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.
Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi and SeaWorld Yas Island are running family Halloween events every day through November 1, and each park has a new live show this year. Neither park’s Halloween page lists a haunted house or a scare maze: Warner Bros. World’s Spooktober brings out more than 60 Halloween characters, and SeaWorld’s Spooky Sea-son adds a candy treasure hunt and storytime.
The Mega Metacomet Halloween Thriller, seven decorated houses on Metacomet Road, returns 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’s free, and visitors are 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 running at 131 locations in 32 states this October: 126 Tommy’s Express car washes with a Tunnel of Terror night, and the five locations of The Haunted Car Wash, which has added Greenville, North Carolina, to its four in Southern California. A car is $20 to $30 at Tommy’s Express, and most of its locations run on October 23 and 24.
Spooky World Presents Nightmare New England is open on select nights through Sunday, November 1, at Mel’s Funway Park, and it has a fifth haunt for 2026: Petrified, a walk through total darkness. General admission is $41.99 to $56.99 depending on the night, before any checkout fee, and every ticket is sold online for a set date and time.
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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 are open this October, from Virginia Beach to Roanoke, and Cox Farms Fields of Fear and Milltown Haunt in Northern Virginia
Springfield, MO — Hotel of Terror is in its last season: the haunted house that opened in downtown Springfield in 1978 runs through Halloween night,
Haunted houses in Kansas City, Springfield, and Branson are open through Halloween night, and The Darkness and Creepyworld in the St. Louis area have nights
Los Angeles, CA — The Halloween card drive at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is open, and every card sent earns the hospital $1 from the
Orlando, FL — Jack the Clown, the Halloween Horror Nights icon, is a playable outfit in Fortnite, sold at 1,500 V-Bucks with his jack-in-the-box back
Los Angeles, CA — The Dark Wedding, an immersive theater show where guests choose how much to take part, runs 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 at Warner Bros. Movie World has two new character encounters this October, Clayface and the Deadites of Evil Dead
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 takes 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 has three haunted mazes this year, and two are 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, is open 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 is $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 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 has a new set of Halloween treats as of October 1. Disney’s Animal Kingdom has a Halloween menu of eight treats through
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
