Books on how to create the scariest haunted house or the best halloween decorations you can imagine.
Haunted House Halloween Handbook
By Jerry R Chaves
Every October, schools, civic clubs, scout troops, little leagues and charity groups of all kinds sponsor Halloween “haunted houses” as fundraisers. But where do they go for good information on how to do it? How to make the rotting corpse that scares the bejeebers out of everyone or the demonic knife-wielding doll or the living, beating heart that visitors swear is real? And what about the mundane details (e.g., permits and insurance) that make the haunted house a profitable and safe venture? Where does one find out about that? All aspects of the successful haunted house are covered here. There is good information on site selection, logistics, design, security, budgeting, sponsorship and volunteer management. This is followed by detailed, descriptions of many inexpensive illusions for your haunted house; each is accompanied by illustrations that further explain how to make the effect successful. Floor plans, advertising flyers and design worksheets are some of the sample materials included.
How To Make a Haunted House
Your Step By Step Guide To Making a Haunted House
If you want to learn how to make a haunted house, then get the “How to Make a Haunted House” guide now.
Inside you will discover tips and secrets on how to start a haunted house business.
- How to integrate your haunted house into the community.
- How to find a location for your haunted house.
- Tips on permanent, temporary, or mobile haunted houses.
- How to build walls for your haunted house.
- How to do set design for a haunted house.
- Haunted house characters
- Human resources and your haunted house
- Ticketing and money tips
- And much more.
How to Haunt Your House
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
If you are looking to raise the coffin lid a little higher this Halloween, try out some of these spooky projects and tips. From simple to advanced there is something here to make your next Halloween party or home haunt even spookier. Halloween is for grown-ups too– the projects in this book are not intended for children, but for the creative, adults who want to handcraft their own Halloween home haunt and graveyard fun.
How to Haunt Your House, Book Two
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
The coffin lid was raised a little higher in, How to Haunt Your House, Book one. Now it’s time to dig a little deeper and conjure up some new projects and decorating ideas to impress this year’s ghouls and goblins! Inside, How to Haunt Your House, Book Two, you will find a broad range of home haunt prop step-by-step instructions. From animated props to full sized grave ghosts there is something for the haunt enthusiast in everyone. See how to hack store bought props into something truly ghoul-a-rific. Turn Styrofoam into tombstones, crypts and tombs using just a few basic ingredients and tools. Make a severed hand endlessly stir over a glowing cauldron, amid a collection of Apothecary jars and witches’ bottles filled with strange potions and sinister looking ingredients. Turn this year’s Halloween party into the hair raising experience even the undead will be talking about.
How to Haunt Your House, Book Tree
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
The long wait is finally over! How To Haunt Your House, Book Three! is here at last! Advance copies of the book were sent out to haunt industry professionals and the reviews came back with overwhelming enthusiasm once again.
How to Haunt Your House, Book Four
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
How to Haunt Your House brings new chapters flying, bubbling and crawling to the series in Book Four. There are Flying Phantasms, Mad Labs, Ten Foot Trees, and a variety of home spun spiders all wrapped in our new favorite spider web material using beef netting! We took our theme Invasion of the Spiders to a whole new level and turned our toxic spider experiments into a variety of creepy crawlies perfect for the home haunt. It’s time to get inspired by old B-movie monsters! Turn off the lights and crank up the screams… It’s time to get prepared for the invasion!
Best of How to Haunt Your House
More than 25 Scary DIY Projects for Parties and Halloween Displays. Including 10 new projects!
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
Ready for a haunting good time? Want to learn to make your own tombstones and cemetery, turn your child into a mummy, create Monster Mud, and more? You’ve come to the right place! When the living set out to haunt houses, they scream for a unique look and feel. They want to create a spooky memory for visitors coming to party or trick or treat. With a bit of theatrics and light—and layers and layers of homemade cobwebs—today’s home haunters hunger to go beyond just setting out a jack-o’-lantern on Halloween. Now you can create an extreme cinematic experience with touch, sound, smells, and spooktacular sights that bring on the chills and screams at every turn. This frightening decorating guide provides inspiration and instruction on how to lift your coffin lid a little higher and transform your house and yard into the best haunted attraction in the neighborhood this Halloween season!
Best of How to Haunt Your House – Volume 2
Dozens of Spirited Diy Projects for Parties and Halloween Displays
By Shawn Mitchell and Lynne Mitchell
Create a spooky memory for visitors coming to party or trick-or-treat with more than 20 DIY projects for haunting your house. With a bit of theatrics and light, you can create your own flying phantasms, giant jointed-leg spider, coffin, and other spooky displays. Now you can create an extreme cinematic experience with touch, sound, smells, and spooktacular sights that bring on the chills and screams at every turn. This second volume includes new projects that provide both inspiration and instruction on how to lift the coffin lid a little higher and transform your house and yard into the best haunted house in the neighborhood this Halloween!
Halloween Propmaker’s Handbook
By Kenneth Pitek
With some corn syrup, drink mix powder and water, you can make a splendid concoction of stage blood – without spending an arm and a leg. From budget-friendly frights to sophisticated props, this book offers dozens of imaginative ways to haunt a house for Halloween. Readers will find generously illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating a barbecued skull, devil eyes, bonehead tableware, a magic bottle, a glowing brain and other projects. The book details ways to enhance an eerie ambiance with effects like blacklights and music. Props use many common household items and tools. Where specialty items are required, the author tells where they can be found at a reasonable cost. Projects take anywhere from a few hours to several days to complete. The chapters ooze with tips on topics like creating apprehension and surprise, using design to guide guests, creatively using plastic skulls, and making papier-mache masks and molded hands. There are recipes for fake blood and vomit and ideas for using them, and other creative and adaptable ideas. Appendices include Merry Halloween, which advises, One of the best times to look for bargains on Halloween prop-building materials is right after Christmas; an alphabetical listing of props and supplies and where they can be found; a list of specialty suppliers; and an epitaph inviting comments.
The Art of Fear – Theories of a Dark Entertainer
By Mr. Maniacal
The 13 Commandments of Haunting
Foundational Concepts Every Haunter Needs to Make a Successful Haunted Attraction
By Scott Swenson
If You’ve Got It, Haunt It: 50+ Ways to Profit From Your Own Halloween Business
By Linda Johnson Tomsho
How To Make A Haunted House
Ideas for Props, Scenes & Scares for Real Haunted Houses & How to Build a Portable, Modular, Dark Attraction
By Vladimir Lee and J.B. Corn
