The signs are everywhere… from the leaves turning gold and orange to the pumpkins and candy corn that are at every turn. For some, fall is the best time of year and October is the one month to rule them all. If you love October, this is the guide guaranteed to keep you busy all month long!

Halloween Events in Huntsville 2014:
Family Fun

These events are geared towards kids and family. Your little pumpkins love an excuse to wear a costume!

Scarecrow Trail

• Date and Time: through Friday, October 31, regular garden hours
• Location: Huntsville Botanical Garden
• Event Information

Don’t miss this year’s trail at Huntsville Botanical Garden. The theme is “Once Upon a Time” and displays your favorite fun storybook and nursery rhyme characters.

Read more about this year’s Scarecrow Trail. 

Annual Family Frights and Zombie Kidz Karnival

• Date and Time: October 18, 12 – 4 pm
• Location: Historic Lowry House
• Cost: $5 per child, adults free
• Event Information

Family Frights Fundraiser is ALL NEW at the Historic Lowry House and includes games and prices, a cupcake walk and face painting Zombie style. There is also an interactive Zombie Dance. 

Magic Show with Magician Darrell Osborn

• Date and Time: October 24, 7 pm; October 25, 2 & 7 pm. & October 26, 2 pm
• Location: Fantasy Arts Center
• Cost: $7
• Event Information

It’s Fantasy Playhouse fun with magician Darrell Osborn. Wear Halloween costumes (if you wish) and enjoy a fun magic show!

The Addams Family presented by Independent Musical Production

• Date and Time: October 24 – November 1
• Location: Lee High School Main Stage
• Cost: $18 – $30
• Event Information

Independent Musical Productions presents The Addams Family, a new musical comedy. The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

Spooktacular Science Halloween Party

• Date and Time: Friday, October 24, 6 – 9 pm, Saturday, October 25, 2 – 7 pm
• Location: Sci-Quest Hands-On Science Center
• Cost: Advance: $6 members/$11 non-members, at the door: $7 members/$13 non-members
• Event Information

Join Sci-Quest for some Halloween fun as we liven up the night with our costume carnival. The kids aren’t the only ones dressing up! Meet local artists and costumers who have just as much fun with fashion. Also, step right up and get your tickets to enjoy a variety of carnival games, try your luck in our costume contest, and participate in our giant mummy makeover!

Spooktacular 5K and Monster Mile

• Date and Time: Saturday, October 25, 8 am
• Location: Fleet Feet Sports
• Cost: 5K registration – $18 – $25, 1 mile registration – $15 – $18
• Event Information

Fleet Feet Sports invites you to join runners, walkers, ghosts, and goblins of all ages. Get crafty and creative and participate in the costume contest or, better yet, compete in costume!

Bootanica

• Date and Time: Saturday, October 25, 10 am – 2 pm
• Location: Huntsville Botanical Garden
• Event Information

Put on your costumes and come on out to the Garden for a happening Halloween party. This family-friendly day will be spook-tacularly fun! We’ll have games and activities along with a Parade of Costumes at 11 am. There will be hay rides, hula hoop contests, pumpkin painting for the kids, and Steve the DJ.

6th Annual Teen Masquerade Ball

• Date and Time: Saturday, October 25, 8pm – midnight
• Location: Main location- Huntsville/ Madison County Public Library
• Cost: $10 in advance (available at all library branches) and $15 at the door
• Event Information

Calling all heroes and villains – actually teens in middle and high school. Come to the Main Library for the sixth annual Masquerade Ball, a celebration of Cosplay.

 

Village Halloween Bash

• Date and Time: Thursday, October 30, 3 – 6:30 pm
• Location: Alabama Constitution Village
• Cost: $5 per child, adults free
• Event Information

Calling all witches, monsters, and ghosts, Alabama Constitution Village will be your host. The goblins are haunting and the monsters will mash. It’s time to get ready for our first Halloween Bash!!! Put on your costumes and join us for Halloween games, crafts, and of course safe Trick or Treating at Alabama Constitution Village! Be sure to bring your trick or treating bags and enjoy safe halloween fun for all ages.

Spooky Space Spectacular

• Date and Time: Friday, October 31 from 4 – 8 pm
• Location: Davidson Center for Space Exploration
• Cost: $20 for family of 5 or $5 per person
• Event Information

Spend Halloween at the US Space & Rocket Center. Enjoy the family-friendly movie, “Hocus Pocus,” (PG) at 6 pm in the Digital Theater. Finish the evening with a Kooky Costume Contest for all ages at 7:45 pm. Other activities include moon bounce, crafts, tricks & treats.

 

Halloween Events in Huntsville 2014:
Adult Fun

This list represents events for the grown-ups, celebrating that sometimes our costumes and treats are just better!

Belles of Whitechapel: The Victims of Jack the Ripper Speak

• Date and Time: October 3-12
• Location: The Historic Lowry House
• Cost: $10
• Event Information

Everybody knows the name of history’s most infamous murderer. But what do you know about the women who became his prey? They are voiceless no longer, and now they will lead you step by step through their lives, their joys and sorrows, and they will each tell you the story of how she met Jack the Ripper on the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel!

The Haunted Lowry House Flickfest: A Month of Killer Movies

• Date and Time: Thursdays, October 9-30, 7:30 pm
• Location: The Historic Lowry House
• Cost: $2.50 per person per movie or series tickets for $10 per person
• Event Information

Join The Lowry House for a month of killer movies on their backyard big screen! BYOB

Nights of the Living Dead – Live Re-Enactment

• Date and Time: October 17, 18, 24, 25 starting at 7:30 pm
• Location: Historic Lowry House
• Cost: $15 advance, $20 at the door
• Event Information

You’ve seen the classic movie. Now YOU can be a part of the story at the Historic Lowry House as one of those desperate survivors, holed up in that old farmhouse, trying to keep the legions of walking dead from getting inside–and getting their slimy hands on YOU! Periods of tense silence followed by unnerving surprises await…

Mad Scientist Bash

• Date and Time: October 18 @ 5:30pm
• Location: Sci-Quest
• Cost: $30 per person
• Event Information

Grab your lab coat and break out the science beakers! The Science Center will transform into a mad scientist’s laboratory for this premier fundraiser to benefit Sci-Quest. Enjoy an electrifying evening with catering by Fire & Spice and Sweet Thing Pastry, drinks, silent auction, entertainment, games, a light show from LED-Orange, dancing, and live music.

The Rocky Horror Show

• Date and Time: October 24 – November 2
• Location: Renaissance Theatre
• Cost: $25 – $30
• Event Information

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure in a steaming hot new production of “The Rocky Horror Show” by Renaissance Theatre. Sure, the production’s sexy and lewd, but it’s still less provocative than one expects. All the licentious ingredients are there: tight corsets, fishnet hosiery, bare flesh, leather undergarments, sexual innuendos and seduction.

Howl-O-Scream 2014

• Date and Time: Friday, October 24, 7pm
• Location: Furniture Factory
• Cost: $25 – $30
• Event Information

It’s baaaaaaaaaack! Hop on board for a wickedly fun evening that will leave you screeching for more! This creepy crawl will include a ride on a haunted trolley that will come to a dead stop at FOUR spooktacular Huntsville haunts for a sample of their most frightful spirits for each brave soul on the tour, followed by a bone-rattling after-party that will raise the dead! Limited number of tickets available and it will sell out.

The Haunt at 3 Caves

• Date and Time: Friday, October 24, 7 – 11 pm
• Location: Historic Three Caves
• Cost: $25 per person, online only
• Event Information

The Land Trust and Huntsville Young Professionals provide a unique Halloween experience at one of the area’s best outdoor venues. Limited number of tickets available and it will sell out.

 Zombie Walk

• Date and Time: October 26, 2-4pm
• Location: Downtown Huntsville, Clinton Street Parking Garage
• Event Information

Put on your best zombie gear and stroll through Big Spring Park in downtown Huntsville!

Final Biergarten & Showing of Nightmare on Elm Street

 

• Date and Time: Thursday, October 30, 4:30 – 7:30 pm
• Location: US Space & Rocket Center
• Cost: Movie $5
• Event Information

Visit the U S Space & Rocket Center for the final Biergarten of 2014. Add a special Halloween movie in the Digital Theater – “Nightmare on Elm Street” – to complete the perfect spooky evening!

Ongoing Halloween Events in Huntsville

These Halloween events take place over multiple weekends.

Monday Night Fright Night @ the Library

• Date and Time: Every Monday in October @ 6 pm
• Location: Huntsville/ Madison County Main Public Library
• Event Information

The movie experts at the Downtown Huntsville Library will screen four horror classics from the 1970s and ‘80s, one each Monday in October.

Pizza Party Massacre

• Date and Time: October 17 – 31, Friday & Saturday nights starting at 8 pm
• Location: Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment
• Cost: $10
• Event Information

Lowe Mill’s official Halloween party, and a party like no other. This is a “Showbiz Pizza/Chuck E. Cheese” style family fun night out gone wrong.  Come for the fun, and stay forever, and don’t forget to Eat The Pizza! For Mature Audiences. A PG show will take place on October 31 at 6:30 and 7:30 pm.

Haunted Rickshaw Tours

• Date and Time: see schedule for dates available
• Location: Northside Square of Downtown Huntsville
• Cost: $25 per person
• Event Information

Rocket City Rickshaw’s Haunted Huntsville Tours, invites you, your family and friends to come and explore the mysteries of our southern heritage. These pedicabs offer a unique look at Huntsville’s most interesting haunted locations.

Huntsville Ghost Walk

• Dates and Times: Fridays @ 6pm; Saturdays @ 6 pm & 8:30pm
• Location: Tours start at Harrison Brothers Hardware
• Event Information

Who is the angry ghost in the courthouse? What is the story behind the haunting tune phantom children sign while playing on Walker Street? Learn the answers to these questions and many more on weekend nights June through October during Huntsville’s Ghost Walk.

Madison Ghost Walk

• Date and Time: Fridays @ 6 pm
• Location: Tours start at Bandito Burrito in Madison at 6pm
• Event Information

The Huntsville Ghost Walk moves to Madison to explore the spirits haunting this city in the Madison Ghost Walk.