2022 Fear Finder

It seems that the Fear Finder will only be available digitally, just as it was last season. Print media has, of course, been in decline for the better part of two decades, and that trend was only hastened by the…
A Celebration of Horror and Halloween
A Celebration of Horror and Halloween

It seems that the Fear Finder will only be available digitally, just as it was last season. Print media has, of course, been in decline for the better part of two decades, and that trend was only hastened by the…

One of the things that jump out at me about this Hallowblog review is just how utterly crude and sophomoric our banter was at the time. I’ll admit that I’m a bit embarrassed by some of our behavior chronicled in…

In this edition of Hallowblog Flashback, we revisit the best of the best from the 2009 haunt season. This was originally posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010. As you’re about to read, Bowbee’s Nightmare of Haunted Hollows in Armada won the…

When Rotten Manor first appeared in the pages of the Fear Finder back in 2015, it was evident from the monstrous facade that this haunt had big plans in mind. Awestruck by my visit on Halloween that inaugural year, subsequent…

Wrestler, home haunter and haunted attraction enthusiast Mike Marvel serves as co-host for episode #003 of Horrorlust Radio. In the third episode of Horrorlust Radio, Mike and I discuss the tradition of home haunting in all its various forms and then…

I once half-jokingly suggested to my wife that I didn’t just visit haunted attractions for fun — my nocturnal adventures to all things spooky was, as I told her, research. A lot of truth is said in jest and the…

This post comes to us from Sunday, October 21, 2007 and as you’ll read, it chronicles an outing to Pontiac’s twin terrors — Erebus and The Realm of Darkness. We have visited the acclaimed pair six times each over the…

John, Cikalo and I had fun at Erebus on Sunday night and I even had the opportunity to have a brief conversation with owner, Ed Terebus. It was both interesting and strange to visit a haunted attraction in July and…

The 2013 field was full of worthy nominees and after much consideration, I’m prepared to unveil the 2013 Horrorlust Haunt Awards. Rotten Pumpkin – The Rotten Pumpkin award is given to the haunt considered to be the most disappointing of…

The haunt awards, like Horrorlust itself, are the result of an evolution. The 2013 crop will be the sixth annual edition for most of the awards — Rotten Pumpkin, Eerie Vibrations, Dark Horse, Killer Automatons, Pulse Pounder, and Monster all…