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The following is a list of characters from ''The Haunted Mansion'', a popular theme park attraction located at Disneyland, Walt Disney World (in the Magic Kingdom), and Tokyo Disneyland. ==Ghost Host== The Ghost Host is one of the first characters guests to the Mansion meet, so to speak. He remains invisible throughout the tour, guiding "foolish mortals" with an ominous Mid-Atlantic accented voice (provided by Paul Frees). His gleefully sardonic narration often features death-related puns and maniacal laughter. In the Stretch Room scene near the beginning of the tour, it is revealed that he committed suicide by hanging himself from the rafters in the ceiling. During ''Haunted Mansion Holiday'', the Ghost Host is voiced by Corey Burton. In the Tokyo Disneyland Haunted Mansion, the character is voiced in Japanese by Teichiro Hori. Contrary to popular belief, he is not the character Master Gracey. The Ghost Host as Gracey meme was first spread via fan fiction written by Walt Disney World Cast Members that circulated widely online, and eventually made its way into licensed media adaptations, such as the 2003 film and the comics. This was based on the faulty assumption that the Ghost Host is the master of the house, and the "Master Gracey" tombstone, which in actuality was using an entirely different definition of "master." In a recorded demo of Paul Frees as the Ghost Host using an early version of the script, he was attributed as the "lord and master" of the mansion, but it was an aspect of the character that is unknown in the finished attraction and possibly didn't make the final cut. In the second edition of his book, ''The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies'', Imagineer Jason Surrell states, in a correction from the first edition, that "the Ghost Host is ''not'' the master of the house—Gracey or otherwise—but merely one of 999 happy haunts." In official press material from around the time of the attraction's opening in 1969, the Ghost Host is referred to as the "majordomo of the Mansion's skeleton staff," which would make him a high-ranking servant rather than the master. A similar character, known as the Phantom, narrates ''Phantom Manor'' at Disneyland Paris. He was originally voiced (in English) by horror movie icon Vincent Price, but was replaced by French actor Gérard Chevalier soon after the attraction opened. Price's performance is still used however, for the Phantom's evil laughter. In the 1969 record album ''The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion'', the Ghost Host was voiced by Pete Renaday, using an accent and manner of speaking inspired by English actor and horror movie icon Boris Karloff. The Ghost Host's famous line "Welcome, foolish mortals" was reproduced by Corey Burton in the opening titles of the 2003 film. In 2010 at San Diego Comic-Con, a teaser for a new ''Haunted Mansion'' film being produced by Guillermo del Toro was shown, in which Ian McShane provided the voice of the Ghost Host. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Haunted Mansion characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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