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,
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
Crawley, England — Tulleys Farm’s Pumpkin Festival ran from September 19 through October 31, 2026, with a new area called the Pumpkin Valley built for
Hellbilly Hollow, the horror film shot at the haunted attraction of the same name in Vincent, Alabama, opened in select U.S. theaters on September 25, came out on DVD on October 27, and also streams on demand. 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
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld runs 35 nights for its 30th Season of Screams, which opened Friday, September 18 and closes Saturday, November 7, 2026.
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, PA — ScareHouse came back in October 2026 after two seasons dark, without a haunted house. With The Plaza at North Shore, it ran
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
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
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
Redlands, CA — After 45 years as a pumpkin farm, Live Oak Canyon in Redlands opened its first haunted maze, The Hollow, in October 2026.
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
Orlando’s 2026 Halloween season is over, and on November 4 none of the area’s theme park Halloween events had posted 2027 dates. Disney says all
Plant City, FL — Sir Henry’s Haunted Trail, at exit 22 of I-4 about an hour from Orlando and half an hour from Tampa, ran
The best haunted houses in America share one mark of distinction: Top Haunt certification from the Haunted Attraction Association. It is the closest thing the
Midsummer Scream 2027 runs August 6 to 8 at the Anaheim Convention Center, a move from Long Beach that the organizers announced at the 2026
Long Beach, CA — Update, August 11, 2026: the panel has taken place. See our recap of the Scream 30th anniversary reunion, where Paramount announced
Bay Area haunted houses are done for 2026, and none of the haunts below had posted 2027 dates on November 4. The 2026 season ran
San Diego’s 2026 Halloween season ran from mid-September through November 1, with SeaWorld’s Howl-O-Scream and the Haunted Trail of Balboa Park, with LEGOLAND covering the
Los Angeles’s 2026 Halloween events have ended, and Delusion: Den of the Mosquito played its last 2026 show on November 8. Dead by Daylight: The
California’s 2026 Halloween events have ended, and Delusion: Den of the Mosquito played its last 2026 show on November 8. Dead by Daylight: The Immersive
San Diego, CA — The Haunted Trail of Balboa Park ran its 27th year at Marston Point on select nights from September 25 through November
SLASHED: Return to Hellville turns you loose inside a 1980s slasher movie. Terror Vault’s 2026 production is a fully immersive, walk-through haunt built as a
Anaheim, CA — Wicked Lit returns for its first season since 2017 with 10 performances from October 29 through November 2, 2026 at a new
Pleasanton, CA — Pirates of Emerson is back at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on select nights through November 1, 2026 for its 36th season. The
Festival Fright Nights is over for 2026, and no 2027 dates are out: its site thanks guests for the 2026 season and takes sign-ups for
Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride hasn’t announced 2027 dates, and its site thanks guests for the 2026 season and takes sign-ups
The Haunted Car Wash, the drive-through haunt staged inside working car washes, is done for 2026, and its site has not posted 2027 dates. Its
Mountville, PA — Field of Screams, the Lancaster County haunted attraction that has terrified more than a million and a half guests over three decades,
La Cañada Flintridge, CA — Carved, the nighttime jack-o’-lantern and light installation at Descanso Gardens in the Los Angeles area, is open for its 2026
Cannibal Creek, Black Casket Productions’ new backwoods haunt about a welcoming family with a dark secret, opened Friday, Oct. 2, in Yucaipa. It runs 19
Long Beach, CA — The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, the Halloween event aboard the retired ocean liner in Long Beach, hasn’t announced 2027 dates, and
Rancho Cordova, CA — Heartstoppers Haunts, the Sacramento-area haunted attraction in Rancho Cordova, ran its 18th season on 13 nights from October 2 through Sunday,
Europe’s most-awarded Halloween attraction says it was offered “an opportunity abroad” after a four-year search for a permanent Dublin home hit a dead end. Dublin,
Knoxville, TN — FrightWorks, the East Tennessee haunted attraction operating since 1999, did not open for the 2026 Halloween season. Its site says the attraction
Buffalo, NY — The Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park is turning historic naval vessels and the city’s waterfront into three themed scarescapes
Branson, MO — Field of Screams Branson, the indoor haunted attraction inside Ballparks of America, runs 18 nights in October, from October 2 through Halloween,
New from the Nocturne: see Frankenstein: Resurrection, the theatre’s original Frankenstein musical. Glendale, CA — The Nocturne Theatre is premiering The Eaves, an original paranormal
Universal Studios Hollywood’s Universal Fan Fest Nights 2026 food lineup serves up two Scooby-Doo items and a Universal Monsters-themed hot dog. The event is adding a Dining Pass for the first time, borrowing from the Halloween Horror Nights playbook.
Nightmare Wharf ran its first season at the Buffalo Naval Park on 17 select nights from Friday, October 2, through November 1, 2026, and part of it was inside a real Navy warship. Its haunted house, Project Blackwater, ran through the compartments of the USS Little Rock, where a Cold War experiment has gone wrong. General admission ran from $29.99 on opening weekend to $64.99 on Halloween night.
Triotech, Merlin Entertainments, and Sony Pictures Entertainment have announced a new interactive Jumanji experience built on Triotech’s XD Dark Ride platform, debuting at four Madame Tussauds locations in July 2026.
The installations are planned for Madame Tussauds locations in New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas, and Sydney, all operated by Merlin Entertainments. The Jumanji content marks the first globally recognized entertainment IP introduced to the XD Dark Ride platform.
Long Beach, CA — Passes are now on sale for Midsummer Scream 2026, which returns to the Long Beach Convention Center August 7-9. Single-Day Passes
Los Angeles, CA — Tickets are now available for Spooky Swap Meet VI, returning to Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles from April 24-26 with
Valentine’s Day Haunted Houses & Haunted Attractions Across the USA (2026 Guide) Looking for a thrilling way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year? Whether you
Miami, Fla. (Feb. 12–15, 2026) — Horrorland Miami has announced Love Kills, a Valentine’s themed haunted attraction scheduled to operate for four nights only, February
Kelso, Wash. (Feb. 13–14, 2026) — Cinema of Horrors will once again offer a Valentine’s Day weekend event with Hearts of Horror, a limited-run blackout
Update, November 2026: Universal Fan Fest Nights returns on select nights from April 16 to May 16, 2027. My Universal Fan Fest Nights 2027 guide
Long Beach, CA — Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group, producers of The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor, have announced Dark Masquerade, a new limited-run immersive experience debuting
