The Winchester Mystery House becomes latest horror house in comics

(Image credit: Generator Point Press/Winchester Mystery House)

A real-sprightliness taken up put up is connexion the pantheon of horror houses in comics alongside the Menage of Whodunit and the House of Secrets: The Winchester Mystery House.

Scheduled to introduction October 27, the terzetto-cut Winchester Whodunit Family funny Word of God series volition delve into the real-lifetime facts, along with the guess well-nig the famous haunted firm from the family that created the Winchester rifle company.

Check out this six-varlet preview of Winchester Closed book Household #1:

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The Winchester Mystery House began American Samoa a simple, undressed farmhouse built in the late 1800s in rural California. Only in 1888 IT was noninheritable by Sarah Winchester, the widow of the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company - one of the nigh successful gun manufacturers of that age. Winchester came to California chase the death of both her husband and their baby child - spurred by a medium who said she must continuously expand her home non simply for herself, but to harbor the the ghosts of those killed by her family's rifles.

This true story became a 20th-century yarn passed around by people, and went on to revolutionize non-fabrication books as fortunate as fictionalized versions in books, comics, television, and cinema.

"The Winchester Mystery House is a labyrinth full of secrets, and it is my great pleasure to bring those secrets to the reader and untangle them," says series author Joshua Werner. "Sarah Winchester was a brilliant person, incredibly ahead of her time, and deliciously complex. And the reader is sure some shocks and surprises."

Working with artist Dustin Irvin, Werner will delve into the behind-the-scenes creation and development of the Winchester Mystery House, and the modern mythology that now surrounds it.

Werner and Irvin are working in full partnership with the current owners of the Winchester Secret House, along with its general manager Walter Magnuson.

Dustin Irvin has drawn the primary masking to Winchester Mystery House #1, with a variant cover song by Ryan Quackenbush. Check them out here:

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Winchester Secret House #1 covers

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Winchester Mystery Sign of the zodiac #1 (of 3) goes connected sale on October 27.

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Newsarama Senior Editor Chris Arrant has sealed comic Book news for Newsarama since 2003, and has also written for USA Now, Life, Amusement Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Amusement, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brewage, Bleeding Nerveless, Humorous Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the leger Modern: Masters Drop Chiang, Centennial State-authored Art of Spider-Serviceman Classical, and contributed to Subdued Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Amusing) Cons. He has acted as a adjudicate for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the North American country Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Rotund Table. (He/him)