title: Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome
author: Amicus Arcane
description: Gr 47Middle schoolers Willa, Tim, Noah, and Steve bond over their love of horror and form The Fearsome Foursome, their storytelling club. They meet weekly to share tales of ghosts and ghouls. One day, their headquarters gets demolished in a freakish storm. In the wreckage, the quartet find four fancy invitations to an address on the other side of town. Intrigued, they find it's a Gothic mansion, which seems deserted except for the librarian, who is the keeper of all scary stories. It turns out the librarian has a story to read about each of them, and he insists they will be dying to find out how these tales end. This is the first in a new series based on the Disney theme park ride the Haunted Mansion. The selections are gruesomesome include rotting corpsesbut are not too frightening for most middle grade readers. VERDICT An excellent addition for freshening up scary stories collections; hand this to fans who have graduated from "Goosebumps" or are looking for a new scare.Beth Cuddy, Seward Elementary School, Auburn, NY
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Title Page](../Text/Haunted_split_001.html#filepos266)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dedication](../Text/Haunted_split_003.html#filepos7784)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](../Text/Haunted_split_004.html#filepos8146)
  
  
  
  
  
  [France / 1666](../Text/Haunted_split_005.html#filepos9060)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](../Text/Haunted_split_006.html#filepos25853)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](../Text/Haunted_split_007.html#filepos38916)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](../Text/Haunted_split_008.html#filepos56036)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](../Text/Haunted_split_009.html#filepos68253)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](../Text/Haunted_split_010.html#filepos84161)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Massachusetts / 1892](../Text/Haunted_split_011.html#filepos105127)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](../Text/Haunted_split_012.html#filepos110175)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](../Text/Haunted_split_013.html#filepos132385)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](../Text/Haunted_split_014.html#filepos145536)
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](../Text/