West Mifflin, PA — Kennywood’s Phantom Fall Fest returns on select dates from September 12 through November 1, 2026. By day the event stays family-friendly,
San Jose, CA — Festival Fright Nights at the Winchester Mystery House is dropping the linear, one-way haunted-house route it ran last year for an
Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride is adding a new maze that turns guests into a doomed 1980s rock band, bringing back
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
Long Beach, CA — Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood is hiding a character somewhere in the park this year, and finding her is part of the
Long Beach, CA — Slash wrote the music for a new Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood haunted house, and its villain sings. At Universal’s Midsummer Scream
Long Beach, CA — Art the Clown is taking over the Terror Tram. At the Halloween Horror Nights panel at Midsummer Scream, creative director John
Lake Buena Vista, FL — Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar, the Indiana Jones-themed bar at Disney Springs, brings its Halloween overlay back on August 11 with
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, the restaurant at the center of the Five Nights at Freddy’s games, is being built for real. American Dream in East Rutherford,
Six Flags has confirmed the full details of its Diablo haunted maze. DIABLO: The Infernal Path, a new maze based on Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo video
Orlando, FL — HamiKuma, the gut-spilling teddy bear Universal Studios Japan created for Halloween Horror Nights in 2021, is at every Universal Studios park this
Universal City, CA — Universal Studios Hollywood has announced Killer Klowns from Outer Space as a haunted house for Halloween Horror Nights 2026, the seventh
Every 2026 date of Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is sold out, according to Disney, and the party’s food and merchandise are sold only to guests
Disneyland’s 2026 Halloween menu covers dozens of new treats, snacks, and drinks across Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney, and the resort hotels. Most
Sandusky, OH — Cedar Point has posted the full HalloWeekends 2026 lineup. The season runs select days and nights from September 17 through November 1,
Six Flags St. Louis is now Mid America Adventure, and its Fright Fest 2026 runs select nights from September 12 through November 1 in Eureka,
Universal City, CA — The Purge: Dangerous Waters is returning to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood for 2026, its fourth consecutive year. Universal
West Sussex, UK — Tulleys Farm opened its Pumpkin Festival on September 19 and runs it through October 31, 2026, with a new area called
Update, August 3: the Killarney Diner: Condemned house mentioned below will not run this year after all. Its building is being converted for Return to
“I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch” opens September 11 at SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld San Diego and SeaWorld San Antonio. United Parks
Hellbilly Hollow, the horror film shot at the haunted attraction of the same name in Vincent, Alabama, opened in select U.S. theaters on Friday, September 25. The haunt’s 2026 season is underway and runs through November 2.
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld has announced the two haunts for its 30th Season of Screams: Curse of the Collector and Beyond Oblivion: Legacy of
Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness opened August 28 at Universal Orlando Resort and September 3 at Universal Studios Hollywood, running through November 1 at both.
Hong Kong — Jackson Wang, the acclaimed rapper, singer, and songwriter, is building an original haunted house at Ocean Park Halloween Fest 2026, which runs
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld runs 35 nights for its 30th Season of Screams, opening Friday, September 18 and closing Saturday, November 7, 2026. The
Federal Way, WA — 2026 is the final season of Fright Fest at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park because the park is closing for
Dade City, Fla. — SCREAM-A-GEDDON opens its 12th season on Saturday, August 29, one day after Halloween Horror Nights, and it is arriving with the
Los Angeles — Delusion’s 2026 show, Den of the Mosquito, will run at the Beckett Mansion in West Adams. That is the building where Jon
Pittsburgh — One of the most acclaimed haunted attractions in the country is returning this October after two seasons dark, and the thing it is
Troy, N.Y. — Field of Horrors opened its 2026 season on September 26, nine weeks after a July 20 fire destroyed three of its haunted
Universal Orlando announced Downtown Clowntown, the fourth and final scare zone for Halloween Horror Nights 35, and it does something HHN almost never does: it
What’s this?! Jack Skellington and Halloween Town are coming to Denver as full-scale ice sculptures this Christmas season. Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Universal Studios Hollywood announced Dead, Deader, Deadest on July 23, the first original, non-IP haunted house revealed for Halloween Horror Nights 2026 on the West
Are we seeing a return to higher-quality, low-throughput horror experiences at theme parks? Planning the trip? See what USJ is serving this year in our
Freakling Bros. Horror Shows, the Las Vegas haunt that has run for more than 31 years and operates Nevada’s only R-rated haunted attraction, will not
Dead Coconut Club – Harvest is open as the 2026 Halloween overlay of Universal CityWalk’s Red Coconut Club, tied to Halloween Horror Nights 35. The
Universal Orlando has confirmed two returning street experiences for Halloween Horror Nights 35 this fall: Mel’s Die-In: Zombies and Club Horror, both of which take
Halloween Horror Nights is bringing Fortnite, the most-played console game in the United States, into the physical event. Universal is opening a Fortnitemares scare zone
Halloween Horror Nights runs 49 nights at Universal Orlando and 42 at Universal Studios Hollywood in 2026, and the two events share houses but not
Texas runs one of the country’s deepest haunt seasons. Five Texas haunts hold current Haunted Attraction Association Top Haunt certification, three theme parks run separately
Louisville, KY — Kentucky Kingdom is the new home of Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, the illuminated hand-carved-pumpkin trail that is running its 14th year at
LEGOLAND is adding a new attraction called Brick or Treat Street at both LEGOLAND California and LEGOLAND Florida for the 2026 Halloween season, an interactive
Universal has announced Evil Dead Burn haunted houses at both of its United States Halloween Horror Nights events this fall, tied to New Line Cinema’s
Orlando, FL — Universal Orlando has put its Halloween Horror Nights 35 multi-night Frequent Fear passes on sale, and it has added a brand-new 5-House
Redlands, CA — After 45 years running Southern California’s largest pumpkin patch, Live Oak Canyon in Redlands is opening its first-ever haunted maze this October.
Five of Disney’s six resorts are running Halloween now. Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris are in
Shanghai Disney Resort has announced its 2026 Halloween, running October 4 through November 1 as part of the resort’s 10th Birthday celebration. Unlike the hard-ticket
Disney Halloween Time is back at Hong Kong Disneyland, and 2026 is largely a return of what worked last year. The villain-themed season, “Party Like
Disneyland Paris’s Disney Halloween Festival is running now, from September 26 through November 1, 2026, an earlier start than last season. The park’s pitch sets
Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania enters its 34th season as one of the biggest names in American haunting, an HAA-certified Iconic Top Haunt that
Pennhurst Asylum is the most-searched haunt on our Top Haunts list, and no haunt in America has a setting like it. The HAA-certified Iconic Top
