Atticus Thorn

"No more of this confusing life, afterlife, afterdeath nonsense! I'm afraid from now on, it's just death, death, and more death! Bwahahaha!"

- Atticus Thorn

Atticus Thorn is the main antagonist of 2003 The Haunted Mansion videogame which is based on the Disneyworld ride attraction and the movie of the same name. He is the leader of an evil secret society known as the Order of Shadows, an ancient cult obessed with destroying all that is good and just in the world.

History
In this version of the Haunted Mansion, it is he who has made the mansion haunted by inviting evil spirits, giants spiders, banshes, etc. His main purpose is to wipe out the benevolent forces in the world. Atticus Thorn has been alive for many centuries which would either make him an immortal or undead. He has imprisoned Madame Leota and the other ghosts in the mansion as part of his twisted conquest of the afterlife. In the end Thorn is defeated by Zeke Holloway by the magical Beacon of Light.

The Tome of Shadows
There is an ancient book called the Tome of Shadows

Tome of Shadows Volume I Page 734

Years have passed since our defeat. But we do not sleep yet, and the plaque has proven quite effective at reducing the Brotherhood's numbers. Folly it was to believe we were no longer a threat and to lower their defenses. For, the shadows crawl eastward from the setting sun, so too does the reach of the order-extending to encircle the globe.

A.Thorn Grand Master The Order of Shadows October 31st, 1349 A.D.

Trivia

 * Atticus_Thorn.jpg painting portrait that is thought to be a picture of Atticus THorm himself, look strikingly similar to the image of the mansion's evil butler Ramsley.