Earlier this month, I predicted that a new book called The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies would suck — it was packaged for 9-12 year-olds, and I thought it would likely be a brochure disguised as a book, targetted at kids.
I was so wrong. This is a really loving, thorough, adult history of the Haunted Mansion, an appredciation by someone who is clearly a dedicated fan of the ride and who has spent an enviable amount of time talking to some of the principals involved and digging through the Disney archives (the archival material reproduced in the book is stunning, and includes a lot of stuff that I've never seen in a lifetime of Mansion fandom). I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I take it all back. This does not suck.
