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|Title= The Little House That Wasn't There
|image= [[Image:md-2003-10-13.png|400 px]]<br>[[Image:Md-2021-03-22.png|400 px]]<br>''(Re-released in 2021)''
|Start= October 13th, 2003
|End= February 21st, 2004
|Strips= 114 (19 weeks)
|Writer= [[Fred Fredericks]]
|Artist= Fred Fredericks
|Preceded= "[[Lights! Camera! Danger!]]"
|Followed= "[[Footsteps from the Past]]"
|}}
'''"The Little House That Wasn't There"''' is the 246th Mandrake [[daily story]]. 
The story was written and drawn by [[Fred Fredericks]].

== Plot Summary ==
Mandrake has signed a contract to write a book about magic in the 21st century. Van, the publisher, offers Mandrake to lend his weekend house so Mandrake can find peace and quiet to write. Miles away from civilization Mandrake starts to write while Narda starts exploring the woods. Although there should be no other houses nearby she discovers a house with a mysterious couple. When she was back she asked Mandrake if he would accompany her to pay a social call on the couple. But when they reached the place where should be, the little house had disappeared. Next day Narda went to the village store and took the shortcut over Rocky Notch, and there again she saw the mysterious house, miles away from where she saw it first. 

===Appearances===
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'''Recurring characters'''
*[[Mandrake]]
*[[Narda]]
*Stryfe, a [[The Deleter|Deleter]] - a hired killer (from Tusos)

'''One-time characters'''
*Van, a publisher
*Art, Van's caretaker
*June, living in the little house (in an outer space witness protection program)
*Augie, June's housbond (in an outer space witness protection program)
*Sheb, a fresh guy

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'''Locations'''
*New York
**[[Xanadu]]
*Timber Lake, north in the mountains
**A village
**Rocky Notch
*Tusos, a planet at the edge of the galaxy
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==Behind the scenes==
*The title for the story is taken from the strip of October 13, 2003 (Beginning: The Little House That Wasn't There !).
*If Tusos people sleep with all three eyes closed they can be traced, anywhere in the universe.
*Mandrake pursues June in invisible form in this story. Usually this is explained with ''Mandrake gestures hypnotically''. But neither June nor her husband have seen Mandrake - so how can he be invisible to them?

== Re-released story in 2021 ==
[[Image:Md-2021-03-22.png|400 px]]
*Start date: 22 March 2021 / End date: 31 July 2021.

== Reprints ==
This story has been published in the following publications:

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