"A pirate, a poet, a bartender and a drama queen are trapped in a bar. No, that's not a joke, that's the classic DC horror anthology House of Mystery, newly brought back by Vertigo. House of Mystery has a history going back to 1951, but the reader needs no context to understand the book: people are trapped in a magical inn between worlds and tell weird tales and horror stories. The newest captive is Fig, an architecture student who was once the heroine of a set of children's novels, and she immediately enters into a love/hate relationship with the house, talking to it like an old friend but trying desperately to escape. House of Mystery is the kind of creative, low-intensity horror that Vertigo made its name on. Rossi provides the vibrant, dynamic art for the framing story, while a succession of artists showcase their skills on the individual tales written by Willingham and Sturges. Sturges's 'Familiar' is particularly delightful, with Steve Rolston's candy-colored art illustrating the tale of a fantasy-novel princess gone happily wrong, as she feeds her suitors to her adorable talking leopard and then goes roller-blading in the park. From Graywolf: two April books by J. Robert Lennon." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Matthew Sturges, writer of the Eisner-nominated JACK OF FABLES, and his JACK co-writer Bill Willingham, proudly unlock the doors to the HOUSE OF MYSTERY, a series that reinvents a classic DC Comics comic. HOUSE OF MYSTERY focuses on five characters trapped in a supernatural bar, trying to solve the mystery of how and why they're imprisoned there. Each one has a terrible past they'd like to forget, and with no books, newspapers or TV allowed in the House, they face an eternity of boredom. But stories become the new currency, and fortunately, the House attracts only the finest storytellers.