1. Blood Manor
NYC’s most popular haunted attraction, the experience includes the Fog of Death, The Rue Morgue, and a Vestibule of the Undead all wrapped up in a terrifying 5,000 square foot maze layout.
2. Blackout
Known as the city’s most terrifying haunted house, this attraction is not for the faint-hearted. Each year the creators go more extreme, more intense, and more psychologically damaging so be prepared for a few sleepless nights after.
3. Nightmare New York
The longest running haunted house in New York is back for more terror then ever. This year’s theme is the horrors of the city itself, from Super Rats spawned by Hurricane Sandy, to reptiles and mole people in the subway, to the ghosts of the Flatbush basements. Surely, nothing in New York is scarier than higher taxes, but you can give this a try.
4. Times Scare
The only year-round haunted house in NYC, Times Scare is known for its classic use of NYC architecture and aestethics to showcase the grisly secrets of the city. Speaking of grisly, Times Scare also has “Scaryoke” in case the show moves you to murder a long forgotten Top 40 hit.
5. Coney Island Creepshow
The infamous Coney Island Freakshow would be nothing without stepping up the freakiness a notch for Halloween. The annual Coney Island Creepshow is here, every weekend starting Friday, October 10 with their 2014 incarnation, “Dead End Dummy”.
6. Dark Side of the High Line
The lost souls of the Titanic, The Manhattan Project, The Ghost of the Chelsea Hotel; all of these topics are a part of the “Dark Side of the High Line”, a walking tour of the popular High Line that covers the more ghastly past of the former subway line.
7. Trapped in Purgatory
Staten Island is showing Manhattan that they, too, have creepy places and scary spaces for brave-hearted New Yorkers. This year’s annual Trapped in Purgatory experience will feature a nocturnal funeral home, complete with embalming rooms, burials, viewings, and obviously spirits.
8. Gravesend Inn Haunted Hotel
This is what we in the business call a “high-tech theatrical horror production”, aka, a really, really scary haunted hotel with special effects. New York City Tech students from the Entertainment Technology Departments put their skills to use in the aptly named “Voorhees Theater” to create a “theme park quality Halloween attraction,” i.e., scare you pantsless!
9. Gateway’s Haunted Playhouse
If you need an excuse to get out of the city for a little while, Bellport, LI has a wonderful playhouse for you to enjoy. By enjoy we mean go see the insanely scary Gateway Haunted Playhouse; we can’t promise you’ll survive, but at least it looks fun, right?
10. Bayville Scream Park
Continuing with the Long Island theme, Bayville Scream Park is known consistently as one of the scariest haunted attractions in the NYC commuting area. The Bay family of Bayville welcomes you to enjoy the Bloodworth Haunted Mansion (a former family estate), or the creepily named, “Uncle Needle’s Fun House of Fear”, in addition to Evil in the Woods. Have fun with that.
11. Then She Fell
For the literary nerd on this Hallow’s Eve, Then She Fell is an immersive reimagining of the classic Lewis Carroll story Through the Looking Glass. Featuring a hospital ward and using 15 audience members per show, Then She Fell is your guide to an inception within an inception that will change how you view yourself and the world around you forever.
12. Sleep No More
Infamous in it’s own right, Sleep No More is a noir influenced labyrinth that literally walks its audience silently through the story of Macbeth. If you thought Shakespeare couldn’t get any creepier, it just did.
13. Jekyll and Hyde’s Chamber of Horrors
Another one for the book lovers and writer, Jekyll and Hyde Club presents the Chamber of Horrors, a themed haunted attraction based around the sinister private quarters and laboratory of Dr. Jekyll, and the “grim playground of Mr. Hyde”.
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