It’s been a weird couple of years for events, but Midsummer Scream creators are keeping holiday cheer up with an even bigger spooky-Christmas convention at this year’s Season’s Screamings. Moving out of its Los Angeles shopping mall storefront location...
Writer Anne Rice, whose books ushered in a renaissance of romanticism for vampire fiction, has died at age 80. Rice died at a Rancho Mirage hospital Dec. 11 due to complications from a stroke. Though she authored 38 novels...
Christmas is on its merry way but not everyone wants to celebrate it all jolly and nice. Some of us enjoy holidays with an edge. Case in point: Worst Ever Productions’ Christmas After Dark — a dark-comedy anthology made up...
Los Angeles-based escape room creator Rachel Adams wanted a way to turn her passion into a mission. So after developing the concept of an immersive, vampire dinner-theater experience, the Immersive Art Collective was born. “The idea for this collective has...
Halloween is here. And for Southern Californians, that means lots of options for things to do on Halloween night. If we’ve learned anything in the Halloween 2021 season, it’s that haunted attractions are back in full force with scare talent...
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group is no stranger to intimate, immersive experiences. But as we head into the home stretch to Halloween, the Los Angeles-based group will be visiting a very special house in Castaic to give guests a one-of-a-kind...
For the first time ever, some of the producers behind Midsummer Scream have conjured together a new trick-or-treating experience known as Cemetery Lane. The event, which runs Oct. 27-31, is located at the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles —...
Zombies, witches and werewolves glide back onto stage with the return of Leigh Purtill Ballet Company’s Sweet Sorrow, A Zombie Ballet to a live stage production. This year, the company swaps out the entirely virtual format implemented for 2020 with...
A first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sold for $1.17 million on Sept. 13, a new world auction record for the printed work by a woman, auction house Christie’s announced. Sold across two live and online sales, The Exceptional Literature...
Open for 19 days between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, Temecula Terror sets its inaugural event in the hills of the Temecula Valley Wine Country at Galway Downs. Dubbed an indie-style haunt, Temecula Terror invites thrill-seekers to visit a creepy,...