SECRETS OF SINISTER HOUSE 80 PAGE GIANT #1

DC COMICS REVIVES AN OLD TITLE FOR A LITTLE TASTE OF HALLOWEEN.  "Secrets of Sinister House" was an old DC Comics title published from 1972 - 1974 and was a companion to their other gothic horror title "Dark Mansions of Forbidden Love".  When I was a kid, I picked up a couple issues of each and some back issues over the years.  Now, for the October season, DC has revived this hoary old title for an 80 page one-shot featuring 8 "short stories" with a horror tinge to them.  Like all the other DC Comics seasonal one-shot issues of the past few years, the issues feel like a collection of inventory stories in which new talent is given a chance to produce some work to be published.  So nothing in this issue is very spectacular but rather more like a comic book hors d'oeuvres tray of super-hero horror snack bites.  And these DC Comics Halloween one-shots are always fun. 

The 8 stories feature the "Red Rain" vampiric Batman battling a monstrous Talon from the Court of Owls, the Ryan Choi Atom a Lovecraftian-like Old Worm, Zatanna and Harley Quinn teaming up against a zombie clown Dr. Bonkers, Martian Manhunter taking to the swamps to fight an alien shape shifter, Detective Chimp and Justice League Dark vs a demon . . . or is it??? . . . ,

Deadman in a haunted house, Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz inside a haunted spaceship, and John Constantine helping the ghost of a murdered Hollywood starlet exact revenge on her killer. 

Have a nice cup of coffee or cocoa and settle down to read this by the fire.