The art is by Teddy Kristiansen, with occasional assistance by Christian Højgaard, and guest artists Guy Davis, Duncan Fegredo and the Pander Brothers.

It debuted in October 1996, published by the Vertigo imprint of American company DC Comics and ran for 25 issues, followed by a two-issue miniseries called House of Secrets: Facade by the same creative team in 2001.

After defendant souls present their secrets to be judged by a tribunal of spirits, sentence is pronounced upon them and they are sent to either the attic, the world, or the basement, which are stand-ins for Heaven, Purgatory and Hell.

The Juris is composed of the Plyck, a flaming hand; Pfaultz, a sexual predator who masqueraded as a health inspector using someone else's edict from Emperor Charles IV; Ni An, a Japanese woman who accepted blame for her older sister's murder of their mutual husband; Clius, a Roman bust who was once a scribe and playwright who had offended Hadrian; and Digol, an ancient Greek who wrote down the law to remember it.

Rain decides to leave Seattle, but returns not long afterwards to find her dead mother condemned to the basement for keeping the secret of her diagnosis with ovarian cancer during her lifetime.