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Dates: October 21 through November 6

Location: Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery, 2300 N. Marengo Avenue, Altadena – California

Description: Wicked Lit returns with another Halloween’s worth of horrifying theatrical productions based on classic literature by authors Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, M.R. James, and Mark Twain. This year,for the first time, Wicked lit offers 6 adaptations: “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Unnameable,” and “The Chimes.” Production B offers three new ghastly tales: “The Body Snatcher,” “Casting the Runes,” and “A Ghost Story.”

Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Saturday, October 22
Time: Gates open at 7:30pm; screening starts at dusk.
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Description: As part of its annual celebration of the spooky season, Heritage Square Museum presents a Halloween movie night, featuring the 1941 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale. Spencer Tracy starts [...]

[ October 29, 2011; 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Location: Heritage Square Museum 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
Dates & Hours: Saturday & Sunday, October 29-30, noon to 4pm
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Description: Heritage Square Museum presents its 2011 Halloween & Mourning Tours, which provide an educational and entertaining look at Victorian perspectives on death, funerals, and Spiritualism. Heritage Square consists of preserved mansions, forming [...]

Dates: October 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30
Times: 6 – 8:30 pm
Description: Out of the Box Events presents another series of Halloween scavenger haunts – one of the most unique ways to spend Halloween in Los Angeles. According to their press materials, Los Angeles is the #5 most haunted city in [...]

Location: 724 E. Edgeware Road, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Dates: October 22 and 23
Hours: 4-6:30pm
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Description: In association with the Los Angeles Conservancy, Out of the Box events presents another of their seasonally spooky events. Are you familiar with the “evil of the thriller” house? Perhaps you prefer to be “charmed” by the ghosts [...]

Location: Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108
Date & Hours: October 26, 3-3:35pm
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Description: This afternoon, the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens offers Halloween fun for kids in Los Angeles, with pumpkins, gourds, and ghostly tales! Children from 5 to 6 years old can get into the [...]

Dates: October 22-23, 29-30.
Hours: tours depart at 1, 2, 3 & 4pm
Location: Homestead Museum, 15415 East Don Julian Road, City of Industry, CA
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Description: The Homestead Museum presents its annual Halloween-themed tour, which depicts the change in American attitudes toward death between the 1840s and the 1920s, as examplified by two historic houses, [...]

Dates: October 22 & 29, 5-9pm
Location: Golden Valley High School, 27051 Robert C. Lee Parkway, Santa Clarita, CA 91350
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Description: Much of the cast and crew of the now defunct Heritage Haunt at Heritage Junction have set up a new Halloween haunt this year. Expect to see the talking skeleton fortune teller, the [...]

Dates: October 14-15, 21-22, 28-29
Location: 2901 W. Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92663
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Description: Ten Thirty One Productions – creators of the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, one of our favorite Halloween events in Los Angeles – set sail on a new adventure, a ghostly cruise in Orange County. We’re not talking about a [...]

Location: 5311 Acacia Avenue Garden Grove, CA 92845
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Date & Hours: Halloween night, 7pm to midnight
Price: The Murder Manor haunt is free but donations are encouraged.
Description: Every Halloween, this old Victorian estate transforms into Murder Manor, beckoning guests to travel once again down the haunted hallways, where horrific events from long ago return to life.

Dates: October 19-31
Location: 2218 S Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90018
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Description: 2011 sees a new Halloween event in Los Angeles: DELUSION, a “haunted play” that promises adventurous fright fans an interactive experience unlike traditional haunted house attractions. Although consisting of a walk through a turn-of-the-century mansion, DELUSION offers more than actors in [...]

Location: Mountain View Mausoleum 2300 North Marengo Avenue Altadena, CA 91001
Dates & Hours: Saturdays from 11am to 5pm and Sunday from 11am to 3pm throughout October.
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Description: This year’s annual celebration of Halloween in art features contributions from Rick Baker, William Stout, Stephen Chiodo, Peter Von Sholly, and many, many others. Located within [...]

On Friday, September 23, the 2011 Los Angeles Halloween season officially began, with the opening of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Per tradition, Universal Studios launched their theme park Halloween attraction with the Eyegore Awards, which are handed out to celebrities in the horror genre. This year’s recipients were David Arquette (SCREAM), Jamie [...]

Dates & Hours:

Oct. 8,14,15,21,22,30 from 7pm-10pm
Oct. 28,29,31 7pm-11pm.
For the benefit of young and timid trick-or-treaters, there is a period from 6:30pm-7pm with no scares.

Location: 537 Palm Dr., Brea, CA 92821
Description: Haunt Worx Productions presents Dark Realms: An American Haunt. Although located in a private home, this Halloween event is more in the nature of a community [...]

Location: Westchester Recreation Park, 7000 W. Manchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Dates & Hours: October 28-31, 6-10pm
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Description: For over two decades, during the final days of October, Westchester Recreation Park transforms into a terrifying Halloween event. For 2011, the maze moves outdoors, leaving the indoor facilities behind and hopefully expanded to include even [...]

Dates & Hours: October 7, 14, 21 & 28 at midnight
Location: The Comedy Store, 8433 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles CA 90069
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Description: The Comedy Store on The Sunset Strip resurrects Haunted Midnights, the combination of floor show and flashlight tour, which made its debut last year. In between jokes and entertainment, [...]

Location: The Way of the Shadow Martial Arts Academy 18727 Crenshaw Boulevard Torrance CA 90504
Dates: October 29-31
Hours: 7-10pm on Saturday and Sunday; 6-10pm on Monday, October 31 – the Halloween Fall Festival Block Party
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Description: The spirits of slaughtered ninja rest quietly most of the year, but come each Halloween, they return, seeking [...]

We never made it out to the Tustin Haunt in Tustin, CA, and now it seems we have have missed our chance. Too bad, it looked quite intriguing.
A ghost from the 2008 Tustin Haunt – the last time the haunt offered a walk-through maze
Located behind the Orange Curtain (i.e., in Organge County), this “semi-pro” attraction [...]

We made it out to the Terry Haunt only once, back in 2009, but it was quite an elaborate family affair – a former yard haunt that had expanded beyond the confines of its home, first moving to a recreation center and later (the year we attended) to an abandoned supermarket. The search for locations [...]

Location: The Beacon House, 1003 S. Beacon Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Date & Hours: October 29, 7:30pm to midnight
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Description: This year, Beacon Street House offers another Halloween party at the Barlett Center. For over 20 years, the Beacon House Association of San Pedro produced a Halloween block party, providing a safe way [...]

Dates: October 7-8, 14-15, 21-22, 28-31
Hours: 7-10pm except Saturdays, which are 7-11pm
Location: Janss Marketplace, 197 North Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks, CA
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Description: The Reign of Terror haunted house once more opens its doors to unwary visitors foolish enough to wander inside. This year, the premier Halloween haunt in Thousand Oaks offers not only its [...]

Dates: October 6-9, 13-16, 20-23, 26-31 (subject to change, so check)
Location: 195 Arovista Circle Brea, CA 92821
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Description: After going on hiatus in 2010, the highly regarded Sinister Pointe Haunted Attraction returns for another season of screams. This year, the highly regarded Orange County Halloween haunt promises a horrifying hybrid of THE HILLS [...]

Dates: October 7-9, 13-16, 20-23, 27-31
Location: Griffith Park, Old Zoo, 4730 Crystal Springs Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027
Box Office Hours: 7pm to 10:30pm on Thursdays, Sundays, and Monday October31; 7pm to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays (the ride runs for one hour after the box office closes)
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Description: The Los Angeles Haunted Hayride [...]