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All the Cool Halloween Events this Weekend and None that Suck
Monique A. LeBleu contributed to this post Every year The LA Beat gets so excited about Halloween! Once again, we offer a hand-selected list of fantastic events, and have weeded out the douchey ones. Friday 10/26 The Cramps Halloween Party … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Food, Movies, Upcoming Events
Tagged Halloween, thingstodoinLAforHalloweenwhenyourenotdead
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Leave The Light On: 8 Creepy Books for Halloween Time
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Ahem, I mean Halloween. And while there are plenty of excellent, well-known horror novels out there for you to cuddle up with this season, here are eight creepy books that might not … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged A Madness So Discreet, Audrey Niffenegger, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, dracula, Elizabeth Kostova, ghosts, Halloween, haunted house, Her Fearful Symmetry, horror, Jennifer McMahon, John Connolly, M.R. Carey, Mindy McGinnis, Pet Cemetery, Robert Browning, Sarah Waters, scary books, Stephen Lloyd Jones, supernatural, The Book of Lost Things, the girl with all the gifts, The Historian, The Little Stranger, The String Diaries, The Winter People, thingstodoinLAforHalloweenwhenyourenotdead, thrillers, vampires, zombies
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Ongoing Halloween Events for October Scares
One might think of New Orleans or Salem, Massachusetts when trying to imagine a great city for celebrating Halloween. But Los Angeles has an entire month of events to thrill, chill and scare the living crap out of you! HAUNTED … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Movies, Theater, Upcoming Events
Tagged Boney Island, boo at the zoo, Ghost Train, Halloween, Halloween 2018, Halloween events, Halloween events in LA, halloween family events, Halloween haunts, halloween in griffith park, Haunted Hayride, Hollywood forever cemetery tour, Knott's Scary Farm, live steamers, Nights of the Jack, Paramount studios Halloween tour, Queen Mary, Queen Mary Dark Harbor, thingstodoinLAforHalloweenwhenyourenotdead, Universal Studios Horror Nights, Universal Studios- Halloween Horror Nights, Warner brothers Halloween, Warner Brothers Studios Horror, wicked lit, Zombie Joe, Zombie Joe's Urban Death Tour of Terror
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Hollywood Museum President & Founder Donelle Dadigan Teams up with Amalgamated Dynamics Founders Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff Jr. to Curate “30 Years of Make-Up, Monsters & Magic”!
Just in the nick of time for the commencement of the most witching month out of all 12, some eerily malevolent creature was in the process of nicking time in full ironic parallel with anything and everything reminiscent of sharpened … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Miscellanious
Tagged Celebrities, celebrity, exhibits, Halloween, horror, horror movies, The Hollywood Museum
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Interview: Scream Queen Danielle Harris Goes Mental in Inoperable
Danielle Harris has established her presence in the horror genre with many beloved roles over the span of her career. Whether being stalked by Michael Myers in the original “Halloween” series, or returning under the direction of Rob Zombie, Harris … Continue reading
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Tagged Danielle Harris, Halloween, Hatchet, Inoperable, Michael Myers, scream queen, Stake Land, Zorya Films
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Among the Dead with Author Caleb Wilde
It’s Dias de los Muertos time here in Los Angeles and many other places touched by the goofy-syncretic Catholic paganism we associate with seeing our besties, our daily barrista, and even our bosses en calavera, surrounded by bouquets of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews, Offbeat LA
Tagged cemeteries, cremation, crematorium, Day Of The Dead, embalming, funeral home, Funerals, Halloween, mortician, pacemakers, pumpkin spice lattes, skeletons, skulls
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LALS Ghost Train: Back on Track with Ghoulish Delight
Last October a scary thing happened. The annual Ghost Train built and run by the Los Angeles Live Steamers (LALS) pronounced the popular attraction dead on the tracks and announced it would forever go dark. Many lovers of the playfully … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions
Tagged dukey flyswatter, Ghost Town, Griffith Park, Halloween, Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Steamers Railroad, Travel Town
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‘Dark Harbor’ at the Queen Mary: Prepare To Be Scared-Very Very Scared
I love to be scared. That is why I go to horror films, not the gory ones, just the super scary ones. I like nothing more than to be so scared that I jump out of my seat. It does … Continue reading
Posted in Attractions, Events, Upcoming Events
Tagged Dark Harbor, Halloween, Queen Mary, Scary
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On Exhibit Now: Scary Masks At Lethal Amounts!
Danny Fuentes, owner of Lethal Amounts, shows off some of the 150 Halloween masks included in his current gallery exhibit “The Art of the Halloween Mask”. This show, curated by Mikey Rotella, includes some masks that date back to the 1960’s and … Continue reading