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The Los Angeles Halloween season begins in earnest tomorrow, with the opening of the Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Haunt and Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Before we begin to savor the delightfully dreary ambiance of these and other Halloween events in Los Angeles, we should cast our mournful eyes back through the hazy clouds of time and take a moment to to pay tribute to those haunted attractions that have gone to the grave forever, never again to resurrect each October for annual enjoyment of all things macabre. Click through to read our list of the Los Angeles Halloween attractions we mourn the most deeply.

Most of you are probably sick of Halloween and looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, before bidding adieu to the October season, some of you are no doubt wondering: What were the best Halloween haunts this year?
Well, I’m here to tell you. But first, the ground rules: in order to make each year’s list [...]

As you don your Halloween costumes and decide which revels to enjoy on this last night of the Halloween season, make a special note of this: tonight is the final night that the wonderful Turbidite Manor will be in Los Angeles.
This haunt – a sort of electronically-guided museum tour of a haunted mansion – is [...]

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 [...]

Over the course of the past fifteen years, Spooky House has managed to establish itself as a Halloween tradition in the valley: an excellent, elaborate haunt that’s a cut above the competition because it’s not just made up of black painted flats aligned into corridors beneath a tent. For the last few years, the haunted [...]