House Of Mystery 1951 181

“SIR GREELEY’S REVENGE!” A rich man wills half his fortune to an orphan if he can play the piano well at a concert, so the man’s relatives try to damage the boy’s hands. The rich man’s ghost becomes enraged at their behavior and drowns them in a mound of gold coins.

A puppeteer is evicted from his house and dies without knowing that the children he entertained have not forgotten him. His puppets come to life to exact revenge on the heartless man who stole their master’s home.

A skydiver lands at the House of Mystery, but Cain learns that the unexpected guest is already dead.

The peasants ask Dravos to kill the werewolf that is terrorizing their valley; little do they know that they are exchanging a werewolf for something more sinister.

A white plantation owner gets into a voodoo duel with his laborers.

Two ghosts don’t know that they are dead, and they perceive the two living people in their house to be ghosts until the living man says to his wife that the previous owners died from a gas leak, at which point the ghosts realize that they are dead.

A master artist gives his soul to Satan for the ability to be twins, one who can paint and one who can party. When a Martian child crash-lands on his remote island, Fred Marshall is taught a lesson in turning his back on humanity.

The Mayans vanished because one of their number fell in love with a girl from a neighboring tribe who was taken by the priests to be sacrificed. In his rage he cursed his home city to a vanishing doom.

An exhaustive investigation of the case of Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel,” who appeared to a family living on the Isle of Man. “I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!” During the mid-1930s, British and overseas newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a “talking mongoose” or “man-weasel” who had allegedly appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family in a remote district of the Isle of Man. The creature was said to speak in several languages, to sing, to steal objects from nearby farms, and to eavesdrop on local people. Despite written reports, magazine articles and books, several photographs, fur samples and paw prints, voluminous correspondence, and signed eyewitness statements, there is still no consensus as to what was really happening to the Irving family. Was it a hoax? An extreme case of folie à plusieurs? A poltergeist? The possession of an animal by an evil spirit? Now you can read all the evidence and decide for yourself. Seven years' research and interviews, photographs (many previously unseen), interviews with surviving witnesses, visits to the site—all are presented in this book, the first examination of the case for seventy years. In the words of its mischievous, enigmatic subject, “If you knew what I know, you'd know a hell of a lot!"