Seattle’s Best Haunted Houses and Frightful Draws

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

Step into a historically haunted venue for a terrifying free-roam cocktail party experience, with spooky aerial performers and illusionists, music, and of course, gothic romance. Victorian finery meets vampiric desires in the cinematic haunt. 

Rainier Chapter House

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 6–7pm. 

Vaughn 

If costumed actors groping through the dark aren’t quite your thing, the light show at the Seattle Chinese Garden just might fit the bill with a touch of spooky season thrill. Illusions, shadows, echos, and fog create mystery during a one-hour stroll through the garden’s shadows. 

Seattle Chinese garden

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. The concrete basement was once used to store corpses during World War II; ghosts and monsters await.

Tacoma 

Experience the Great Pumpkin before Charlie Brown does with a several-hundred-pound gourd overflowing with beer, tapped fresh each night. This autumnal alcohol festival stars 60-plus pumpkin-adjacent beers on tap, a fierce costume competition, and a pumpkin pie eating contest.

capitol hill

One of the campier options, Nile Nightmares at Nile Shrine Center offers a whole fair’s worth of haunted attractions that run the gamut of classic horror tropes—laboratory, circus, slaughterhouse, you get the idea—and four escape room puzzle games. 

Mountlake TErrace

Idyllic pumpkin patch by day, amygdala-tickling horror show by night, the Snohomish farm is part corn maze, part haunted house. The farm transforms into its spooky alter ego Stalker Farms in the dark, notable for its clown-heavy repertoire and four haunting storylines to choose from.

Snohomish

This spooky, immersive walking tour celebrates its 22nd anniversary this year with a tilt toward Indigenous history—told by Indigenous storytellers. In place of jump scares along the one-mile walk, real macabre history is unearthed: Murder, mayhem, and monologues await in one of Seattle’s spookiest neighborhoods (historically speaking.) 

Georgetown

Glam gods of gore and neon have taken over MoPop to throw the (annual) 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, trivia, and incantations for a shot at winning tricks and treats. 

MoPop

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 spooky new path throughout the burlesque musical.

Triple Door