Secrets of Haunted House #44 is an issue of the series Secrets of Haunted House (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1982.
Synopsis for "The Halloween God"
A local farmer invites a writer up to Pineville Corners, to see the Halloween God which lives in their pumpkin patch. He tells the writer the creature is harmless, but what he doesn't tell him is that every twenty years it sacrifices itself to create new goblins and the goblins make the writer into the new Halloween God.
Appearing in "The Halloween God"
Narrator:
- Abel (Host)
Other Characters
Dates:
- October 27 ~ 31, 1981
Antagonists:
- Edwin Sloan, fake psychic investigator
- Hiram
- Reed
Locations:
- Pineville Corners, New Hampshire
- Brandon Estate, and mysterious pumpkin patch
- Brandon Estate, and mysterious pumpkin patch
Synopsis for "One Small Difference!"
Two interplanetary scavenger-hunt cheaters meet an ironic comeuppance and get decapitated by alien interplanetary scavenger-hunters.
Appearing in "One Small Difference!"
Antagonists:
- Kaj Rimshot, professional gambler (Dies)
- Nyla Rimshot, professional gambler (Dies)
- wealthy dilletantes
- Rab, accomplice
Locations:
- Planet Alpha
Synopsis for "Keeper of the Orb"
Shiva-worshipping cultists use occult means to assassinate a colonial administrator and arrange to send a second dangerous occult object on its way to Europe.
Appearing in "Keeper of the Orb"
Antagonists:
- Rogan, soldier of fortune
- Chief Colonial Administrator (Dies)
- Kayatta, High Priestess of the Cult of the Orb of Sublime Deception (dead)
- Cult of the Orb
Other Characters:
- Dr. Neville, British Museum
Locations:
- Djakarta, Java, Dutch Indonesia, 1923
- Temple of the Cult of the Orb of Sublime Deception
Items:
- Orb of Sublime Deception (Destroyed)
- Orb of Sublime Deception
Notes
- This issue opens with a three-page introduction, and ends with a full-page Halloween-party scene, with art by Howard Bender and Rodin Rodriguez, featuring Abel, Lucien (Librarian at Ghost Castle), Squire Shade (who rides the Nightmare Coach), Cain, Eve (1,000 Year-Old Woman), Eegor (ex companion of the Weird Sisters), the Cat (self-styled star of The Unexpected), Judge Gallows (also from the Unexpected), Warden Fry (runs a prison in Hell), and Death (from Weird War Tales).
- The 2nd and 3rd stories have no visible narrators.
Trivia
- Letters page has a letter from Todd McFarlane.
See Also