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Hollywood Gothique’s 2010’s Halloween Haunt Odyssey – an annual tour of amateur yard haunts – begins in Burbank, which seems to have become the bleeding, beating heart of Halloween in the San Fernando valley. Within an easily drivable distance are no less than four worthwhile haunts, with several other decorated yards also in the area: Spider-Lights, the Backwoods Maze, Nightmare Junction, and Rotten Apple 907’s Nightmare at the Museum. Click through for details.

We had written the gruesomely good Halloween yard maze known as Nightmare Junction, since it had been out of operation for 2007, 2008, and 2009. To our surprise, during a swing through Burbank on our annual yard haunt odyssey, we found the haunt resurrected – as big, bold, and bloody as ever.
Back when we first [...]

All right, Halloween is finally over, after 31 days of fun during the month of October (well, actually more like thirty-two or thirty-three days, since a few attractions opened during the last days of September). Now, it’s time to decide which haunts were the best in 2005.
For our purposes, we’re not going to try to [...]

This Halloween, per our usual custom, we skipped the professional haunts and went on a long odyssey, searching out amateur attractions put on by people who simply love putting on a show for the sheer fun of it. In a big city like Los Angeles, so much is expensive We hit several old favorites and [...]