House of Mystery (Vertigo)

Infobox comic book title
title = House of Mystery


imagesize =
caption =Cover of "House of Mystery" #1 (July 2008). Art by Sam Weber.
schedule = Monthly
ongoing = Y
Horror = y
publisher = Vertigo
date = July 2008 -
issues =
main_char_team =
writers = Matthew Sturges
Bill Willingham
artists = Luca Rossi
Ross Campbell
pencillers =
inkers =
letterers = Todd Klein
colorists = Lee Loughridge
Ross Campbell
editors = Shelly Bond
Angela Rufino
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creative_team_year =
creators =
TPB = Room and Boredom
ISBN = 1-40122-079-7
subcat = Vertigo
sort = House of Mystery

House of Mystery is an occult and horror-themed comic book anthology series based on the classic "House of Mystery" series that ran from 1951 to 1983. It is written by Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges. It debuted in July 2008, published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.Citation | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = House of Mystery | editor-last = Dougall | editor-first = Alastair | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia | pages = 88 | publisher = Dorling Kindersley | place = New York | year = 2008 | ISBN = 0-7566-4122-5 | oclc = 213309015] [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16084 NYCC: Vertigo - Welcome to the Edge] , Comic Book Resources, April 19, 2008] [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16316 Sturges is Big Brother of Vertigo’s "House of Mystery"] , Comic Book Resources, May 6, 2008]

Plot

Cain (of Cain and Abel) attempts to return to the House of Mystery, his home in the Dreaming, and finds that it has disappeared. Meanwhile, in Texas, a former architecture student named Bethany "Fig" Keeler flees her burning house, saving only a handful of sketches she once made of a house from her dreams. Keeler 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 doesn't stop some of the inhabitants from trying to get out, nor does it stop Cain from attempting to get back in.

Collected editions

The series is being collected into trade paperback:

*"Room and Boredom" (collects "House of Mystery" #1-5, 128 pages, January 2009, ISBN 1-40122-079-7) [ [http://dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=10788 "Room and Boredom" details] at DC]

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References

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