Much of the American vintage-Halloween look, the grinning die-cut jack-o’-lantern, the arch-backed black cat, the honeycomb tissue witch crossing a moon, was drawn for one
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
Williamsburg, VA — Busch Gardens Williamsburg runs Howl-O-Scream on select nights from September 11 through November 1, 2026, and unlike the Orlando, Tampa, and San
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.
Buc-ee’s has its 2026 Halloween line on shelves. It is called Quick Bites Spooky Nights, it runs 13 items, and Buc-ee is a vampire this
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld has announced the two haunts for its 30th Season of Screams: Curse of the Collector and Beyond Oblivion: Legacy of
Pottery Barn’s 2026 Halloween collection is online. Unlike Grandin Road and At Home, Pottery Barn’s Halloween is tabletop and entertaining: dinnerware, lit ghosts, and terracotta
Target lists 73 Michael Myers items for Halloween 2026. The cheapest is a $13.08 mask. The most expensive Michael Myers product of the season is
IT opens on Cosm’s 87-foot LED domes on August 28, playing Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta. It is the first horror title Cosm has programmed,
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. It is the first haunted house built around Osbourne’s solo career, and it runs at both of Universal’s United States Halloween Horror Nights events.
Hong Kong — Jackson Wang, the acclaimed rapper, singer, and songwriter, is building an original haunted house at Ocean Park Halloween Fest 2026, which runs
New Hampshire has 7.86 Spirit Halloween stores per million residents, more than any other state in America. California, which has the most stores of anywhere
Spirit Halloween’s locator lists 1,587 stores for 2026: 1,497 across all 50 U.S. states and 90 across 10 Canadian provinces. Nearly all were open by
Spirit Halloween is opening 85 stores this season in buildings that used to be Party City, the party-goods chain that liquidated last year. It is
Funko’s stitched-up Coraline Pop is on sale now for $14.99, and so are the Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, and Wednesday figures from the same Patchwork set. All four can be ordered at Funko.com, and Amazon sells three of them.
Stone Mountain, GA — Netherworld runs 35 nights for its 30th Season of Screams, which opened Friday, September 18 and closes Saturday, November 7, 2026.
Federal Way, WA — 2026 is the final season of Fright Fest at Wild Waves Theme & Water Park because the park is closing for
Johanna Parker’s new Halloween ceramics are in stores now, and the collection is spread across multiple stores. The 2026 collection spans three dozen new designs,
Grandin Road released its Halloween Haven 2026 collection online, with some items already showing a low stock warning. Unlike Home Depot and At Home, Grandin
The most expensive animatronic in Halloween retail this year is HalloweenCostumes.com’s 13.75-foot Lord of the Rings Balrog, at $24,999.99. The most expensive piece in Distortions
The Halloween bucket hunt has been the retail story of the month, and it is no longer a one-store chase. Home Depot’s $2.98 printed bucket
Update, August 3, 2026: Hershey has published its own State of the Season report reaching the same conclusions from separate data. Our full coverage of
Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry hit shelves nationwide in late July, marking the trio’s 55th anniversary. General Mills is running the Jim Henson
Mondo’s Over the Garden Wall Chapter 2 Figure Set is sold out. The $120 standard set, which brings the Pottsfield Pumpkin People from Hard Times
LEGO has approved a Universal Monsters set, and it comes with six monster minifigures: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wolf Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The
LEGO’s Halloween 2026 sets are out, including a $29.99 jack-o’-lantern that lights up when you press its stem and a $19.99 skull candle with swappable
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
Your dog can be Art the Clown this year. That is the single most useful thing to know about the 2026 pet costume aisle, and
Lemax’s Spooky Town village line has eight pieces for 2026 that you can only buy at Michaels, and they run from a $59.99 table accent
At Home has launched its biggest Halloween assortment ever: more than 1,000 items across five collections, all available now online and at all 228 stores
Monster High’s Michael Myers doll is sold out at Mattel Creations, and sealed ones start at about $118 on eBay, $48 over its $70 price. Two Skullector drops are left this year, both $70: Oogie Boogie goes on sale to Fang Club members on October 29 and to everyone on October 30, and Krampus follows on December 3 and 4.
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
The bucket hunt is on again. Home Depot’s $2.98 Halloween-print bucket – the 2-gallon orange utility bucket wrapped in ghosts, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, and spiders –
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
Lenox has released a Halloween version of its Spice Village collection: the Spice Village 6-Piece Halloween Set, six porcelain spice jars styled as haunted Victorian
Spirit Halloween is staffing up for its 2026 season, with more than 52,000 seasonal positions across 1,500+ stores in the U.S. and Canada, what the
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
Every major Halloween retailer has now revealed its 2026 animatronics lineup, and this is the largest, wildest, most licensed-IP-heavy class in years. There’s a 14-foot
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
The short answer: yes, Spirit Halloween is open. Nearly all of the stores on Spirit’s locator had opened for 2026 by September 23, the last
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
Target’s 2026 Halloween drop is live on Target.com, most of it under the Hyde & EEK! Boutique label, and part of the broader Summerween wave.
