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|caption              = ''Secrets of Sinister House'' #5 (July 1972), cover art by [[Nick Cardy]].
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|startyr              = 1972
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|endyr                = 1974
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'''''Secrets of Sinister House''''' was a [[Gothic fiction|Gothic]] [[horror comics|horror]]-suspense [[comics anthology|anthology]] [[American comic book|comic book]] [[ongoing series|series]] published by [[DC Comics]] from 1972-1974, a companion to ''[[Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion]]''. Both series were originally inspired by the successful [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[soap opera]] ''[[Dark Shadows]]'', which ran from 1966 to 1971.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sacks |first1=Jason |last2=Dallas |first2=Keith |title=American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1970s |date=2014 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490564 |page=55}}</ref>

==Publication history==
After four issues as '''''The Sinister House of Secret Love''''',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cowsill |first1=Alan |last2=Irvine |first2=Alex |last3=Manning |first3=Matthew K. |last4=McAvennie |first4=Michael |last5=Wallace |first5=Daniel |title=DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle |date=2019 |publisher=DK Publishing |isbn=978-1-4654-8578-6 |page=141}}</ref> which featured [[Gothic romance]]/horror stories written by [[Michael Fleisher]] and others, the title changed to ''Secrets of Sinister House'', and the original format and romance angle were abandoned the following issue.

In the same vein as ''[[House of Mystery]]'' and ''[[House of Secrets (DC Comics)|House of Secrets]]'' (as well as its successor, ''[[Secrets of Haunted House]]''), ''Secrets of Sinister House'' was "hosted" by [[List of characters in The Sandman#Eve|Eve]] (the character debuted in issue #6) and included guest appearances by Eve's cousins [[Cain and Abel (comics)|Cain and Abel]]. In issue #16, Eve was removed as host — as editor [[Joe Orlando]] departed from the title, replaced by [[Jack C. Harris]] — to focus on the concept of the "sinister houses". The following month, she began nudging [[Destiny (DC Comics)|Destiny]] out of ''[[Weird Mystery Tales]]''.
 
''Secrets of Sinister House'' was canceled after publishing fourteen issues in two years (together, ''Sinister House of Secret Love'' and ''Secrets of Sinister House'' published eighteen issues).

Edited by [[Joe Orlando]] and [[E. Nelson Bridwell]], contributors to the title included [[Alfredo Alcala]] (issues #6, 13, 14), [[Robert Kanigher]] (#6, 9, 11), [[Sam Glanzman]] (#7), [[Michael William Kaluta]] (covers for issues #6, 7), Maxene Fabe (#8 & 11), Ruben Yandoc (#8 & 11), [[Jack Oleck]] (#9, 12, 13), [[Neal Adams]] (#10), [[Mike Sekowsky]] (#14), and [[Alex Niño]] (#8, 11-13).

== See also ==
* ''[[Haunted Love]]''

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[[Category:Fantasy comics]]
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