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"Vertigo&amp;#039;s House Of Mystery is heading for darker territory in its third year, according to writer Matt Sturges. October sees the release of a special Halloween annual, featuring cameos from John Constantine, Madame Xanadu and Merv Pumpkinhead. Following the book&amp;#039;s release, the comic series will head in a darker, more layered direction. &amp;quot;This storyline, I knew that I wanted it to be kind of grizzly,&amp;quot; Sturges told Newsarama. &amp;quot;The previous story had been more talky and less horrorish. I wanted to bring it back around to a more horror sensibility. That&amp;#039;s why it&amp;#039;s a little bloodier than things have been recently. I really wanted it to be as brutal as possible.&amp;quot; The horror series began in May 2008. Each issue features a different story told by people trapped in a &amp;quot;purgatory-like&amp;quot; house. Sturgess is planning to revamp the book from issue #21. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m writing issue #21 to be very new-reader-friendly because it&amp;#039;s sort of a new start for a lot of the characters in the series and for the house itself,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;ve been wanting to start the series but have been leery about jumping in in the middle, this would be a great place to pick it up.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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