House of Secrets (1956-1978)
English
26 pages
Issue 1
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #92
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Featuring the first appearance of the Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson! Who is this mysterious creature—part man, part vegetation—and where did it come from?
37 pages
Issue 2
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #93
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"LONELY IN DEATH!" Circumstances in an old house lead a young woman to believe that her recently deceased mother is attempting to kill her in order to have company in the afterlife! "NEVER KILL A WITCH'S SON!" A niece and her husband plot to kill her uncle for insurance money, but since the uncle's mother fancies herself a witch, the husband hatches a scheme to drive his wife to suicide so that he can get all the money. Plus, "THE CURSE OF THE CAT'S CRADLE!" and "THE BEAST FROM THE BOX."
39 pages
Issue 3
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #94
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"THE MAN WITH MY FACE!" A gambler agrees to switch bodies with a mysterious stranger in exchange for a lucky silver dollar that will allow him to never lose a bet. "HYDE AND GO SEEK!" A henpecked police officer is shocked to find out his best friend was searching for a cure for drug addiction and developed a serum that transformed him into a murderous strangler!
39 pages
Issue 4
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #95
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"CREATURE." The lonely, genius child of a surgeon puts together a patchwork playmate out of the cast-off parts from his father's anatomy experiments. "AND THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT." A ghost shows up when a couple calls for an exorcist to rid their house of a poltergeist! Plus, "THE LAST SORCERER" and "THE PHANTOM OF THE FLAMES!"
40 pages
Issue 5
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #96
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"WORLD FOR A WITCH." The children of an orphanage witness a witch seemingly travel into a painting! "BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE." A couple builds a house on a plot of land where a plantation used to stand but burned down, and the owner's ghost stills haunts the property. Plus, "THE MONSTER."
39 pages
Issue 6
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #97
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"THE CURSE OF MORBY CASTLE." A man hires someone to frighten his wealthy new bride, but can he be sure this person is among the living? "DIVIDE AND MURDER." A man uses the black magic arts to murder his own boss! Plus, "THE DAY AFTER DOOMSDAY!"
39 pages
Issue 7
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #98
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"BORN LOSERS." A scientist gives Rapp Rankin a boost of strength, but it comes with an unfortunate price. "THE NIGHT TRAIN DOESN'T STOP HERE ANYMORE!" A murderer is shocked to learn that the train he has boarded in order to get out of town after his crime is the death train. Plus, "THE SECRET HERO OF CENTER CITY."
25 pages
Issue 8
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #99
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"BEYOND HIS IMAGINATION." An artist seeks inspiration from a Gypsy seance, but when he threatens the old woman, he finds himself face to face with her in limbo! Plus, "BEAT THE DEVIL!" and "GOODBYE, NANCY."
25 pages
Issue 9
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #100
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"ROUND-TRIP TICKET." A man learns the mystic art of astral projection and uses it to cheat on his wife! Plus, "THE MAN WHO STOPPED TIME!" and "REST IN PEACE."
25 pages
Issue 10
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #101
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"SMALL INVASION!" Alien creatures create perfect human clone spies to infiltrate the human race. But did they make them too perfect? "THE SACRIFICE!" A warlock intends to sacrifice his wife to the Devil in return for a youthful appearance. Plus, "HIDING PLACE."
25 pages
Issue 11
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #102
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"MAKE A WISH!" A lonely boy in an orphanage is taken to a psychiatrist after seeing and playing in a land of elves. The hypnosis removes his ability to enter the fantasyland, and he is despondent.
24 pages
Issue 12
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #103
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"WAITING…WAITING…WAITING…" A gambler who gets involved with a scientific project to re-create Earth history in a simulation hopes to view the winner of the next atomic war, but the lab is destroyed before he can learn of the victor.
24 pages
Issue 13
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #104
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"GHOSTS DON'T BOTHER ME…BUT…" A contract killer makes the mistake of killing a ventriloquist, whose ghost sets up the killer to fall out a 10-story window by pretending to be the voice of a mute beauty the killer saw at a party.
24 pages
Issue 14
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #105
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"VAMPIRE!" A stepfather takes his child-actor son to a "vampire cave" in order to dispose of him so that he can claim a two-million-dollar trust fund, but an actual vampire gets him before he can do so.
23 pages
Issue 15
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #106
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"THE CURSE OF HARAPPA!" A man in a foreign land encounters a woman whom the natives refer to as the Bride of Death, who claims that he will end up digging his own grave if he pursues her.
24 pages
Issue 16
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #107
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"SKIN DEEP!" An ugly man has a mask made for himself in order to win the heart of a beautiful woman, but he is surprised by her reaction when he reveals his true face.
24 pages
Issue 17
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #108
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"ACT III ETERNITY." A small town of psychopaths lure out-to-pasture actors to perform the role of a vampire being pursued, which ends in the actor being staked for real.
24 pages
Issue 18
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #109
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"MUSEUM OF NIGHTMARES!" A sorcerer creates animated wax figures of killers and victims in order to play out the crimes as a game.
24 pages
Issue 19
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #110
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"DOMAIN OF THE DEAD!" A couple receive help in destroying a vampire from the ghost of a dead priest.
23 pages
Issue 20
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #111
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"A WATCHTOWER IN THE DARK." A demoness appears to a young man, which inflames his hatred of the man he works for. He kills his employer, and the demoness claims his soul.
21 pages
Issue 21
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #112
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"THE WITCH DOCTOR'S MAGIC CLOAK." A man steals a magic cloak from a witch doctor that has the power to re-grow limbs that have been torn off in animal attacks. In revenge, the witch doctor wraps the man in the cloak and generates various appendages, all sprouting from different locations on his body.
21 pages
Issue 22
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #113
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A pack of child vampires decides to leave town before they are connected to local killings. They bury their coffins upon a hill until they feel that it will be safe to return to them. They row a boat out upon frigid water, intending to occupy island caves, but one drops something overboard, and the kids lose their balance and fall into the water, where they enter a torpid state. When spring comes around and the water warms up, the vampires stir and rise up during the night. They attempt to make it back to their coffins on the hill, but they discover the townspeople have paved it over with concrete in order to set up a playground devoted to their memory. As their shovels fail to penetrate the concrete, they are burned to ash as the sun rises.
21 pages
Issue 23
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #114
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A crooked hockey player is discovered by his coach, who demands his resignation. The player pretends to agree but puts a bomb on the team's airplane, killing all aboard. He joins a new team, and the night before a big game he gets a phone call for midnight practice. He gets out on the ice, only to be confronted by skeletons. They kill him and prop up his skeleton in front of the goal.
21 pages
Issue 24
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #115
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Twins joined at the head are separated, and from then on, each takes the wounds that the other experiences.
21 pages
Issue 25
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #116
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A man makes a deal with a witch to supply a maiden in exchange for gold.
21 pages
Issue 26
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #117
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A duke makes a bargain with a witch, who demands a human sacrifice as payment, in order to gain revenge against a hated rival after the duke's wife leaves him.
21 pages
Issue 27
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #118
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A Hollywood director who murdered a scriptwriter 35 years ago overhears his wife and her lawyer plotting to replace his new premiere with a film that the lawyer had produced reenacting the murder in order to convince the director that his victim has returned from the grave seeking revenge. When he enters the projection booth to confront them, the film strangles him. It turns out the lawyer did not have time to substitute the film after all, and both he and the wife were in the audience.
21 pages
Issue 28
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #119
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Two carnival owners come across an old man and a group of dwarfs, and they threaten to harm the old man unless the dwarfs perform for their show. What they don't know is that the old man and dwarfs are a pack of vampires.
21 pages
Issue 29
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #120
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A scientist gets revenge on a partner for cheating him out of the profits of a rejuvenation machine by reverting him to an infant's body forever.
21 pages
Issue 30
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #121
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This story is told from two viewpoints. One, an old man convinced that the neighbors' kids are out to do him in with voodoo, and the other, the neighbors' son, who professes innocence.
21 pages
Issue 31
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #122
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The world's second-best pianist makes a deal with a witch for the hands of the best, but the thugs whom the witch hired to murder the victim burn the body, and Satan places the charred hands onto the would-be rival.
21 pages
Issue 32
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #123
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A cranky ghost in an old house makes friends with a young boy until the kid meets a girl and loses interest in the ghost.
21 pages
Issue 33
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #124
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The last of the Frankensteins, Edmund Frankenstein, turns out to be a mechanical construct.
21 pages
Issue 34
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #125
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A Baron thinks that he is being hexed by a little girl he suspects of being a witch and with aher cat familiar, but it''s actually the cat who is the witch, not the little girl.
21 pages
Issue 35
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #126
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A nine-year-old boy is dared by his older brother to stay overnight in a supposedly haunted house, and his brother and friend try to scare him away.
21 pages
Issue 36
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #127
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A Frenchman during the time of the Terror obsesses over the identity of the headsman, until he becomes scheduled for execution himself.
21 pages
Issue 37
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #128
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A retired train engineer who has built his own train set by hand invites a hobo to stay with him and help run the trains after the hobo helps him with a technical problem. After a toy maker offers $100,000 for the set and is refused, the hobo murders the old man and attempts to hide the body so that he can claim the money.
21 pages
Issue 38
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #129
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An explorer of the Amazon is abducted by the bee people she wishes to study and is made their queen. A stranger from out of town gets on the wrong train to go to a business meeting and is told that he must wait until the following day for another train. He sees workmen setting up a $50,000 lottery booth in the center of town and asks the ticket seller if he can buy a ticket.
19 pages
Issue 39
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #130
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A man in a card game murders another player who catches him cheating, as he wants to win enough money to buy his own ship. A father buys his little girl a doll that resembles her cruel stepmother. After the father accidentally steps on the doll and the woman's head momentarily feels like it's being crushed, she puts it down to coincidence.
19 pages
Issue 40
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #131
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A scientist and his wife become victims of a tropical disease when they withhold knowledge of a possible cure from the natives in the interest of recording the disease's progress.
19 pages
Issue 41
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #132
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A man murders an Indian guru for his supply of berry juice that allows him to stretch his body into fantastic shapes because he wants to liven up his stage act. Before the guru died, he warned the killer that too much use of the juice would affect his body to the point that it would not resume its normal shape.
19 pages
Issue 42
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #133
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A hunter steals a ruby from a cult worshipping a leopard goddess in India. In revenge, a representative of the cult tracks him down and offers an even larger diamond in exchange for the ruby, whereupon the diamond is shoved into the thief's skull.
19 pages
Issue 43
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #134
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A boy who goes to spend some vacation time with his cousins learns that they belong to a coven of werewolves.
19 pages
Issue 44
House of Secrets (1956-1978) #135
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Aunt Harriet discovers that Bill has killed her parrot, wrecked her vegetable garden, and circulated rumors to drive away the neighborhood children, all in an effort to put her away in an old folks' home and seize control of her money. She murders him with a pair of garden shears, dismembers his body, and buries the pieces outside in a newly redone vegetable garden.
