The Crowley Manor

The Crowley Manor is an Irish children's supernatural fantasy graphic novel series written by Irish author, Nicholas Braugh. It centers around a maid, a footman and a butler residing in a Victorian-era mansion which is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of the original owner 200 years after his death. The first novel, The Crowley Manor has been published on October 31, 1990 in the United Kingdom and October 27, 1991 in the United States.
The series was originally published in English by two major publishers, TBA in the United Kingdom and Scholastic Press in the United States.
==Summary==
In Dublin, Ireland, Alistair Crowley—the original owner—has lived in the Crowley Manor since it was built in 1790. He has lived with a bumbling, overweight footman, Gus and a deadpan, cynical maid, Catherine. Unfortunately, when Alistair became assassinated, Gus died from a heart attack and Catherine committed suicide from hanging, they come back as ghosts to haunt the manor. 200 years later after Alistair's death, new owners have arrived—which consists of a intelligent butler, Victor, an cowardly African-American footman, George, a bossy maid, Isabelle, Victor's perky 8-year-old daughter, Priscilla, and Isabelle's moody 13-year-old son, Jacob. Unfortunately, strange hauntings happen in the manor: unexpected cold chills in the air, cupboards and cabinets open mysteriously, doors and walls bulge through, chains clank and rattle, moans, wails, whispers, and footsteps are heard, and objects float and move around. The living new owners realize that the Crowley Manor is actually haunted.
But when George first encounters the ghosts of Alistair, Gus and Catherine, he screams in fear and runs away as Priscilla and Jacob suddenly befriend them. As Alistair tells them the secret about the Crowley Manor, he said that it has been haunted by 100 ghosts. But when an evil wraith-like phantom wants to take over the manor and kidnaps the three ghosts, it's up to Victor and his friends to save them!
==Characters==
===Humans===
*Victor - A intelligent butler and one of the new owners of the Crowley Manor.
*George - A cowardly African-American footman and one of the new owners of the Crowley Manor.
*Isabelle - A bossy maid and one of the new owners of the Crowley Manor.
*Priscilla - Victor's perky 8-year-old daughter and one of the new owners of the Crowley Manor.
*Jacob - Isabelle's moody 13-year-old son and one of the new owners of the Crowley Manor.
*The Ghost Hunting Crew consists of:
**Ashley - The leader.
**David - The tech expert.
**Marjorie - The detective.
**Travis - The comic relief.
===Ghosts===
*Alistair Crowley - The original owner of the Crowley Manor who was assassinated 200 years ago and came back as a ghost. When he was alive, he is friends with Gus and Catherine. He loves art, architecture, and classical music. He can carry around a candelabra, even when he's either alive or a ghost. As a ghost, he is very friendly towards humans. He can shapeshift into his human disguise at will.
*Gus - A bumbling, overweight footman who has died from a heart attack. He is very dimwitted, clumsy, fun-loving and serves as a comic relief. As a ghost, he repeatedly leave ectoplasm all over when he phases through solids and can bulge through doors and walls even if his belly is big enough when he eats enough food. When he eats, food falls through his see-through stomach and later dissolves and disappears. He is also flatulent and very gassy, he tends to turn invisible when he passes gas and turns visible when he does it again. When farting repeatedly, he turns himself invisible, then visible again. He is also nicknamed as "The Gas Ghost", "The Gassy Ghost" or "Gus the Gassy Ghost". He can also shapeshift into his human disguise. But when he farts, he either floats around or turns into his normal ghostly form. He also farts again when he gets back on the ground or turns back into his human form. Farting repeatedly can result in floating in the air or turning into his ghost form, then floating down back to the ground or back into his human form again. While having a cowardly-like personality, he turns invisible when he gets scared. He really loves ghost puns and jokes, in particular his most favorite ghost joke: the "boo-berry" pie joke.
*Catherine - A deadpan, cynical maid who hanged herself to death while mourning over the loss of Alistair. As a ghost, her personality and appearance remains the same, except she doesn't mind humans nor ghosts making friends with humans, for the most part. Like other ghosts, she can shapeshift into her human disguise.
*The Door Ghosts - Unknown ghosts who haunt each and every door in the manor. They knock and bang on and bulge through doors and even rattle doorknobs. They can also speak, but grunt and groan when they tend to bulge through. They also lack intangiblity when it comes to bulging through doors, but when they bulge out too hard, their belly button pops out through the door. Their ways of haunting doors is basically a homage of the door scene from the 1963 classic film, The Haunting.
*The Gluttony Ghosts (often nicknamed as The Stomach Ghosts, The Belly Ghosts and The Gut Ghosts) - Possessor energy ghosts that are born out of the hunger, obesity and gluttony of humans. They have made up a type of ghostly energy called "hunger energy", which makes them stronger and powerful. When humans eat enough food, it makes them and their energy stronger and powerful. They manifest in the form of spirits that resemble beer gut-like stomachs with visible belly buttons. They have wispy tails on the top of their body and doesn't even have limbs. Despite having lack of faces, they can speak. Like Gus and The Door Ghosts, they can bulge through solids. When they possess people, they can bulge through their stomach as they glow a ghostly color, turn them into overweight ghosts, make them float in the air and bulge through doors and walls. What weakens the ghost is exorcising the humans they possess out of their bodies. Like Gus, they repeatedly leave ectoplasm all over when they phase through solids.
*The Wraith - A phantom-like wraith who wants to take over the manor. He kidnapped three ghosts to make them their ghostly slaves. He also sends his ghostly minions that resembles him. He is shrouded in a black hooded robe, has skeletal hands and has glowing red eyes. Not only he resembles the Ghost from Christmas Future from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but the wraiths from The Haunted Mansion as well.
==Books==
*The Crowley Manor (1990)
*The Crowley Manor vs. The Ghost Hunting Crew (1992)
*A Crowley Christmas Carol (1993)
*The Door Ghosts of Crowley Manor (1995)
*Beware the Hungergeists! (1996)
==Television series adaptation and spin-offs==
*The Ghosts of Crowley Manor (1995–2000)
*The Crowley Manor: 25 Years Later (2015–2018)
==Television movie adaptations==
*The Crowley Manor: A Ghostly Reunion (2014)
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