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 calendar runs 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 are free, and a family rave on Universal Horror Unleashed’s patio starts 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 is holding its first Halloween Month, with cosplay street parties in five districts on Saturday, October 17, 24, and 31,
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 have 11 programs to choose from at Mall of America this year, and one haunted house. New
St. Helens, Oregon, where Disney Channel filmed Halloweentown, is running its Spirit of Halloweentown festival every weekend through November 1, and three of the movie’s
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
Rust, Germany — Europa-Park, Germany’s largest theme park, is celebrating Halloween with separate daytime and nighttime events. During the day, through November 1, the park
More than 120 Southern California homes are opening as Halloween attractions this October, from skeletons on the front lawn to backyard mazes with live scare
Beetle House LA, the every-day-is-Halloween bar and restaurant that announced last year it was closing its Hollywood Boulevard home, is back for one more spooky
Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles has four Halloween events this October, and two of them are already sold out. Still on sale: Street Food
Walt Disney World is launching a new set of Halloween treats on October 1. Disney’s Animal Kingdom starts its Halloween menu that day with eight
A vintage store in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has built a walk-through Beetlejuice movie set, from the Afterlife waiting room to a sandworm bursting out of
Enchanted Parks is running Halloween at six parks this fall, from ValleyScare at Valleyfair to Diggerfest at Diggerland USA, and four of them pair a
Worlds of Fun Halloween Haunt runs select Fridays and Saturdays through October 31 in Kansas City, plus Sunday, October 25, with six haunted mazes, four
ValleyScare runs Friday and Saturday nights through October 31 at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota, with five haunted mazes, four scare zones, and six shows. This
Haunted Soiree, the two-hour Halloween party with drinks and immersive theatre at the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale, takes on true crime for 2026. Its new
Hersheypark is bringing one of its Dark Nights haunted houses into Christmas. The Estate of Evil, a 13-room mansion whose staff killed off every previous
Fall is officially here, and I’m giving you permission to enjoy it. I’ve been off my feet this week recovering from a gout attack, and
Cinema of Horrors opened its 10th season on Friday, September 25, in Kelso, Washington, with two new haunted houses built inside a former movie theater:
Six Flags Magic Mountain added 11 limited-time dishes for Fright Fest this year, from Cajun frog legs to a Worms in Dirt funnel cake, and
At Clarabelle’s Enchanted Halloween Dinner, Clarabelle Cow and her friends come to your table in fall outfits while you eat from the buffet at Storytellers
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
Costumed dogs march through the East Village again on Saturday, October 17, at the 36th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. Registration to march opened
Reign of Terror Haunted House in Thousand Oaks opened its 2026 season on September 25, adding two new walk-through sections, Backwoods and The Blue Bayou
Fuzzy’s Taco Shop has brought back its Halloween “Draco” menu for 2026, and this year it adds a new item: the Draco’rrito. The seasonal lineup
The house where Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother were killed in 1892 still stands at 230 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, and it is
Frightworld packs five haunted houses under one roof inside a former North Buffalo Kmart, and for its 2026 season it has built a new one.
Urban Death Tour of Terror “Ultra” walks guests through a dark maze, into a theatre for a live show of wordless horror vignettes, and back
The beauty of Halloween is its duality: it has traditions, but it’s also the only holiday that encourages novelty. SeaWorld Orlando’s Just One More Chapter
Woods of Terror, the haunted attraction in Greensboro, North Carolina, is mourning a member of its family. Laurie, whom the attraction called “a very special
Barnes & Noble is giving away a free LEGO Halloween build at more than 470 of its stores the weekend of October 9 to 11,
The Great Big BOO, Gilroy Gardens’ family Halloween event, returns Sept. 25 – Nov. 1, 2026, turning the theme park into an after-dark world of
Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train, a long-running family Halloween event in the North Carolina mountains, returned Friday, September 25, and runs Friday and Saturday nights through
Erebus Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan, opened its 2026 season on September 18 with a new attraction, Primordium, that tells the origin of the time-travel
Shocktober Fest, the Halloween attraction that started as a single haunted house on a West Sussex farm in 1996, turns 30 this year, and it
Terror on the Coast, a 40,000-square-foot haunted attraction in Gulfport, opened its 2026 season September 18 and runs select nights through October 31. The Mississippi
The Haunted Attraction Association (HAA), the only official trade association for the haunted attraction industry, has certified a record 74 haunted attractions across the United
Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Georgia adds two new haunted mazes for 2026: Infestation, a condemned home overrun by spiders and mutant vermin, and
Six Flags Fiesta Texas builds its 30th Fright Fest around a new The Conjuring Universe maze in 2026, part of a six-maze lineup that also
Fright Fest at Six Flags Great America returns for 2026, its 50th anniversary year, with five haunted mazes, two of them new: Blair Witch: No
Fright Fest at Six Flags Great Adventure returns for 2026 with nine haunted mazes, four of them new, including JASON: Blood Reign, the first Friday
SeaWorld San Antonio’s Howl-O-Scream marks its 25th year in 2026 with three all-new haunted houses, including one based on the I Know What You Did
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay’s Howl-O-Scream returns for 2026 with six haunted houses, an all-new Anaconda maze, and the return of its fan-favorite show Fiends. The
