• Creative masks & costumes required*

  • We have workshops to help you design and make your own papier-mâché mask and costume* OR

  • Make your own papier-mâché mask and costume at home* OR

  • Buy your own mask and costume* OR

  • Buy a mask at the door day-of for $25.*

*We don't want to be ableist. We know you're busy too and don't want to exclude you if you don't have the skill, time, or energy to make your own costume although we're happy to help you with our workshops. Because we're hoping to restore this folk art tradition, we still strongly encourage homemade and workshop created costumes, however. It's a big part of the fun and makes this fête different.

• Masquerade - Your hopefully original masks-required

Half of the magic and fun of historical Hallow's Eve revelries included not knowing half or even most of the people who attended them with you with whom you shared an actual experience that always left you wondering...just who was that dashing debonair devil you kept making eyes with, or that buxom beauty bogie who brushed her hair towards you at the punch bowl frothing from dry ice? After all, you could barely make out their eyes with their face and identity concealed behind a mask...

• Costume contest

If you've made your own costume, you can compete for Best Costume, Scariest Costume, or Most Original / Clever / Novel/ Creative / Funniest Costume for $50 gift cards & a $200 grand prize for Best Costume overall.

• Halloween snacks & refreshments included with a plus ticket

Hallow's eve apple cider punch is included. Themed food items are available for purchase (bring cash or debit card)

• Cocktails, beer or mocktails included with a plus ticket

Two (2) Cocktails (we have a spiced cider cocktail and absinth cocktail created by Vintage mixologists in line with our historical Halloween theme), three (3) 16 oz beers (domestic or Oktoberfest) (over 21, bring photo ID) or two (2) mocktails (under 21 or alcohol-free option) are included in your ticket price. More available for purchase.

• Learn about long-forgotten Hallow's Eve traditions:

  • Halloween history: At the start of the evening, our maestro will quickly elucidate some basic Halloween history for all & perform an appropriate American folktale to kick off the evening's experiences. They'll introduce your guides who can answer questions for you or show you where the following activities are taking place.

  • Hallow's Eve Party divination traditions (indoors): Divine your future with three historical Victorian fortune- or future- telling Hallow's eve party traditions. One palm, pendulum, dream interpretation, or tarot reading is included in your ticket price ($25 for each additional reading paid directly to readers).

  • Fire and candle Hallow's Eve divination traditions (outside): Learn about historical traditions involving fire and candles around Halloween and see and learn about three different Hallow's Eve traditions involving candles and fire from our fire mistress.

  • Jack-O-Lantern carving & farm and field divination traditions (outside): Learn the Irish story of "Stingy Jack" and carve a pumpkin or turnip (pumpkins were a New World Crop, they were originally turnips) for the 11 PM Jack-O-Lantern Lighting Festival.

  • Victorian ghost-story and colonial American witch folktales telling by candlelight (indoors): Listen to a traditional poem about Halloween read at parties, six traditional Victorian ghost stories familiar to our ancestors, and three classic American folktales about witches. Or, at audience request, try your hand at cooperative creative story-telling by rigmarole where our storyteller begins a story, stops at a climatic moment, and participants "add-on" and try to "one-up" the last installment.

  • The Midnight Dumb Supper:* At midnight, we'll break our soul cakes, take a single bite of them, observe one minute of silence for visiting spirits, then exit the venue in silence walking backwards, entering our homes and traveling to our beds the same way in silence, leaving the remaining soul cake wrapped under our pillows so that we dream overnight of our one true love.*

* Do you dare test whether your partner is the right person for the right reasons, or invite the spirit world to reveal to you your true love? We hope for the sake of most couples they dream of each other, but Candlelight Frights, the venue, and associated vendors cannot be held responsible or liable for any nocturnal revelations. Couples may choose not to participate in the Dumb Supper but are asked to stand against the walls rather than taking a seat and to maintain utter silence as they exit the venue walking backwards.

• • Séance Options: All Hallows Even was considered the best night of the year to make contact to the other side and make contact across the veil between the living and the dead which was thinnest on this night, allowing all spirits to wander the earth freely.

[Spirit medium séance: 8:30 PM & 12 AM]

[Theatrical séance: 10 PM & 12 AM]

At the conclusion of the Dumb Supper* just past midnight, you're invited to participate in an actual spirit medium séance to make contact with your departed loved one(s) or an entertaining theatrical séance with Magician Byron Grey (or purchase a ticket to the 8:30 PM spirit medium séance or 10 PM theatrical séance). Seating is limited to 20 per séance time and will sell out quickly, so please purchase when you purchase your tickets today.

For $100 added on, you can mix and match and get a seat to BOTH séance types by attending the 8:30 PM spirit medium séance and midnight theatrical séance, or by attending the 10 PM theatrical séance and midnight spirit medium séance. We staggered their times to be sure you had a chance to experience BOTH if you wished to do so!