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Cue the scary organ music, for it is time to announce Hollywood Gothique’s annual Halloween Haunt Awards, recognizing the finest achievements for 2012. Which haunts had the spookiest  ghosts, the scariest monsters, the most disgusting gore, the most atmospheric architecture, or the most amazing special effects? Read on to find out – if [...]

It’s the morning after Halloween – but that’s no reason to be mourning. With October 31 having fallen in the middle of the week, a handful of Halloween events in Los Angeles are remaining open through the weekend. So if you feel yourself going through withdrawal pains, consider the following options. (Be careful: some of [...]

Hollywood Gothique was unable to travel to San Jose last Halloween for the debut of Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights; however, our dark doppelganger, the Haunt Mistress from Haunted Bay, recommended it highly, so we marked our calendar for October 2012, knowing that this year, we would make the trip no matter what. Was Fright [...]

We don’t know about you, but Hollywood Gothique’s weekend was well spent: we went up north and visited two entertaining Halloween events in the Bay area: a small but fun local haunt called Sanctuary of Fear, nestled in the cozy community of Brentwood, and the elaborate Winchester Mystery House Fright Nights, a major tourist attraction [...]

Pop quiz, Halloween Hot Shots! What’s better: a haunted house or a Halloween haunt? Are the staged illusions better than the real thing (assuming there is a real thing)? Come to think of it, why choose one or the other when you can have both? The Winchester Mystery House – renowned because of its odd-ball [...]

It may be prohibitively distant for Halloween fans in Los Angeles; nevertheless, Hollywood Gothique wants to alert its readers that the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is resurrecting Fright Nights for Halloween 2012. The year-round tourist destination – whose labyrinthine corridors, dead ends, secret panels, and other architectural oddities were allegedly designed to [...]