Elvira’s House of Mystery

Elvira has long been a cult favorite on the small screen. As host of her own late-night TV show, she would show truly terrible horror movies, using the time around commercial breaks to ridicule the movie with a series of awful jokes. And then there was the dress…

Naturally, when DC wanted a host for its new House of Mystery series, it chose her. So, for a brief, eleven-issue run, the Mistress of the Dark had a new career. Instead of hosting terrible horror movies, she hosted some rather nice horror comic stories. Fans of the older House of Mystery series will be cheered to note that their old host, the ghoulish Cain, returned in issue #10 to stage a palace revolt. He got his comeuppance soon after, however, when his brother Abel, the old House of Secrets host, pushed Cain aside to host the eleventh and final issue.