"Welcome to Gracey Manor."
—The ghost of William Gracey
Gracey Manor as it appears in The New Groundskeeper
Gracey Manor (sometimes Gracey Mansion) is the name of the mansion in the Slave Labor Graphics comics. In most of the artwork, the design of Gracey Manor was directly lifted from the antebellum mansion at Disneyland. In The Interview and its sequels, the mansion was modeled after Ravenswood Manor, the house of Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor attraction.
Summary[]
Gracey Manor is located in New Orleans Square in New Orleans, Louisiana. Its street number is 1313. Initially designed by the architects Coats and Davis, who disappeared shortly after the house was built, the manor was abandoned not long after and remained a source of local ghost stories for years. Its most notable owner was a wealthy sea captain named William Gracey, who gave the mansion its title, and is now occupied by 999 ghosts, both of the house's original inhabitants and lost souls drawn to the property from all corners of the globe.
The Mansion has a recurring, though often inconsistent, set of rules binding ghosts to Gracey Manor and its surrounding area. An invisible barrier around the Mansion, its cemetery and parts of the surrounding bayou keeps ghosts and other supernatural entities from leaving the property. Additionally, ghosts haunting the outside areas, like the residents of the Pet Cemetery, are said to be unable to go inside while inside ghosts cannot leave the house. Despite these rules, human ghosts occasionally intermingle between the outside and inside within crowd scenes and more gag driven stories.
When the house hits 1000 ghosts in The Final Interview, a curse enacted by Madame Leota as revenge against Gracey goes into effect that drags the entire house from the mortal realm deep into the Earth and into an undefined limbo. Due to the comic's cancellation, this plot thread was never fully resolved.
Notable inhabitants[]
The following names are of individuals who occupy or have occupied Gracey Manor and its grounds (most of whom are ghosts).
- Lord Albert Dunswallop
- Baronessa Elda (AKA "Hilda")
- "Big Hobbs"
- Bisclavret
- Coats
- Davis
- Daisy de la Cruz
- Emily de Claire
- Erasmus Cromwell Pickwick
- Ethyl White
- Ezra Gasser
- Fred
- Gus
- Hawley
- Hobbs
- Horace Fusslebottom (AKA "Dick")
- Leota
- May
- Michelle
- Mirabelle
- Randall Pace
- Sarah
- "Skinny Hobbs"
- Steve
- Steven
- Theodore
- Topper McGurk
- Victor
- William Gracey (AKA "Captain Blood")
- Winslow
Trivia[]
- The mansion's address being 1313 isn't only because the number 13 is affiliated with the supernatural or because of it's prevalence within the attraction. 1313 is actually the address of Disneyland itself as the letter "M" is the 13th letter of the alphabet so 1313 translates as "MM", the initials of Mickey Mouse. The 1313 house number has continued to be used in merchandising for the Mansion.
- Gracey Manor is also the name of the titular mansion in the 2003 film. In The Misery of the Manse Part One (Haunted Mansion #7), Gracey Manor is modeled after the version in the 2003 film.
- In 2012, Gracey Manor was canonized as the "real" name of the house in the Walt Disney World attraction.
- In Blueprint for Murder (Haunted Mansion #1), a framed picture of the Walt Disney World mansion hangs on the wall of the Coats and Davis office.