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This year has marked the second season for Syfy’s shockingly excellent new horror anthology series Channel Zero, a show that takes Internet Creepypastas and transforms them into riveting, experimental, and challenging horror stories. It’s really an excellent show and this season’s story, The No-End House, has managed to surpass season 1 in every way. Given that it’s a show blending together a creepy haunted house and horror anthology I figured the time was right to dig into one of my favorite comics: The House of Mystery.
The House of Mystery was a horror/weird science anthology comic published by DC Comics starting in 1951 and running to 1983. During the ‘50s the anthology format ruled the comics medium and House of Mystery was a very popular title. Eventually, the format shifted from horror stories to superhero tales in the ‘60s when the book started publishing Martian Manhunter comics. However, when the ‘70s rolled in and comics became a bit freer and more mature the book returned to its horror roots with a vengeance and that is what I come to honor today.
