Greetings ghouls and monsters! This is the first edition of member picks for House of Horror. A while back I asked everyone in the House of Horror Newsletter for suggestions. Granted, our last entry did have some member picks as well, however, those were already planned for the most part. In this entry, we are going to be celebrating Thanksgiving with Spectre issue 6. Finally, we see a Thanksgiving story that has evil Pilgrims! Then we are going to move on to our first member pick curated by @dave_worrell, DC Comics Presents Night Force 1. This is a long one as it is 4 issues combined. Then we will read a few suggestions from @LaserPuff. Doorway to Nightmare 1 and Witching Hour 1. To close out our reading we are going to continue reading the House of Mystery 7 and 8 (2008). I hope everyone has a safe Thanksgiving!!!
If you donât see your suggestion on the reading list, have no fear as I am planning on making Member Picks a regular thing for House of Horror. I enjoy the concept of having members choose our books. Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions you have!
There are a few new horror comics hitting comic store shelves this week! We might not be reading the books right away and some of them might even be discussed in other clubs upon release. Think of this as a preview of what might be lurking in the dark corners of House of Horror.
I have read Spectre and it wasnât bad. I really enjoyed the psychedelic artwork, especially near the end of the book. The story was fine and it was interesting how they made pilgrims into bad guys, especially considering the era that this was released.
HoM 7 is a lot of fun following the group in the basement. The side story was kind of bleh. I will say they tried for something different but it fell flat for me.
HoM 8 didnât have a side story but it had the most revelations about the House of Mystery that we have seen up to this point! There is a huge surprise near the end of the book that I was not expecting in the very least and it was amazing!
I also read Doorway to Nightmare 1. I have previously read this series over the summer and enjoyed it. With Doorway to Nightmare 1 we are introduced to Madame Xanadu in her first appearance. This issue has romance and horror, which is a good mix in my opinion. For the most part, the artwork is pretty good. I had fun revisiting this comic!
Picked The Witching Hour as my read. Thatâs a really weird book. I see what Denny OâNeil was going for and it was fun. We get two pretty standard '70s horror comic stories then the âhotâ (and weird) looking sister with her cool cat horror story. Experiencing this is one of the joys of taking deep dives into the DCU.
I have just finished The Witching Hour and I agree. That book is really weird but in all of the right ways. The art by Neil Adams was fantastic but Denny OâNeil nailed it on the story side of things. I also really liked the last story as the first two, as you mentioned, were standard for the era.
I am going to read Night Force tomorrow and get my thoughts here and then post HoH 8. There are only 4 books. 2 are around 100 pages and I think you will be reading one of the 100-page books if you havenât already.
