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Date: Halloween Night, 4-7pm
Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The Heritage Square Museum this annual opportunity for children to trick-or-treat among Victorian mansion populated by “residents” in period costume. Children from 1 to 12, accompanied by parents, may come in costume and go door to door for treats.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

We know you’re out there, you prevaricators and procrastinators, wasting the precious days of October until Halloween Night rolls around, when suddenly you realize: This is it, the last chance to visit this year’s Halloween Theme Park Attractions, Halloween Haunted Houses & Hayrides, Halloween Yard Haunts, Community Halloween Haunts, Halloween Haunts for Children, Halloween Parties [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Location: Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Monday, October 31, 4-7pm
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Description: As part of its annual Halloween festivities (which also include Halloween Movie Night and the 8th Annual Halloween & Mourning Tours), Heritage Square Museum provides an opportunity for parents to enjoy Halloween in Los Angeles with [...]

To my surprise, looking over last year’s posts, I find no 2009 edition of Hollywood Gothique’s annual Halloween Haunt Awards. Although memories fails me here, I believe this decision was based upon the fact that any post-Halloween round-up of events and attractions in Los Angeles would have been somewhat redundant with my “Must See Halloween [...]

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.

Planning your Halloween Weekend? Wondering What to do with these final days of October? Looking for something new and different? With the opening of the Theatre 68 Haunted House this past Friday, all of Los Angeles’s professional Halloween haunts are in full swing, leaving the Halloween yard haunts to dominate the concluding weekend of October, along with various horror movie screenings. Here is a rundown of Halloween events and attractions opening around Los Angeles this weekend.

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
Date: Halloween (October 31), 4-7:30pm
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Description: Bring your kids for more treats on Halloween inside the safe confines of the museum grounds. Children 1 to 12 years of age, with parent accompaniment, may come in costume and receive sweet treats from our costumed interpreters [...]