What is This Haze, And Why is it Purple?

Things are hazy lately at the Black Mansion, and not in a conventional way. The haze has a strange purple and glimmering quality that suggests awful origins. What magic is afoot? There have been rumblings that suggest there is a plot in the making to remove us from West Texas, perhaps even as far as back to Walla Walla. Who can say in these dire times? A certain The Wicked Witch of West Texas would certainly love to be rid of this particular cramp in her style...