her that Pan is just a statue. The statue, with a girl who's now grown up, sheds a tear.

Characters
  • Cain (story host)
  • Judy
  • Judy's father
  • Miss Winter (governess)
  • Pan (statue brought to life)
Story Notes

Uncredited Cain head on the top of page one. Judy was modeled after Neal Adams' daughter Kris Adams. (Note corrected by Zeea (Adams) Moss via the GCD Errors list.) Kanigher script per bio info from Robin Snyder's History of the Comics #v4#7 (July 1993). Previous indexer credited Jack Oleck, who is credited as authoring this story in the reprint in Welcome Back to the House of Mystery (DC, 1998 series) #1.

Story 6 1 page humor