Knight Terrors #3 adds a terrifying new location to the DC universe
DC's Knight Terrors event continues this week with the penultimate issue of the core series, as well as more of the character-specific spinoff series, being published today. And, as has become something of a tradition with this series, there's a direct link to Neil Gaiman's iconic horror comic, The Sandman.
In Knight Terrors #3 Damian Wayne and Batman's body - which is currently possessed by Deadman - travel to "the Hollow", a place described as being "not quite the waking world or the dreamscape", in search of the Nightmare Stone. While there, Deadman casually mentions that he has visited both the House of Mysteries and the House of Secrets.
These locations will be familiar to long-term DC fans and readers of The Sandman as the homes of Cain and Abel. Knight Terrors #3 goes a step further, however, by introducing a new location: the House of Horror.
In this sinister shack, Boston Brand is forced to confront the lies that he has told people about his death. As he reveals to Damian, "I always tell people I was dead before I hit the ground. But that wasn't true. I felt the bullet. I felt the impact."
It's all part of a final test before the heroes can acquire the Nightmare Stone that villain Insomnia has been searching for. Deadman retrieves it, but the issue ends with an ominous cliffhanger that suggests that something is controlling Deadman while he in turn controls Batman's body.
The House of Mystery and the House of Secrets are strange locations in the DC universe that both exist in reality and in the Dreaming. Little is known about them except that Cain (the dream that embodies the first murderer) lives in the House of Mystery, while his brother Abel (the first victim) inhabits the House of Secrets.
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