Once again, Penner has conjured up a tale that will have readers spellbound. "When a book jacket has both Sarah Penner's name and the word "séance" - the novel has got to be good. Vengeance is never sweeter than in Sarah Penner’s hands." -Laurie Lico Albanese, award-winning author of HESTER THE LONDON SÉANCE SOCIETY is an explosive, immersive, time-bomb of a novel. When a grieving young woman apprentices with a world-famous medium to investigate her sister’s murder, she finds herself communing with ghosts, spirits and demons both living and dead…and discovers secrets too sinister, and supernatural powers too deep, to imagine. "Trick candles, fake messages from the dead, and other secrets of the séance trade are fodder for this brilliant novel set in 19th Century London and Paris. Haunting in the best of ways, I swear I could feel the London fog on my cheek (or was that a spirit…) as I flew through the pages." -Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace Bristling with tension and featuring strong women who aren’t afraid to defy conventions, this gothic mystery is both smart and seductive. "Sarah Penner brings history to vivid life in this atmospheric and evocative whodunnit steeped in suspense, mystery, and illusion." - Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid At the top of her game, Penner shines, and the result is breathtaking!" -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Readers will savor this suspenseful tale of the occult as they are drawn into a world unlike any other. However, the Walt Disney World hearse had been used in the 1965 Western The Sons of Katie Elder."Just when I thought Sarah Penner could not surpass her epic debut, The Lost Apothecary, she returns with an utter stunner. Contrary to urban legend, the Disneyland hearse was not used to bring Brigham Young to his final resting place. The clever photo op made its debut in September 1995 and proved to be such a hit that a similar enhancement was added to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Inspired by the popular “invisible dog on a leash” park toys, Baxter suggested hitching the hearse to a phantom horse. Disney Legend Tony Baxter, Disneyland’s creative lead at the time, argued that to do so would require a tie-in to the Haunted Mansion story. When plans for the show were abandoned, Barnick pitched parking the hearse outside the Haunted Mansion. In the early 1990s, Imagineer Bob Barnick persuaded Disneyland to buy a hearse from a local antiques dealer to use in a proposed Young Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. Also, the anthropomorphized Grandfather Clock found in the Corridor of Doors is shaped like a demon’s head, with the crooked hands moving backwards past the number 13-not 12. The spell book in Séance Circle, titled Necronomicon-Book of the Dead, is opened to pages 13. In the Grand Hall, 13 candles sit on top of the birthday cake. For example, the 13 tombstone epitaphs are tributes to Disney Imagineers, including Disney Legends X Atencio, Claude Coats, Rolly Crump, Marc Davis, and Yale Gracey. The unlucky number 13 is a recurring design element. This hidden spot proved to be such a hit that Imagineers made it official, creating a permanent pet cemetery along the attraction’s queue in 1993. The original pet cemetery was located on the right side, near what is now Splash Mountain. In the early 1980s, Kim Irvine-Walt Disney Imagineering’s senior concept designer for Disneyland and the daughter of Madam Leota herself, Leota Toombs-bought pieces of statuary from local nurseries, then asked show writer Chris Goosman to compose humorous epitaphs for dead pets. Designed by Blaine Gibson, one of the duelists was actually the famous Auctioneer himself! The pistol-carrying duelists emerging from their portraits in the ballroom scene are just two of the Audio-Animatronics® face sculpts recycled from the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. The organs in the other Haunted Mansions are exact replicas of the Disneyland original. The instrument was repainted and refitted with a bat-shaped music stand and other ghostly details. The organ in the ballroom scene is actually Captain Nemo’s pipe organ-minus the pipes!-from the 1954 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In celebration of the attraction’s 50th anniversary, we’ve uncovered a few Easter eggs we’ve been just dying to crack open for Disney fans! Ever since the Haunted Mansion first opened its creaking doors at Disneyland park on August 9, 1969, guys and ghouls of all ages have been bewildered by the mysterious manor and its 999 happy haunts.
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