| Issue | #1 |
| Published | July 1998 |
| Cover Price | 5.95 USD; 8.50 CAD |
| Pages | 100 |
| Editing | Joe Orlando (original editor); Alisa Kwitney (reprint and new material editor) |
| Notes | Alisa Kwitney selected the stories reprinted herein. Sale date: May 1998. |
| Characters | Abel; Cain; Gregory (gargoyle) |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson |
| Colors | Bernie Wrightson? |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Alisa Kwitney selected the stories reprinted herein. Sale date: May 1998. |
| Characters | Cain; Gregory (gargoyle) |
| Synopsis | Cain welcomes kids to his aviary and speaks of his poacher problem. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson (signed) |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson (signed) |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Signature dated 1972. |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #? [circa 1972] |
| Characters | Abel; Cain; Gregory (gargoyle); the Phantom Stranger |
| Synopsis | Cain reminisces and presents to us these tales from the past. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Neil Gaiman |
| Pencils | Sergio Aragones |
| Inks | Sergio Aragones |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Notes | Framing sequence (5 pages here and 2 at the end). |
| Characters | Abel; Cain |
| Synopsis | Cain lists the credits in this issue's stories, while Abel is held prisoner in a giant water cooler. |
| Genre | horror |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] (signed) |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] (signed) |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Notes | Continued from the first five pages of the previous framing sequence and continued in the last two pages of the same framing sequence. Old pinup with new text. Wrightson's signature is actually spelled backwards and reads INREB NOSTHGIRW. |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #? [art only] |
| Characters | Abel; Cain (story host); Hormsley (servant); Vernon Glute |
| Synopsis | Vernon Glute, a rich obese man, eats only the best of foods and consumes enormous quantities of fresh frog legs. One day he and his servant face the wrath of an army of legless frogs. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Steve Skeates |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from Plop! (DC, 1973 series) #1 (September-October 1973) |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Gregory (gargoyle); Dr. Wallace B. Peterson (scientist); Professor Strauss (scientist) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Wallace B. Peterson wants the fame of the discovery of a lost civilization in Antarctica for himself and so kills his colleague Professor Strauss. On the exploratory mission he is then captured and kept prisoner by that lost race of monstrous men who want to know everything about the outside world. A long time later he manages to escape but returning to civilization he doesn't feel well and goes to relax at the House of Mystery. There he finally melts to water having physically become like one of those lost men. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Sergio Aragones |
| Pencils | Wally Wood |
| Inks | Wally Wood |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #199 (February 1972) |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Judy; Judy's father; Miss Winter (governess); Pan (statue brought to life) |
| Synopsis | 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. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Jack Oleck |
| Pencils | ? (pg 1: Cain head); Neal Adams |
| Inks | ? (pg 1: Cain head); Dick Giordano |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Notes | Uncredited Cain head on the top of page one. Judy was modelled after Neal Adams' daughter Zeea Adams. |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #186 (May-June 1970) |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Isha (priestess); Konassos (sorcerer); Ra-Na (cat) |
| Synopsis | 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. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Robert Kanigher |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #186 (May-June 1970) |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Judy (girl); Neal (Peggy's brother); old hag; Peggy (girl); Tippy (Peggy's dog) |
| Synopsis | Two girls, Judy and Peggy, in search of Peggy's lost brother Neal, enter an old house where lives an old hag who warns them to leave for their own good. They don't and find out that the evil house drains the life from those in it by leeching on their fear of death, condemning them to an endless eternity. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Gerry Conway [as Gerard Conway] |
| Pencils | Bill Draut |
| Inks | Bill Draut |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from House of Secrets (DC, 1969 series) #83 (December 1969-January 1970) |
| Characters | Cain |
| Synopsis | Cain explains to us some "true things" about the House of Mystery comic. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Neil Gaiman |
| Pencils | Sergio Aragones |
| Inks | Sergio Aragones |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Gary Winters (boy who can become a monster); Gary Winters (Gary's father); Kathy Winters (Gary's sister); Mildred Winters (Gary's mother) |
| Synopsis | A boy who has magical powers, repeatedly transforms himself in public into a gruesome monster, terrifying everyone. His family decides first to cure him and then to have him lobotomized. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Joe Orlando (plot); John Albano (script) |
| Pencils | Jim Aparo |
| Inks | Jim Aparo |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Jim Aparo |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #201 (April 1972) |
| Characters | Adam Strat; Cain (story host); Meg Cooper (witch) |
| Synopsis | A man, without any memories, is apparently saved from death by Meg Cooper, an ugly witch. After having Meg make him a lot of gold he betrays her to the local village. She is tried and burned alive and Adam reverts to the straw man he was. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Jack Oleck |
| Pencils | Mike Sekowsky |
| Inks | Tom Palmer |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #206 (September 1972). |
| Characters | Abel; Carmine Infantino; Gil Kane; Joe Orlando |
| Synopsis | Comic book artist Gil Kane feels wasted in the comic books he's drawing and tries to gain some privacy by going to the House of Mystery where he plans to write his own stories. There, however, his editor Joe Orlando scolds him until Gil Kane finally kills him. The editor and writer however exact their vengeance by drawing Gil Kane into his own artwork which is then framed by Abel on the walls of the House of Mystery. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Mike Friedrich |
| Pencils | Gil Kane |
| Inks | Wally Wood |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Notes | The word "Cain!" appears in the story title, but is crossed out and replaced with "Kane". |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #180 (May-June 1969) |
| Synopsis | A guide to the rooms inside the House of Mystery. |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Neil Gaiman |
| Pencils | Sergio Aragones |
| Inks | Sergio Aragones |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Characters | camp kids [Richard ("Richie", boy in wheelchair); Timmy; Tony; and others]; counselor Bill; counselor Dave; counselor Larry; head counselor Ressler |
| Synopsis | Little wheelchair-bound Richard is left by his parents at a strange summer camp. After one of the kids apparently drowns in a lake, the others begin murdering, one by one, the counselors, thinking they are aliens out to conquer the earth. Richard then tells this to the head counselor, but the other kids find out and want to kill him. As Richard flees he finds out that the counselors really were aliens, who then escape into outer space carrying away the entire camp to an unknown faraway destination. |
| Genre | horror |
| Script | Michael Fleisher; Maxene Fabe |
| Pencils | Alex Nino |
| Inks | Alex Nino |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Letters | Alex Nino |
| Reprinted | from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #212 (March 1973). |
| Characters | Cain (story host); Clothilde (Pierre Gouny's wife); Pierre Gouny (sculptor) |
| Synopsis | In 1850 Paris, Pierre Gouny, a sculptor, secretly discovers how to make statues come alive. His wife Clothilde, though, wants him to concentrate only on gargoyle statues that bring in the money. Exasperated, the sculptor makes a statue of a woman, so as to escape with her. His wife destroys it prompting him to murder and conceal her, ironically, inside a gargoyle statue which then comes alive making Pierre himself part of a sculpture. |
| Genre | horror; humor |
| Script | Ed Noonchester (idea); George Kashdan |
| Pencils | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Inks | Bernie Wrightson [as Berni Wrightson] |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko (color reconstruction) |
| Reprinted | from Plop! (DC, 1973 series) #5 (May-June 1974) |