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This article is about the second volume of the horror comic book series. For the first volume, see
House of Mystery
.
House of Mystery
is an American occult and horror-themed
comic book
anthology
series
, based on the series
The
House of Mystery
that ran from 1951 to 1983. The writers,
Bill Willingham
and
Lilah Sturges
(credited as "Matthew Sturges"),
[2]
[3]
[4]
debuted the series in July 2008 under the
Vertigo
imprint
of
DC Comics
.
[5]
[6]
Plot
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Cain (of
Cain
and
Abel
) attempts to return to the House of Mystery, his home in the
Dreaming
, and finds that it has disappeared. Seven years later, in
Texas
, a former architecture student named Bethany "Fig" Keele flees her burning house, saving only a handful of sketches she once made of a house from her dreams. Keele is pursued by a "Pair of the Conception", agents of an entity known as the "Omneity"; they are two people, a male and a female, always holding hands. If they let go of one another, they will disappear. The pair chases her through a door and unwittingly into the House of Mystery, where she meets the inhabitants of the house bar and discovers the terms of what is, apparently, her imprisonment. Everyone must pay for their drinks with stories and no one can leave without being picked up by the house's mysterious coachman. None of the House's occupants are sure why some people might get to leave and others not, so each person's stay is, at least ostensibly, eternal until the coachman inexplicably turns up to take them away. This does not stop some of the inhabitants from trying to get out, nor does it stop Cain from attempting to get back in.
[5]
Collected editions
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The series has been collected into eight
trade paperbacks
:
- Room and Boredom
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #1?5, 128 pages, January 2009,
ISBN
978-1-4012-2079-2
)
[7]
- Love Stories for Dead People
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #6?10, 128 pages, June 2009,
ISBN
978-1-4012-2276-5
)
[8]
- The Space Between
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #11?15, 128 pages, January 2010,
ISBN
978-1-4012-2581-0
)
[9]
- The Beauty of Decay
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #16?20 and
Halloween Special 2009
, 160 pages, released July 2010,
ISBN
978-1-4012-2756-2
)
[10]
- Under New Management
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #21?25, 128 pages, released January 2011,
ISBN
978-1-4012-2981-8
)
[11]
- Safe as Houses
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #26?30, 144 pages, released May 2011,
ISBN
978-1-4012-3154-5
)
[12]
- Conception
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #31?35 and
Halloween Special 2010
, 160 pages, released December 2011,
ISBN
978-1-4012-3264-1
)
[13]
- Desolation
(collects
House of Mystery
(vol. 2) #36?42, 160 pages, released August 2012,
ISBN
978-1-4012-3495-9
)
[14]
References
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- ^
"Vertigo Comics House of Mystery #42"
. DC Comics. Archived from
the original
on 2011-10-08
. Retrieved
2011-08-10
.
- ^
Sturges & Willingham on the New House of Mystery
Archived
2009-12-16 at the
Wayback Machine
,
Newsarama
, February 20, 2008
- ^
Sturges is Big Brother of Vertigo's "House of Mystery"
,
Comic Book Resources
, May 6, 2008
- ^
House Showing: Matt Sturges on House of Mystery
,
Newsarama
, February 17, 2009
- ^
a
b
Irvine, Alex
(2008), "House of Mystery", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.),
The Vertigo Encyclopedia
, New York:
Dorling Kindersley
, p. 88,
ISBN
978-0-7566-4122-1
,
OCLC
213309015
- ^
NYCC: Vertigo - Welcome to the Edge
,
Comic Book Resources
, April 19, 2008
- ^
Room and Boredom
details
at DC
- ^
Love Stories for Dead People
details
at DC
- ^
The Space Between
details
at DC
- ^
The Beauty of Decay
details
at DC
- ^
Under New Management
details
at DC
- ^
Safe As Houses
details
at DC
- ^
Conception
details
at DC
- ^
Desolation
details
at DC
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