A small advance shipment of the Haunted Mansion: Welcome, Foolish Mortals hardcover books with slipcases came into the SLG office several days ago. Appropriately, I got my copy on Halloween. I would have shared this earlier but I was too busy/lazy to whip out the camera (this might be a good time to apologize for the badly cropped photo -- the best of a bad batch). It was a wonderful treat to hold the end product in my hands after so much effort (my design work on the book is chronicled at great, great length starting here). I was at SLG when they did their first book collections a couple of decades ago and they were pretty modest affairs (the first book covers didn't even have UV coating and tended to scuff pretty bad). But this Haunted Mansion thing is, I think, the most elaborate book SLG has published and I hope we get to do more deluxe presentations. It's worth noting, if I haven't already mentioned it, that Dan (Vado, Head Monkeyboy at SLG) really drove this thing. He wanted the slipcase. He wanted the black embossed cover. The deckled edges were his idea. I just jumped in, fussed with the details, and put it together. But this project is Dan's baby.
That's a great looking book. I'm sure hoping that it's not cost-prohibitive to get all of us contributors a copy of it, 'cause I'd sure like to have one for my book shelf. Great design.
Thanks. I would imagine contributors will get copies sometime after SLG gets its final shipment of books late in November/early in December. Dan or Jennifer would know for sure.