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Where else will you find a 25 PAGE “deep dive” into the Haunted Mansion — including its 18 year genesis, strange and seemingly conflicting lore, and three consecutive teams of Imagineers pulled off animation to work on Walt’s “haunted house ride”? Also: Bradley Steele Harding on how THE WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL magically recreates the vibe of Eighties local TV, Bill Van Ryn on the dark rides of Kennywood, Micah Harris on MYTH, a FROZEN backstory, and Robert Freese on how we can still visit no longer extant amusement parks by watching movies. Meanwhile, Lint Hatcher visits an honest to goodness Dinosaur Land in Virginia, Greg Gick reads the fiction of John Collier, Mike Bogue compares Toho’s original Kaiju conflict with GODZILLA VS KONG, a Victorian ghost story is shared by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, and John W. Morehead shops for Robbie the Robot at Walmart. It’s all about figuring out why we love the things we love — by mining that silvery vein of wonder that runs through them all. 96 pages / full color