Ghostly Wails and Untold Tails

I went into Barnes & Noble a few days ago to see if by chance they had started putting out any of their Halloween books for children or adults. Unfortunately they had not. But I did discover something that was really fabulous. Of course you all know that I am from Florida, and all life long Florida residents are required to be huge Disney fans by law. So I was in the magazine section looking for Fall Arts, Crafts or Decorating mags when my third eye spied something ghostly hovering over to my right. I whip my head around to see a large painted image of Disney's Haunted Mansion on the cover of a magazine that I had no idea existed until that very moment. So I run over there, snatch it up and proceed to remove it from it's cellophane bag. I think to myself that this hygienic approach to keeping the magazine in pristine condition is just SO WALT DISNEY!

The magazine is called Disney twenty-three, and I had stumbled onto the Fall 2009 edition. And what a lucky witch I was too, because this is a VERY nice, VERY cool magazine in it's own right. But to have the cover and main story to be all about the Haunted Mansion...well it was just simply kismet I tell you. When the cover entices with a title like, "Ghostly Wails and Untold Tales, from inside the Disneyland Haunted Mansion", you KNOW it has to be good. It is chock full of wonderful little inside stories about the mansion, the ghosts and the Imagineers who created the ride. It of course has fabulous photos and artwork too. AND...as if that weren't ghostly enough for mere mortals like myself...the title 'Haunted Mansion', and one of the ghouls inhabiting the cover painting actually Glow in the Dark....now how grand is that? The cover could and should be matted and framed, as it is quite large and a truly fabulous piece of art. Did I mention that this is an over sized magazine and the newsstand price is a rather hefty $15.00? Tis' true, but to a Disney/Haunted Mansion/Ghost lover like me, it's well worth the price of admission as all things associated with Disney always are. You can check out the magazine on the D23 website where they even share a few Haunted Mansion Magic Tricks. I've posted a video below of a tour through the mansion in California if you want a closer look at the ride. As for the magazine, I could not locate it on the B&N website, but it was available in the store. So if you want one, you best capture it quickly before it vanishes like a........GHOST in the night!

Oh, and one final cool piece of info about the attraction itself.....in celebration of the 40th birthday of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, four guests won a chance to spend one night in the famed attraction on August 9th. How Spooktacular would THAT be!!!