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In The Haunted Mansion, every room has wall to wall creeps. They make appearances in portraits, in wallpaper, in moulding. You never know where you might find a face watching over you as you try to find a way out. These subtle details create an atmosphere that finds even the bravest souls adorning the occasional cadaverous pallor.

The Haunted Mansions’ 45th anniversary may have come and gone with the weekend but that won’t stop us from continuing the celebration. We’ve got posts lined up through the better part of next week and what better time to set a spooky tone than as the Halloween season approaches at Disneyland? Better still is that many of these pictures will be available as very limited edition prints starting tomorrow (Wednesday). We were able to get a shop back up and working today so that’s another small victory on the road to fixing our website. Thanks for your patience through all of this!

We continue our celebration of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion anniversary with a picture of the gate to the Fastpass distribution area. If you’re a regular, you probably know that this area is really only in use during the Christmas season for the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay. Jack and Sally (and Christmas, of course!) draw big enough crowds to warrant the need for fastpasses, I guess.

For most of the year, this area tucked between the Haunted Mansion queue and the New Orleans Square train depot, is as peaceful as can be. Most people pass right on by, not knowing what it is. It’s one of my favorite spots in Disneyland for this reason. I’ve never been to Savannah but I imagine it to be like this based on some of the pictures I’ve seen, the threshold to a historic cemetery in a densely wooded garden.

This brings me to my inspiration for this picture — the book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I still remember the first time I saw the cover — a green tinted black and white image depicting the statue of a young girl holding bowls like scales in a setting much like this. I couldn’t describe it then, the feeling I had. I’m not sure I could describe it now. It just made me feel something deeply. Almost as if it had awoken some unknown part of me. That is the best sort of art. The kind that makes you aware, for the first time, of some connection you have to it that has inexplicably always been there.

This Haunted Mansion picture brought that feeling back for me.

The Haunted Mansion celebrates its 45th anniversary today. The New Orleans Square staple has long been one of our favorite attractions at Disneyland for its blend of light hearted chills and dark humor—not to mention the air conditioning on a hot summer day! It says a lot about an attraction for it to stand the test of 45 years and remain a fan favorite with minimal changes.

We are celebrating the Haunted Mansion anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite Haunted Mansion pictures to date. That’s not all! We’ll be posting Haunted Mansion pictures for the next 13 days and offering a number of very limited edition, never before seen pictures for sale in our shop. There may even be a special spooky project in store if we can get past the hot and cold running chills! More on that and the shop come Monday. Until then, we are still working to get our website back together. It’s still very much a work in progress, so please bear with us for a few more days as we continue to refine things and fix links.

Without further ado, let’s look alive…

Can you believe that The Haunted Mansion is about to mark its 45th anniversary? That’s a long time to perform its daily task of scaring the daylights out of guests. Perhaps the most disquieting part is that while the Mansion’s inhabitants may put out a cadaverous odor, this e-ticket shows hardly any sign of growing stale.