Hollywood Gothique

NOTE: Hollywood Gothique’s annual Halloween Haunt Odyssey is a sort of unofficial tour of yard haunts in Los Angeles, many of which are open only on October 31st. Each year, we hit a few old favorites and search for some new discoveries.
Yesterday, in Part 1, we laid to rest our impression of the local yard haunts that [...]

As usual, Halloween in Los Angeles has turned out to be crowded with more bats than we could possibly squeeze into a single belfry. Having scrambled to as many Professional Haunts and Theme Park Haunts as we could in the early weeks of the season, now in the final days of October we turn our attention [...]

You’ve heard me say it before: there are too many yard haunts to get to all of them in a single Halloween night. That’s why we snuck out early for Part 1 of our 2007 Halloween Haunt Odyssey, in which we visited Boney Island, Malice in Wonderland, and House at Haunted Hill. Then on October [...]

Many yard haunt are open only on Halloween Night or maybe one or two nights before, but some of the more extravagant ones get a jump on the competition. Earlier this week, we made a trip to the 10th and final year of Boney Island in Sherman Oaks, which began this year’s haunt on October [...]

This Halloween, Hollywood Gothique eschewed its usual haunts and set off on a voyage of discovery, seeking out new and different amateur efforts. In the process we made several exciting discoveries (if, like Columbus, we can use the word “discoveries” to mean places that are not really new but just new to us).
With Hallowed Haunting [...]

In last year’s Haunted House Odyssey, we described our tradition of spending October 31 seeking out amateur yard haunts — those houses that, free of charge, entertain their neighbors with elaborately decorated yards, full of tombstones, fog, skeletons, and other spooky denizens of the night.
This year, we made a point to stop by some old [...]

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 [...]