Experience the Great Pumpkin before Charlie Brown does with a several-hundred-pound pumpkin overflowing with beer. This autumnal alcohol festival stars 80-plus pumpkin beers on tap and a fierce costume competition.

Seattle Center

The owner-operators of this Pioneer Square ghost tour emphasize their local insight and knowledge of the city’s history, examining everything from Victorian mysticism to the occult. Only for guests 16 and older. Reservations recommended. 

Pioneer Square

This spooky, immersive walking tour celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Murder, mayhem, monologues await in one of Seattle's spookiest neighborhoods (historically speaking.) 

Georgetown

Sentient machines have taken over MoPop to throw the party of the century. Dance the night away or see if you can complete a terrifying scavenger hunt through the museum. Compete in the costume competition to win a cash prize. 

MoPop

Straddling a very thin line between LARPing, Renaissance fair, and haunted house, this forest trail at Grand Farms in Vaughn promises to be littered with grotesque medieval terrors. It warns that souls cannot survive in the utter darkness of these woods so, you know, buyer beware. Scare-free for the kiddos between 6–7pm. 

Vaughn 

One of the campier options, Nile Nightmares at Nile Shrine Center offers six haunted attractions that run the gamut of classic horror tropes—laboratory, circus, slaughterhouse, you get the idea—and three escape room puzzle games. Plus, look out for $10 kids days. 

Mountlake TErrace

Idyllic pumpkin patch by day, amygdala-tickling horror show by night. Stocker Farms transforms into a scary attraction in the dark, notable for its clown-heavy repertoire. Clown shot paintball provides opportunity to seek your revenge.

Snohomish

Can Can Production’s adaptation of The Nightmare Before Christmas, running at the Triple Door, features a Jack Skellington who has become disenchanted with his life’s work of scaring people. An encounter with Christmas Town sets him on a new spooky path.

Triple D0or

Step into a historically haunted venue for a terrifying free-roam cocktail party experience, with interactive experiences, spooky entertainment, music, and of course, actual ghosts who once roamed Dr. Grigor Volkov's psychiatric facility until something went terribly wrong...

Rainier Chapter House, Capitol Hill

Tacoma’s iconic house of horrors implores you to leave your everyday existential dread and doomscrolling behind in favor of a much more fun sense of impending doom. Murky depths and lurking sea creatures await, with an all-new theme titled "From Beneath."

Freighthouse Square, Tacoma 

The Morgue distinguishes itself from other haunted houses with its world-building and theatrical panache—no rifling around, blindfolded, in bowls of cold spaghetti. A slurry of unconfirmed, sensational rumors of murder and the supernatural surrounds the building itself, which was the site of a former mortuary and crematorium.

Georgetown