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Dates: October 27 & 28, noon to 4pm
Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The Heritage Square Museum presents the 9th Annual Halloween and Mourning Tours. This two-day event, which runs from noon to 4pm both days, is great for the whole family, offering an opportunity to learn about [...]

strong>WICKED LIT 2012 HALLOWEEN PLAYS: Set in and around an actual mausoleum, Wicked Lit’s productions combine aspects of a play and a tour. The audience follows the cast down marble corridors or through a tombstone-festooned cemetery. This year’s trilogy of terror includes (all for one price of admission) three short dramas based on classic horror [...]

I just wanted to take a moment to offer a brief, belated review of this year’s Halloween & Mourning Tour at the Heritage Square Museum this weekend. Heritage Square, which preserves Victorian mansions built in Los Angeles near the turn of the previous century, has offered this self-guided tour every Halloween for the past eight [...]

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 [...]

With the Halloween weekend upon us, I have been busy updating the Hollywood Gothique website, making sure all the information you need is at your fingertips. Much of this is simple re-organization, but there is some new information, too.

The rather vaguely titled “Other Halloween Haunts” page has morphed into Halloween Parties & Street Fairs, which you can access here. The previous version of the page was a bit of a jumble, including harvest festivals, plays, and other activities more family-friendly, which didn’t sit well on a page mostly occupied by adult parties.

One of the highlights of the Heritage Square Museum’s Halloween and Mourning Tours this weekend was a display of “spirit photography” in the Perry Mansion, performed by Mario Corral, Jordan Byrne, and Donna Anderson. Although I am no expert on the subject, I did attend an exhibition of spirit photography a few years ago (”Immaterial [...]

Not every Halloween event in Los Angeles needs to be a night-time fright-fest; some can be daylight excursions with educational value. Case in point: this past weekend, the Heritage Square Museum presented their 7th annual Halloween and Mourning Tours. Heritage Square is a small parcel of land off the Pasadena Freeway, not far south of [...]

Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: October 23-24, noon to 4pm
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Description: Heritage Square Museum invites you to join them for their 7th annual Halloween and Mourning Tours. Visitors to the museum’s Victorian-era houses will find themselves immersed in the traditions surrounding death and mourning as they were practiced [...]