The room is a large square, tall, and opulent: those two windows which face outside, long sealed shut from within, are framed by the ornate curtains and lace hangings of upper-victorian nobility. The ceiling is plastered and patterned, and the delicate paisley wallpaper looks like nothing so much as a thousand repeated faces, when the light hits it right…
Where candlelights flicker...
Around the room, tall candles rest in sconces and cast a flickering glow across the wallpaper and ornate wood carved paneling. Far above, an ornate, crystal-draped chandelier flickers with dozens of candles. The gloom barely distinguishes two large doors set into the wall at the farthest two walls of the foyer and decorated with carved wood frames in a classical style. A large mirror hangs on the north wall, and another in the corner of the south wall faces it, set into a corner, tarnished and worn.
Illuminating the gloom...
Through this room the sound of a pipe organ being played in some adjacent chamber rumbles, the deep bass tones of the funeral dirge accented by chiming bells. After some wait, a voice, coming from nowhere, speaks.
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When hinges creak in door less chambers,
and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls... whenever candle
lights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts
are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight! |
Slowly, one of the two large doors opens, revealing a candlelit gallery beyond…
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Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted
Mansion. I, am your host. Your ghost host. Kindly step all the way in,
please, and make room for everyone. There’s no turning back now. |
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