For the permanent residents of the House of Mystery, however, things are not so simple. First off, they are trapped--able to go no further than the yard. They face regular visits from murderous entities; mysterious, faceless couples with unknown goals; and an indifferent fathers who is the house's architect. Even worse, some find out that they don't even exist outside the house and face disappearance or reabsorption.
The storytelling nature of this comic series provides the opportunity for a myriad of strange, creepy tales to be intertwined between the lives of the permanent characters: Fig, the heroine; her current love interest/bartender (Harry or Jordan); a saucy female pirate; a tough and sarcastic waitress; brothers Cain and Able, a la Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics; and a homosexual goblin named Tursig. Occasionally one or two stories wanders outside my interest range, but the ongoing plot always draws me back in, or another traveler will tell a particularly compelling, gothic tale, and I'll be hooked again.
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