This drawing was an attempt to duplicate the environment of the Haunted Mansion. The tile and rug work was found on the internet and repainted in Photoshop. I made the girl's dress look slightly different than the actual park costumes.
So, this drawing is about how the mansion got haunted in the first place (I haven't seen the movie). It was this woman that started the chain of the 999 deaths. She was having an affair with Master Gracey, the owner of the mansion. She was madly in love with him. But, she found out that he was arranged to be married. And since she was part of lower class society, she could never be with him.
Master Gracey only fed her obsession by telling her how if she killed his bride to be, that they would run away together. She gladly accepted and murdered the bride to be in the attic by pushing her out the window. She later had told her master that the deed had been done only to find out that she had been used to do his dirty work and that Gracey did not lover her.
She bashed him over the head with a fireplace poker where he died (the fireplace with the decaying face painting before entering into the ride). She had placed his body on the chair that was facing the fireplace and locked the room behind her. After that, she killed herself. And that is when the haunting began.
Kinda scary for a Disney ride, but meh.
The Haunted Mansion is copyright Disney.

Submitted to the June 2006 contest