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And Jason Aaron talks SCALPED at CBR and IGN reviews issue #32.

This October, Vertigo is publishing its first ever HOUSE OF MYSTERY Halloween Annual with insert stories from some of our ongoing series including HELLBLAZER, MADAME XANADU, and the upcoming I, ZOMBIE.

This special issue also includes some fun Halloween related questions answered by many of its amazing contributors. Here’s an exclusive sampling. Enjoy!

What’s the eeriest thing that’s ever happened to you?

MICHAEL ALLRED, artist I, ZOMBIE
When I was in high school I was lying in bed trying to go to sleep. I opened my eyes to find a black figure looking down at me about eight inches from my face. It had no features. And it filled me with pure terror. It absolutely had an evil presence to it. There was a street light outside my window giving the room a soft glow, yet I couldn’t make out anything but a shape as I froze in a freaky staring contest. I eventually got the nerve to move and quickly rolled off the other side of the bed and grabbed my baseball bat on the floor. When I sat up it had moved to the far side of the room which was open to the stairs. The figure had its back up against the wall and slowly oozed down the stairs. I yelled for my folks who slept downstairs. I heard them stirring. They were kind of mad actually that I was yelling my head off late at night. I ran to the light switch and as soon as I turned on the lights, the shape was gone. I hope I never see it again.

GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI, artist HELLBLAZER
I have no eerie story, but if you allow me, I can tell you this: I met my wife at Halloween (which makes it very easy for me to remember the day we met!). It was at Lucca, in Italy, during the annual Comic Convention. I met Jessica in the evening, through common friends, and we really couldn’t wait until dinner was done to kiss each other, when she invited me over the counter, to have a couple of drinks on our own, in a more intimate corner. That was an unforgettable moment for us. Oh, wait, now I remember an eerie detail: The day after we met, at night, we were making out in my car, and at some point we heard some noise, and there was a bunch of cosplayers from the Comic Convention passing on the street: an elf, an ogre, a magician—Now, that was creepy!!

MATTHEW STURGES, writer, HOUSE OF MYSTERY
I went rock climbing once when I was twelve. I’d just pulled myself up onto a narrow ledge and had begun to ascend the incline beyond when I slipped on a loose rock and tumbled backward. In that instant, I pretty much knew I was dead, because the ground was about fifty feet below me. Instead of plunging to an early demise, however, I slammed into a tree that was growing improbably out from the corner of that narrow ledge. Now, the weird thing about this was that when I was climbing up the ledge, that tree WASN’T THERE. I’m sure of this, because if it had been, I would have used it to climb up. I climbed down, shaken, and didn’t climb anything more dangerous than stairs for years afterward.

Everyone’s got a different perspective on the difference between a house and a home. A House is just a structure, but Home is where the heart is, right?

Growing up in an Italian household in Philadelphia, volume control at the dinner table wasn’t high on the list of priorities. If my family’s dinner conversation were a musical style, it would be classified as “screamo.” To a lot of people it would seem like the place was filled with a cacophony of sound, but that’s what makes a house a home.

Well, as you’ll soon be finding out, the House of Mystery isn’t just a House. And even though you’ve gotten to know its many varied tenants, it’s not just a Home either.

In fact, the House itself is getting more action than most of us reading this right now. Why? Because one of the Mysteries that’s about to be solved is that the House is Harry the bartender.

Or rather, Harry is the physical embodiment of the House’s psyche. And I can’t let slip here, but he’s not the only resident with a pretty severe identity crisis.

Leave it to Matt Sturges to fill the House with twists and turns. As some eagle-eyed readers may have already realized, he’s also packed this sordid tale with a series of puzzles. I’m only willing to give you one hint – the spread below, amazingly illustrated by Luca Rossi, contains an element that will have a direct impact on our special Halloween issue.

While we’re discussing upcoming events, the next HoM arc is going to see more murder than your average weekend in Camden. Body counts through the roof. No one’s safe. These issues? Not for the faint of heart. And speaking of hearts, poor Harry’s might end up broken by the time it’s all over.

What better place for a Halloween party than the HOUSE OF MYSTERY? And guess what? You’re all invited.

This October we’re publishing our first ever Halloween Annual. This special 48-page book will contain a framing story by the regular HOM creative team, writer Matthew Sturges and artists Luca Rossi and Jose Marzan Jr. However, it will also included short stories from HELLBLAZER by Peter Milligan, Giuseppe Camuncoli and Stefano Landini and MADAME XANADU by Matt Wagner, Amy Reeder Hadley and Richard Friend as well as a special MERV PUMPKINHEAD tale (the first in over 8 years!) by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham and Kevin Nowlan.

What? That’s not enough?

You’ll also be treated to a yarn spotlighting a new monthly series!

Come back this afternoon for the second major part of this announcement.

Find out the answer in the conclusion of “The Space Between.” HOUSE OF MYSTERY #15 is a jam packed issue that also reveals Harry’s true identity, Figs heritage and many other answers you’ve been pondering. This issue will satiate your appetite for all things House related as you patiently await the mysterious new storyline that begins next month.

War…again? This time it’s within the confines of THE GREAT FABLES CROSSOVER as Mister Revise and the rest of the Heroes gather high power weapons and take on The Genres a.k.a The Villains in JACK OF FABLES #35.

Check out these fantastic two page spreads drawn by Russ Braun:

What is Kevin Thorn about to write next? Will the Fables survive? Find out in THE LITERALS #3 next week with a sneak peek on Monday.