More than 120 Southern California homes opened as Halloween attractions in October 2026, 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
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 ran Halloween at six parks in fall 2026, from ValleyScare at Valleyfair to Diggerfest at Diggerland USA, which runs weekends through November 15,
Glendale, CA — Haunted Soiree, the two-hour Halloween party with drinks and immersive theatre at the Nocturne Theatre in Glendale, took on true crime for
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:
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
Los Angeles, CA — Haunted Little Tokyo, the Halloween season put on by the Little Tokyo neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles, held its 10th block
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
Thousand Oaks, CA — Reign of Terror Haunted House in Thousand Oaks ran its 2026 season on 18 nights from September 25 into early November,
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” walked 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.
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
Blowing Rock, NC — Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train, a long-running family Halloween event in the North Carolina mountains, ran Friday and Saturday nights from September
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
Mansfield, OH — Blood Prison, the haunted house that takes over the Ohio State Reformatory each fall, ended its 2026 season, Apocalypse, on November 1,
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 returns to Samanea New York Mall in Westbury for one night, Friday, November 13, 2026, with Survival Night, where every guest enters with three lives and the actors hunt them through the attraction. Tickets are $25, according to the haunt’s site. Darkness Rising ran seven nights at the mall, from October 23 through November 1, 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’s 2026 Halloween season at Jungle Island ran select nights from September 10 through November 1, rebuilt with six all-new haunted
Pigeon Forge, TN — Rocky Top Mountain Coaster is running its ride after dark this fall with live actors on the hillside. Zombie Invasion, new
Kansas City, MO — Edge of Hell and The Beast are cutting their 2026 calendar from 23 nights to 13, all of them in October,
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
Miami, FL — House of Horror Haunted Carnival marked its 25th year in 2026 with a new home at Tropical Park in Miami, from Thursday,
Palos Verdes, CA — Magic of the Jack O’Lanterns ended its 2026 season at South Coast Botanic Garden on November 1, and on November 4
Camelback Resort is giving its summer waterpark a very different second season. The Pocono Mountains destination is launching a new Halloween haunt, The Curse of
Nocturne Theatre is giving Frankenstein a musical sequel, and this time it is Victor Frankenstein himself, not his Monster, who is brought back from the
The Scare Factor, the haunted house review directory that has sent trained review teams into haunts for more than 20 years, has launched Haunt Advisor,
Leavesden, England — Nox, the after-hours Halloween event at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, returned for three nights, October 29, 30 and 31, 2026, with
Santa Ana, CA — Creep It Real OC, billed by its organizers as Orange County’s largest Halloween festival, ran its seventh year Friday through Sunday,
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL — A Petrified Forest opened its 19th haunt season on Oct. 2 with “Chaos Reigns,” a new theme built around five new
Jason Universe has since gone international. See our coverage of the Jason Universe haunted house at Movie Park Germany. Jason Voorhees is getting his own
Evil Intentions Haunted House will not open for the 2026 season. The haunt’s planned move back to Elgin, Illinois has fallen through over building-permit issues,
San Jose, CA — Festival Fright Nights at the Winchester Mystery House dropped the linear, one-way haunted-house route it ran in 2025 for an open
Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride added a new maze in 2026 that turned guests into a doomed 1980s rock band, brought
Long Beach, CA — The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is entering its 13th year with 13 icons roaming the ship, and it plans to kill
