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Halloween 2019 Post-A-Day 29 Horror-ible The House of Secrets #106 The crème in the middle Assistant Editor – E. Nelsoen Birdwell Editor – Joe Orland March 1973 I personally never saw much of the Silver Age first series of House of Mystery. Not certain I would have been much impressed with it, to tell the truth. The title ran for ten years, from 1956 to 1966, but seemed to bend more toward mystical superhero shorts than horror anthology. Featuring bits showcasing modern-dress sorcerer Mark Merlin, the dual (and dueling) personality super-villain Eclipso, and Prince Ra-Man the Mind-Master, the title bears little resemblance to the book I grew up fondly afraid of. What’s that you say? Me, the son of an Elder God AFRAID of something? Oh, most certainly! Because you see that second series that began in August of 1969 bedeviled me to no end. I only had a couple of issues, but they were on the spinner racks when I visited the store every other weekend. With their covers by Neal Adams, Berni...

Halloween 2019 Post-A-Day 28 Horror-ible Ghostly Haunts #57 An anthology from ’78 shows us how it’s done Editor – George Wildman March 1978 Another of my crapbox finds that was part of my lost childhood collection, Ghostly Haunts #57 from 1978 came at the VERY tail end of that title’s life. Dubbed “Ghostly Haunts” after a name change in issue 21 from the prior “Ghost Manor,” the series died after 39 issues. This is the next to the last one. And as sad death it was, given that the Charlton title skirted the censors with stories that would have felt at home in any of the EC line of books. The tales were introduced by the mod-witch “Winnie the Witch,” a blue-skinned glam babe. And what tales they were! The book featured stories by Jack Abel, Vince Alascia, Nicola Cuti, Steve Ditko, Joe Gill, Pete Morisi, Warren Sattler, Joe Staton and Tom Sutton. And I know a bunch of names isn’t going to sell this as good as actual book content, so here we go… …WOAH! Before we get started, we need to ta...