Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I by Walt Disney Company

Series: Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I

Publication: July 19th 2016 by Disney Press

Source: Borrowed from my sister, teehee

Goodreads Summary: Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With eerie illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece cloth cover, the books are designed to look like they came straight from the library in the Haunted Mansion.
Tales from the Haunted Mansion is a fun, spooky ride, just like the attraction from the Disney Parks. And if readers are familiar with the ride, they'll see elements of it throughout the entire story, from items straight of the Mansion (are those pictures stretching?) to lyrics from the narration that is heard in each Doom Buggy.
In this bone-chilling book, you will hear the terrifying tales of the Fearsome Foursome--four kids who look to out-scare each other. But just wait until they hear my spooky stories. Who am I? I am Amicus Arcane, your librarian and host. Your Ghost Host. So read on... if you dare!
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My Thoughts:

Sbooktober Challenge #2: Read a book featuring your favorite Halloween creature
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This was a fun read. If you're a huge Disney fan, I'm sure you would enjoy this no matter your age; however, it is a middle-grade read and therefore not nearly as scary as I would prefer for a horror book personally.

Within the pages, you get to read four different stories about the four different 12-year-old characters who share a common bond of loving horror stories. The characters have a weekly club where they each try to tell a scarier story than the last with an ultimate winner of the week. One day, they're meeting place changes and they're brought to...The Haunted Mansion. They meet the librarian who insists on participating in their club and proceeds to tell them tales where they themselves are a victim of horrific events.

Let's be honest, the horrific tales are quite mild as you would expect from a middle-grade book. Perhaps if I'd read this as a 13-year-old, I would've been scared of the tales and truly appreciated them. But let's be honest in another aspect: this isn't the best-written middle-grade book I've read either. It fulfills its purpose of "tales" and does in fact incorporate many events and quotes directly from the popular Disney ride, but it was a pretty meh book over all. The ending, however, was unexpected for me and made me bump the book up that last half star. What a twist it gave in the end.