Halloween Festivals

Frightfully good fun for all ages across the country

 

Campfire
Tale Tellin' Festival
Selma, Alabama

Ghost stories and other wild tales.

Dates: October 13 and 14

 
Scarecrow
Fall Festival
Haddonfield, New Jersey

A scarecrow-building workshop, crafts, and home-baked goods.

Date: October 14

 
Coffin
Emma Crawford Coffin Race and Festival
Manitou Springs, Colorado

Novelty coffin race with costumed runners.

Date: October 28

 
Tombstone
13th Door Haunted House
Tigard, Oregon

Just yards away from a cemetery, a reputedly haunted old cineplex is taken over by monsters.

Dates: September 15 to October 31

 
Flashlight
Winchester Mystery House
San Jose, California

An evening tour of an eerie 160-room mansion by flashlight.

Dates: October 13, 21, 28, and 31

 
Pumpkin
Pumpkin Festival
Keene, New Hampshire

Includes a Museum of Pumpkin Oddities.

Date: October 21

 
Campfire, scarecrow, flashlight, and pumpkin photographs courtesy of Getty Images; coffin and tombstone photographs courtesy of Jupiter Images

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