Canton, OH — The Ohio Christmas Factory returns Nov. 27 for 15 select dates through Dec. 23. New this year are a redesigned Spookytown, inspired
Halloween has some unfinished business, and for those of you looking for something more spooky this holiday season, haunted houses nationwide will open for special
Krampus is the horned, chain-rattling demon of Alpine folklore who travels with St. Nicholas and punishes the naughty children. Krampusnacht is his night, December 5,
Christmas Incarceration, Blood Prison’s Christmas haunted house, returns to the Ohio State Reformatory on December 5, 11 and 12, with tickets from $25. Guests walk through cell blocks decorated for Christmas, inside the prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed, past scare actors playing unhinged inmates and the Warden’s Widow.
Thirty-three haunted houses in 17 states are open on Friday the 13th, November 13, 2026, with slasher nights, blackouts and season finales from Salt Lake City to Long Island. Five of them are open again Saturday, November 14. I checked each listing on the haunt’s website or ticket page on November 10, and the list below runs by state, with hours and ticket links.
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A former supervisor at Valley of Fear, the Bucks County haunted hayride, is charged with strangling and indecently assaulting an employee who was working alone on the attraction’s opening night, September 25, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said. Valley of Fear fired him the next day, and on Wednesday judges ordered him held without bail.
Dead by Daylight: The Immersive Experience, a 45-minute walk-through based on the horror video game, opened Friday, October 30, at the Moreno Valley Museum & ArtSpace. Guests start in a museum of up to 12 of the game’s killers and finish by repairing generators to help survivors escape, with $36.99 tickets on sale for dates through January 3.
A Nightmare Before Christmas pop-up was open at Carne, a Latin live-fire steakhouse at The Collection at RiverPark, through Sunday, Nov. 1, with Jack’s Midnight Margarita, Sally’s Sweet Escape-Tini and Graveyard Fries on a Halloween menu. There was no ticket: A Nightmare at CARNE was regular dining, in a room decorated with ghosts, cobwebs and a Jack Skellington figure.
Derry Halloween, which bills itself as Europe’s largest Halloween festival, marked its 40th anniversary from Wednesday, October 28, through Sunday, November 1, 2026, and on November 5 its site had not posted 2027 dates. The Carnival Parade started at 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 31, with fireworks set for about 8:15 p.m., and both were free, as was the three-night Awakening the Walled City Trail.
Las Vegas, NV — Haunted Harvest, the family Halloween event at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, sold out every member and non-member time slot
Scared by the Sound, the haunted house inside Rye Playland in Rye, New York, finished its 25th season on Saturday, October 31. General admission started at $29, and time slots sold out ahead of time, so the haunt says to buy online.
Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch, the family pumpkin patch at 10100 Jefferson Blvd. in Culver City, ended its 2026 season on Saturday, October 31, after opening daily with admission from $12 on weekdays. This page has this year’s prices, hours and activities for anyone planning next fall.
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.
The Mega Metacomet Halloween Thriller, seven decorated houses on Metacomet Road, returned on Halloween night for its 12th year with 2,000 feet of lighted sidewalk arches and live Thriller dancers from 6 to 8:30 p.m. It was free, and visitors were asked to bring canned or nonperishable food for the Plainville Community Food Pantry.
A Ghost in Your Ear, a horror play the audience hears through binaural headphones, is running at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in the West Village through December 12. It is set in an audiobook recording session where the ghost story an actor is reading starts to haunt the studio, and tickets start at $59.
Haunted car washes are done for 2026, and neither Tommy’s Express nor The Haunted Car Wash has posted 2027 dates. In October 2026 they ran at 131 locations in 32 states: 126 Tommy’s Express car washes with a Tunnel of Terror night, and the five locations of The Haunted Car Wash, which added Greenville, North Carolina, to its four in Southern California.
Spooky World Presents Nightmare New England ended its 35th-anniversary season on Sunday, November 1, at Mel’s Funway Park, and on November 4 its site had not posted 2027 dates. The 2026 season added a fifth haunt, Petrified, a walk through total darkness, and general admission ran $41.99 to $56.99 depending on the night.
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The Horror Make-Up Show at Universal Studios Florida is coming back as Universal Horror Make-Up Show featuring Blumhouse, Universal Orlando Resort announced on October 9. The live show has been closed since May 12, and Universal has not given a reopening date.
Fifteen Virginia haunted attractions ran this October, from Virginia Beach to Roanoke, and Cox Farms Fields of Fear and Milltown Haunt in Northern Virginia run
Springfield, MO — Hotel of Terror finished its last season on Halloween night, 48 years after it opened in downtown Springfield in 1978, and the
Most Missouri haunted houses finished on Halloween night, and The Darkness and Creepyworld in the St. Louis area have nights through November 13 at $34.95
Los Angeles, CA — The 2026 Halloween card drive at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles ran through October 30, and every card sent earned the hospital
Los Angeles, CA — The Dark Wedding, an immersive theater show where guests choose how much to take part, ran three nights over Halloween weekend,
San Francisco, CA — The Black Cat Hotel, the walk-through immersive theater show inside The Palace Theater in San Francisco’s North Beach, is back for
Gold Coast, Australia — Fright Nights Horror Quest, the online game from Fright Nights at Warner Bros. Movie World, turns the backstories of four of
Gold Coast, Australia — Fright Nights 2026 at Warner Bros. Movie World added two character encounters, Clayface and the Deadites of Evil Dead Burn, alongside
Fort Wayne, IN — In 1997, Larry W. Baker put a small Halloween display on his porch on Electric Avenue in Fort Wayne. This Halloween,
Los Angeles, CA — The Boulet Brothers’ Los Angeles Halloween Ball took over all three floors of the Globe Theatre in downtown Los Angeles on
Greensboro, NC — Woods of Terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, with 18 attractions, and new
Riverside, CA — Castle Dark at Castle Park had three haunted mazes in 2026, and two were new: S.O.S. – Sewer of Screams, set in
Salt Lake City, UT — Nightmare on 13th’s new attraction for its 36th season is one you sit down for: 13th Manor is a live
The Queen Mary in Long Beach, Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, and the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem are on the 2026 list of the 25 most haunted historic hotels in America, announced October 5 by Historic Hotels of America, the hotel program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. All 25 are working hotels, and several run ghost tours in October.
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Horror House Nights: Psycho Circus, a circus-themed haunted house with live actors, ran at La Loma Ranch in Haines City, between Orlando and Tampa, on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through November 1. A Spanish crew started the haunt in Spain in 2022 and brought it to the United States last year, and general admission was $19 before fees.
Madame Leota’s Swinging Wake is a 10-minute Haunted Mansion street party at Oogie Boogie Bash, with a parade’s worth of dancers and an original song, and it stops three times along the route. I filmed the whole show on opening night, August 18, and I cried.
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.
Area15’s October 2026 calendar ran from five nights of Edgar Allan Poe theater to ScAREA15: Strange Circus Massive, an 18-and-over party across three venues on Halloween night with tickets from $34. Two of the events were free, and a family rave on Universal Horror Unleashed’s patio started at $16.
Westland, MI — Hush Haunted Attraction in Westland, Michigan, is open on select nights through Saturday, November 7, 2026, with three haunted houses on one
Hong Kong — Hong Kong held its first Halloween Month in 2026, with cosplay street parties in five districts on Saturday, October 17, 24, and
North Hollywood, CA — Mary & Margo’s Halloween Sideshow of Madness, a two-woman comedy about dead performers who need the audience to summon them back
Bloomington, MN — Families looking for Halloween activities had 11 programs to choose from at Mall of America in 2026, and one haunted house. New
St. Helens, Oregon, where Disney Channel filmed Halloweentown, held its Spirit of Halloweentown festival through November 1, and a fifth Halloweentown movie is in early
New York’s 2026 haunted houses run from a 10,000-square-foot haunt in a Tribeca building on Broadway to five haunted houses inside a former Buffalo Kmart,
Yorktown Heights, NY — Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience, a nighttime woodland trail of magical creatures and spell-casting, returns to FDR State Park in
The DroneArt Show: Harry Potter sends 1,200 drones into the night sky in formations timed to music from the films, with a live electric violinist
The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a 90-minute evening where performers bring four of Poe’s stories to life while you drink a cocktail paired with
Monroe, NY — Pure Terror Scream Park, a Hudson Valley haunt about 40 miles from New York City, holds the Guinness World Record for the
New York, NY — Blood Manor, a 10,000-square-foot haunted house in a Tribeca building on Broadway, opened its 2026 season on Friday, October 2, and
