Halloween Hologram
There’s a whirring in my head, a pounding in my chest. It’s All Hallow’s Eve once again, and here I sit at this hallowed hearth of memories, soaked in a blur of the past, present, and future. It doesn’t seem…
Horrorlust
A Celebration of Horror and Halloween
Horrorlust
A Celebration of Horror and Halloween
Category Preludes and Nocturnes
Autumn Equinox
Life changes and so too we change with it. My own life and the writings here at Horrorlust are no exception and in a future post I’d like to delve into that more but for tonight I’d like to simply…
Weird October
It’s been several years since I visited so few haunted attractions during the month of October. The season started normal enough on Saturday, October 1 with a trio of stops at Shawhaven Haunted Farm, Awaken and Jackson’s Underworld. A pair…
Turn the Page, It’s October!
The open road beckons as we commence the 2016 haunt season. If all goes according to plan and the weather is cooperative, we’ll visit three of Michigan’s scariest places for a total of six attractions. First, we burn rubber to…
The Best Night of the Year
The best rite of passage of childhood is set to commence all across the nation; all manner of freaks, creeps, ghouls and monsters will soon flood neighborhoods in search of treasured treats. My son and I will join my sister,…
The Freaks are Due on Devil’s Night
Haunting on Devil’s Night is something of a tradition here at Horrorlust; regular readers of the blog know this to be true. It may not be the magical night itself when the veil between worlds is thinnest but Devil’s Night…
Fresh Blood, Current King Forge Nasty Trident
Saturdays in late October are always big nights for haunting and that is certainly true of this Saturday. Tonight, we hit the familiar pavement of northbound I-75 en route first to Clio Manor then to Exit 13 and finally Dreadlands…
State of Delirium
First work, then play. A trip through Delirium, the latest incarnation from the Wyandotte Jaycees, will mark the ninth consecutive year that I’ve toured the annual haunted attraction. The group is well-documented here on Horrorlust for a history of hit…
The Magic of Fatherhood
I became a father last winter when my son, Lincoln, was born. It was a proud and surreal experience. I take a lot of joy in being a dad and I know that in years to come he and I…
The Psycho Path Headlines Downriver Haunt Stomp
It’s a nice night to stay close to home and hit some haunts in the Downriver area. It wasn’t so long ago that nearly a dozen haunted attractions populated the region but recent years have witnessed the demise of The…
