#the house of secrets

[weirdlookindog]

The House of Secrets (1936)

[hellishhotel]

Spindle Comics Presents:

There's No Escape From...

THE HOTEL OF SECRETS!

(A Friday The 13th Classic!)

Original Cover:

[all-action-all-picture]

Weird War Tales No. 36, April 1975. Cover by Joe Kubert. This issue features a reprint of the 2 page story "The Day After Doomsday..." by Len Wein and Jack Sparling which had originally appeared in The House of Secrets No. 86, June-July 1970.

Many will find, um, some similarity (or lots) with the later "A Second Chance..." by Alan Moore and Jose Casanovas, a 2 page Tharg's Future Shock from 2000AD prog 245, dated 2 January 1982.

[thenightling]

The classic Horror anthology comic, The House of Secrets (Spin-off of The House of Mystery) issue 92 (first appearance of Swamp Thing) will be reprinted with art by Kelley Jones (The Sandman, Frankenstein Alive, Alive!). The House of Mystery was hosted by Cain (DC's answer to The Crypt Keeper). The House of Secrets was hosted by his brother, Abel. Both Cain and Abel and their House of Mystery and House of Secrets famously appear in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. The Swamp Thing creature in House of Secrets is a version in a story told by Abel. The backstory is a bit different but the character actually gets referenced in Swamp Thing, making it canon. This new edition will have a variant cover to promote the new Beetlejuice sequel from Tim Burton (who also directed the first Batman movie that was not tied to the 60s camp TV series).

[krafty1]

The Daily Panel 10/16/24

Image Credit: DC Comics

[super-nova5045]

and just when you think you’re at your absolute lowest a blonde motherfucker comes along and makes everything so much worse

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔢 ☕️

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The House of Secrets #115 ‘Nobody Hurts My Brother!’, ‘Remembered Dead’ and ‘Every Man My Killer!’ (1973) by Arnold Drake, Alfredo Alcala, George Kashdan, Alex Niño and others. Edited by Joe Orlando. Cover by Luis Dominguez.

(1974)

[virtual-paint]

Local man copies neighbor to disastrous effect

[marc--chilton]

house, suddenly off-subject from whatever they were talking about before: you're wearing a new tie. you never introduce new ties at the end of the week, only the beginning

wilson, who is about to get read to filth and knows it:

[lauraneedstochill]

Boy meets world, S7EP19 // post by @bookwyrminspiration // Michael Dickman, Killing flies // Margaret Atwood, Shapechangers in Winter // Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe // Better Call Saul, S1EP9 // unknown (x) // Glee, S4EP4 // Little Women (2019) // Dante Émile, After Abel // George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons // Pietro Novelli, Cain Killing Abel // unknown (x) // Genesis 4:9 // Joan Didion, South and West // Sherlock, S1EP1 // 520 Studios, I Wanted To Feel Loved Without Feeling Like I Was Begging For It // by twitter user @/thehauntedqueen.

web weaving on: Jaehaerys Targaryen & the grief of losing a child // Sunfyre & his eternal devotion // Alicent & Gwayne (coming soon)

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The House of Secrets #99 ‘Beyond His Imagination’, ‘Beat the Devil’ and ‘Goodbye, Nancy’ (1972) by Bill Meredith, Nestor Redondo, Jack Oleck, Jack Katz, John Albano, Frank Redondo and others. Edited by Joe Orlando. Cover by Mike Kaluta.

House of Secrets hand painted original cover art by Mike Kaluta

[krafty1]

"A Connecticut Ice Cream Man In King Arthur's Court"

ImageCredit: DC Comics The House of Secrets #123 Cover Artist: Frank Robbins Publisher: DC Comics Cover Date: September 1974 I love Bronze Age DC horror comics. Weird War Tales, Black Magic, Doorway to Nightmare, Swamp Thing, House of Mystery, and even Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love. So many great stories are done by some of the best in comics.

[hpmort]

My review of House of SecretS

By Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini

I didn’t like it.

I also feel like it wasn’t fully edited? The character of Eleanor is initially written as a Generic Small Child, of the sort that people who don’t know what small children are like write, which often bothered me when I was in lower elementary, as it was forbidden to read books “below your reading level” and I was reading at a Middle Reader/Young Adult level (it wasn’t rendered as such, there was some kind of numerical scale involved) when I was a small child. Also I don’t have dyslexia, my only references to the internal experience are Arthur and Percy Jackson, but I do know that it isn’t dyscalculia, and the part that was meant to establish her as dyslexic (explicitly confirmed later in the book) had her messing up with numbers, not letters.

(I am not clinically dyscalculic, but I can’t read numbers well enough to perform long division. I used to do decent mental math, but then the school system beat it out of me. Also I have spacial dysgraphia bad enough that my third grade teacher gave up and had me do my work on a sad little electric typewriter thing, but dysgraphia hasn’t been considered dyslexia since sometime in the 1900s and this book was published in 2013, so this is a largely unrelated tangent)

Actually, the primary cast in general starts out as flat stereotypes of children that might show up as minor characters in something with an adult target audience, and the way they are written later on isn’t so much as character development, or them revealing inner depth, but rather the authors spontaneously discovering that children are people and writing them as such, or perhaps simply learning how to write characters in general.

Once they reach that point, the children realize as actual characters, and Eleanor is actually depicted quite well, a realistic little girl- she knows when she’s being condescended to, she’s reasonably clever, and when told that there is a big tarantula, she reacts like all the little girls I have ever known react- she wants to see it.

Also, it would probably anger antis about the problematic™️ness of the canon ship (15yo Cordelia and 17yo Will) and also giving me not one, but two problematic ships, a Yuri and a het one, both of which are very rare for me?

I feel like Dahlia was done dirty by the writers, and liked her chemistry with Cordelia. The ending was kind of an ass-pull, and the only book that Denver Kristoff had written that seems like it would actually work as a book is The Fighting Ace; probably we just lacked the context for The Heart and the Helm, but the timeline doesn’t exactly add up for Savage Warriors; the way the book is discussed is such that Celine isn’t the central character, and if she is intended to be the protagonist, she is remarkably flat. I don’t think that people went out of their way to write fantasy heroines for the sake of doing so, if they didn’t already have some ideas for their characterization, or at least story reasons, at the time. And she reads like a flat love interest besides.

There are apparently sequels, which will probably explain the unexplained Lovecraft-adjacent stuff, but I don’t expect to seek them out. I have many more books to read, and most of them are significantly more promising and were purchased for reasons other than “hey, this is only a dollar”

Also I managed to read it in not quite one sitting, but in four hours nonetheless; I had taken a few breaks, for eating and getting water, as well as pacing and just being anxious.

[ultrameganicolaokay]

The House of Secrets #91 ‘The Eagle's Talon!’, ‘Please, Don't Cry, Johnny!’ and 'There Are Two of Me… and One Must Die!’ (1971) by Gerry Conway, Murphy Anderson, Jerry Grandenetti, Wally Wood, Sam Glanzman and others. Edited by Joe Orlando. Cover by Neal Adams.

House of Secrets #91 - DC, May 1971.

Cover art by Neal Adams.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The penisest of tunes.

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