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 marched through the East Village on Saturday, October 17, at the 36th annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, and the costume contest went
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
The free LEGO Halloween build at Barnes & Noble ran October 9 to 11 at more than 470 stores, and the next free build, the LEGO Holiday Build, is listed at more than 500 stores for November 13 to 15. By October 13, 89 of those stores had marked it full, and 10 stores still list a Halloween build between October 16 and 24.
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
Blood Prison, the haunted house that takes over the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield each fall, returns for 2026 under a new theme, Apocalypse. It
Sandbox VR’s newest experience, Deadwood Origins, sends groups of up to six into a jungle overrun by the undead. The full-body zombie-survival adventure opened September
FX hosted a free American Horror Story haunted house in Los Angeles on September 18 and 19, ahead of the September 24 premiere of American
St. Louis, MO — The Lemp Mansion, the St. Louis landmark that runs ghost tours and a Halloween Bash out of a former beer baron’s
Los Angeles, CA — Eight guests take a seat at a candlelit table, a host who studies what waits beyond the veil begins to work,
West Berlin, NJ — At Diggerland USA, kids can trick-or-treat, decorate a pumpkin, and drive a full-size construction machine in the same afternoon. The park
Darkness Rising will open for seven nights, from October 23 through November 1, at Samanea New York Mall in Westbury, after the haunted house canceled its 2026 season in Copiague in September. Town of Babylon records released to HAN show a fire marshal issued the Copiague building a red notice sticker on August 24, and that the building has no certificate of occupancy for the change of use.
Davis, CA — Davis is raising a zombie horde for Halloween, and it is free. The 8th annual Zombie Bike Parade Halloweekend Festival takes over
Long Beach, CA — The Queen Mary has opened three new haunted staterooms that guests can book overnight, year-round. Called Paranormal Passage, the rooms are
Miami, FL — The Horrorland opens its 2026 Halloween season on September 10 at Jungle Island, rebuilt with six all-new haunted houses, five scare zones,
Pigeon Forge, TN — Rocky Top Mountain Coaster is running its ride after dark this fall with live actors on the hillside. Zombie Invasion, new
Toverland, the theme park in Sevenum in the southeast of the Netherlands, runs its Halloween season from October 3 through November 8, 2026, and it
Kansas City, MO — Edge of Hell and The Beast are cutting their 2026 calendar from 23 nights to 13, all of them in October,
Two Six Flags parks will not run Fright Fest this year. Six Flags Darien Lake, in Corfu, New York, has confirmed it is dropping the
Halloween Horror Nights opened at Universal Studios Hollywood on September 3, and this year the food is spread across 15 themed stands, carts, and bars
SCARowinds is back at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, on select nights from September 11 through November 1, 2026, presented by Snickers. It is a
Thorpe Park has set out its full Fright Nights 2026 lineup, and leading it is Tenement, a new walk-through the park is billing as its
PortAventura World, the resort near Barcelona that brought Halloween to Spain back in 2000, is running its 2026 season from September 19 to November 15,
The Buford Trail of Terror is back for 2026. After the sale of its original haunting grounds and a two-year hiatus, the fan-built Georgia haunt
Alton Towers is betting that Halloween guests will pay to sit inside the scare instead of walking past it. New for Scarefest 2026, Dine with
Universal has brought back its “Deathly Afraid” lanyard for Halloween Horror Nights 35, and this opening weekend it became one of the most talked-about items
House of Horror Haunted Carnival, the longest-running haunted attraction in South Florida, is marking its 25th year with a new home. The 2026 event moves
The best way to appreciate a Halloween Horror Nights house is to see it in the dark, with a scareactor lunging at you. The second-best
