Choose Your Own Adventure #5 was originally titled The Mystery of Chimney Rock but was retitled in later editions as The Curse of the Haunted Mansion. A brief search online did not reveal the reason for this, but I'm assuming that it had something to do with a conflict with Chimney Rock State Park.

After the depressing letdown that was Space and Beyond (Choose Your Own Adventure #4), this book was a joy to read. Not only was the story consistent throughout the different narrative branches and grounded in its own logic, but this is the first entry in the series in which the story branches overlap, creating a more complex story tree and offering more alternatives beyond the number of available pages. While some may see this as a 'cheat', I think that this restores some of the inventiveness and creativity that felt lacking in the previous book. ( )

Choose Your Own Adventure #5 was originally titled The Mystery of Chimney Rock but was retitled in later editions as The Curse of the Haunted Mansion. A brief search online did not reveal the reason for this, but I'm assuming that it had something to do with a conflict with Chimney Rock State Park.

After the depressing letdown that was Space and Beyond (Choose Your Own Adventure #4), this book was a joy to read. Not only was the story consistent throughout the different narrative branches and grounded in its own logic, but this is the first entry in the series in which the story branches overlap, creating a more complex story tree and offering more alternatives beyond the number of available pages. While some may see this as a 'cheat', I think that this restores some of the inventiveness and creativity that felt lacking in the previous book. ( )