Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch, the family pumpkin patch at 10100 Jefferson Blvd. in Culver City, is open daily through Saturday, October 31, with admission from $12 on weekdays. This weekend it adds samples of Ahlgrens bilar, Sweden’s car-shaped candy, from Friday to Sunday, and a Dia de los Muertos celebration on Sunday, October 25.
Lincoln Mill Haunted House is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, inside an 1860 textile mill in Manayunk, with three new rooms, new characters and an all-new Mill Yard this season. General admission is $38 online, and Lincoln Mill’s new Ghost Tours of Manayunk is a $42 walk along the Manayunk Canal that ends at the mill.
Kids’ Halloween movies are split across services this October: Hocus Pocus, Halloweentown, and The Nightmare Before Christmas are on Disney+, Coraline is on Hulu, Casper airs on Freeform, and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is on Apple TV, where it streamed free on October 17 and 18. New this year are a Spidey and the Avengers Halloween special on Disney+ and a second Pumpkinhead movie, free on Tubi from October 9.
Tim Burton’s Labyrinth, a walk-through maze of rooms filled with sets, sculptures of Burton’s characters, and more than 150 of his original sketches, opens November 25 at CREVIA BASE Tokyo and runs through February 21, 2027. It’s the exhibition’s first stop in Asia, and dates are selling out.
The 17th Door is open for its 12th season on select nights through November 1, continuing its prison story, Perpetuum Penitentiary. General admission is $38 to $47 depending on the night, and the Backstage Tour is back, a 30-minute walk through the cast area and control room after the maze.
Westland, MI — Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan, is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, with three haunted houses on one
The 2026 gingerbread house in Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion Holiday is a music box more than 10 feet tall. As its Santa Jack key turns, it
Haunted Little Tokyo is a Halloween season put on by the Little Tokyo neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, with ghost tours, a free family scavenger
Regal Cinemas is putting a horror movie back on the big screen every night this October, from The Shining and The Thing to Halloween and
From Jessica Lange’s return in American Horror Story: 13 to Mike Flanagan’s take on Carrie, the new horror hitting streaming this Halloween is stacked. This
Halloween candy now shows up in stores months early, and 2026 brought some of the biggest brand lineups yet, from a new Kit Kat Witch
The earliest fall item in my 2026 calendar was Wendy’s Apple Crumble Frosty Fusion on August 3, and the Halloween menus followed, from Sonic’s Universal
Halloween season on TV means a wave of animated specials, spooky one-offs, and returning traditions across broadcast and streaming. This guide rounds up the Halloween
Alton Towers turns into one of the UK’s biggest Halloween destinations each autumn, and Scarefest 2026 leads with a brand-new scare maze, Final Exhibit. The
Target has announced its 2026 Halloween assortment. The lineup covers decor, costumes, treats and family activities, with Hyde & EEK! Boutique decor starting at $5
Walt Disney World’s 2026 Halloween popcorn buckets and sippers add up to six designs across the parks, the water parks, and Disney Springs. Two are
West Mifflin, PA — Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest is back on select dates from September 12 through November 1, 2026. By day the event stays
Williamsburg, VA — Busch Gardens Williamsburg runs Howl-O-Scream on select nights from September 11 through November 1, 2026, and unlike the Orlando, Tampa, and San
Spirit Halloween is staffing up for its 2026 season, with more than 52,000 seasonal positions across 1,500+ stores in the U.S. and Canada, what the
Halloween Horror Nights runs 49 nights at Universal Orlando and 42 at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2026, and the two events share houses but not
Texas runs one of the country’s deepest haunt seasons. Five Texas haunts hold current Haunted Attraction Association Top Haunt certification, three theme parks run separately
All six of Disney’s resorts are running Halloween now. Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris are in
Shanghai Disney Resort’s 2026 Halloween runs from October 4 through November 1 as part of the resort’s 10th Birthday celebration. Unlike the hard-ticket Halloween parties
Disney Halloween Time is back at Hong Kong Disneyland, and 2026 is largely a return of what worked last year. The villain-themed season, “Party Like
Disneyland Paris’s Disney Halloween Festival is running now, from September 26 through November 1, 2026, an earlier start than last season. The park’s pitch sets
Three of North Carolina’s best-known haunted attractions run on a single ticket this November. The Legendary Haunt Tour visits Lake Hickory Haunts on Thursday, Woods
Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania enters its 34th season as one of the biggest names in American haunting, an HAA-certified Iconic Top Haunt that
Pennhurst Asylum is the most-searched haunt on our Top Haunts list, and no haunt in America has a setting like it. The HAA-certified Iconic Top
Ten major Halloween events run in and around Orlando each fall: five theme park events with overlapping calendars from early August through November, and five
Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail in Plant City sits at exit 22 of I-4, about an hour from Orlando and half an hour from Tampa, and
Universal Beijing Resort’s autumn Halloween event, branded Scares at Universal (惊彩”环球, Jīng Cǎi Huánqiú), runs from September 4 through November 1, 2026, marking the resort’s
The best haunted houses in America share one mark of distinction: Top Haunt certification from the Haunted Attraction Association. It is the closest thing the
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Japan returns for its 15th anniversary from September 11 through November 8, 2026, running inside the wider Universal Extreme
Fall at Walt Disney World Resort runs from early August through late November 2026, built around Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom, the EPCOT
Midsummer Scream 2027 runs August 6 to 8 at the Anaheim Convention Center, a move from Long Beach that the organizers announced at the 2026
To get a job at a haunted house, apply directly through the haunt’s website or social pages in August or early September, when most haunts
Most haunted houses opened between September 11 and the first weekend of October 2026. Theme park events started much earlier, with Disneyland’s Halloween season beginning
Universal runs Halloween-season horror events at five parks worldwide, four branded Halloween Horror Nights plus Beijing’s Scares at Universal, and 2026 is a landmark year:
The Bay Area’s 2026 Halloween season spans immersive theater in a historic San Francisco mint, the narrative event at the Winchester Mystery House in San
San Diego’s 2026 Halloween season runs from mid-September through November 1, anchored by SeaWorld’s Howl-O-Scream and the Haunted Trail of Balboa Park, with LEGOLAND covering
Los Angeles runs more major Halloween events than any city in the country, with every theme park in the region staging one, plus professional haunts
California’s Halloween season stands out for its variety: every major theme park runs a Halloween event, professional haunts operate from San Diego to Sacramento, and
San Diego, CA — The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park returns to Marston Point for its 27th year on select nights from September 25 through
Pleasanton, CA — Pirates of Emerson is back at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on select nights through November 1, 2026 for its 36th season. The
Festival Fright Nights is open at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, running select nights from Friday, September 18 through Sunday, November 1, 2026.
Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride is open in Griffith Park on select nights through Sunday, November 1, 2026, with the hayride,
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation’s Fright Fest returns for its 34th year in 2026 across the company’s park portfolio. The event runs on select nights at
Valencia, CA — Fright Fest at Six Flags Magic Mountain lets season passholders into its seven scare zones, five shows, and night rides at no
Nationwide — Howl-O-Scream, United Parks & Resorts’ hard-ticket Halloween brand, returned to all five of its US locations for the 2026 season on September 11.
SeaWorld San Diego has revealed the full Howl-O-Scream lineup for 2026, and it is the largest in the event’s history: six haunted houses, eight scare
Southern California — The Haunted Car Wash returns for its sixth season this October, expanding to four Southern California regions. The drive-through Halloween experience turns
