Halloween in Dallas is anything but ordinary! From spine-tingling haunted houses and eerie ghost tours to festive fall celebrations and family-friendly trick-or-treating, Big D comes alive with spooky-season excitement. Whether you’re a fearless thrill-seeker looking for your next scream or searching for pumpkin patches, costumes, and seasonal fun for the whole family, Dallas has something waiting around every haunted corner.
Scarborough’s Hollow in Waxahachie
2511 FM 66
Waxahachie, TX 75167
OPEN Saturdays plus November 1st
A new immersive fantasy festival arrives this fall from the producers of Scarborough Renaissance Festival.
Join us for an unforgettable interactive journey through the enchanted Scarborough’s Hollow filled with magic, mischief and Autumn wonder. Enjoy live entertainment, artisan shoppes, interactive activities for all ages, and a touch of spooky delight!
Show us your Autumn Wonder by donning your favorite Fall, family-friendly costume and immerse yourself into the Fantasy of Scarborough’s Hollow!
Fright Fest at Six Flags Over Texas
September 11th – November 1st
It’s Thrills by Day, Chills by Night during HALLOWFEST, every weekend through November 1st
Fright Fest is back and spookier than ever!
What to expect: With pulse-pounding scares, innovative thrills, and scintillating shows, Six Flags Over Texas leaves no tomb unearthed, no crypt unrattled, and no fear untouched.
Cost: Scare zones, live shows, and most rides included with park admission; Haunted mazes, food, drink, and merchandise require separate purchase. Doc Varnum’s Hybrid Hell Pit, a brand new, exclusive scare zone, requires a Haunted Attractions Pass.
Fright Fest is not recommended for children under 13. All guests, regardless of age, need to have their own paid admission ticket.
Dare to enter the Halloween event of the season, featuring family-friendly attractions during the day…and thrills once the sun goes down.
Haunted Houses
Are you brave enough to step inside?
The only way out is through! Experience them all
with the Haunted Attractions Pass
Rides in the Dark
When the sun goes down the scare factor turns up. Experience chilling rides and coasters in darkness
Scare Zones
Watch your back!
There could be a zombie, a witch, or another
terrifying ghoul lurking in the dark.
https://www.sixflags.com/overtexas/events/fright-fest
For Families: Pumpkin Nights at Howell Farms
4016 W Division St., Arlington, TX 76012
September 17th – October 31st
Pumpkin Nights is where Halloween becomes art. We set out to create a different kind of fall experience—one that skips the scares in favor of creativity and wonder. Your journey follows a half-mile path through nine immersive pumpkin lands, from the fiery Forbidden City to the electric underwater world of Neon Reef, with larger-than-life installations built from over 10,000 hand-carved and custom-designed pumpkins.
The experience continues in Pumpkin Village, the heart of the festival — festive food, our live fire show, and games for the whole family. It’s a fun night out for everyone, and your new Halloween tradition.
https://www.pumpkinnights.com/dallas
For Thrill Seekers: The Haunted House Scene in Dallas
701 Taylor Dr, Plano, TX 75074
September 19th – Friday, November 13th
Step into one of the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s most immersive haunted attractions, where elaborate theatrical sets, terrifying creatures, state-of-the-art effects and unexpected scares are around every corner. For the 2026 season, experience more animatronics than ever before, the all-new Medusa’s Lair and Strega Chamber, and an ever-growing goblin horde taking over the labyrinth. Whether you’re a lifelong horror fan or looking for the ultimate Halloween night out, Dark Hour haunted house in Plano, TX, delivers a night of fear you won’t forget.
Reindeer Manor in Waxahachie
701 Howard Rd, Waxahachie, TX 75165
After 49 incredible years at our previous location, nearby developing properties led to a needed change in scenery—and with that came a bold new direction. Rather than trying to recreate the look and feel of our old space, we’re embracing fresh themes with updated experiences each season, with the same terrifying attention to detail you know and love. The core of what makes Reindeer Manor such an elevated experience is here to stay, but now without the hassle of mud, wildlife, or nearby construction. We’re excited for this new chapter—and ready to keep scaring YOU like never before!
Dallas Arboretum’s Autumn in the Garden
8525 Garland Road, Dallas, Texas 75218
September 19th – November 1st
Every autumn, the gardens come alive with one of Dallas’s most beloved seasonal traditions. More than 100,000 pumpkins, gourds, and squash fill the garden and this year, the Pumpkin Village embraces the theme Harvest Hues, reimagined through the lens of modern and contemporary artists including Basquiat, Rothko, Bourgeois, Mondrian, Escher, and Pollock.
Thrillvania Haunted House Park-Terrell
October 2nd-31st
3 Amazing Haunted Houses / 50 Haunted Acres
Thrillvania Haunted House Park is located about 33 miles east of Dallas, Texas at
Interstate 20 and Wilson Road in Terrell, Texas 75161
The World Famous Haunted Verdun Manor
Legend has it that Verdun Manor is haunted. You know what they say… a house cannot be haunted unless it has a history… and this haunted house definitely has a history!
In 1901, Baron Michael Verdun, a psychopathic werewolf, built a grotesque house on Voodoo Bayou. Deep within the recesses of his manor, he conducted cruel experiments on travelers, turning them into human-animal hybrids. Together with his vampire wife Lady Cassandra, he hosted fiendish masquerades, serving human flesh to his inhuman guests. Finally, one stormy night, an angry vigilante mob set the manor afire and murdered Verdun and Cassandra.
Verdun’s dying words swore vengeance upon all who dare enter his realm. Haunted Verdun Manor has stood silent for these many years, but folks still whisper about Verdun’s final curse. It is said Baron Verdun and his creatures still haunt the rotted mansion and overgrown cemetery. Those brave enough to enter Verdun Manor must dare both Voodoo Bayou and the old graveyard before reaching the manor itself.
Cassandra’s House of Clowns
Lady Cassandra has been hounding the clowns to pick up their mess at the Labyrinth and tidy up the place. They finally did. In the process they started tearing down walls and uncovered a ghastly sight: a giant, swollen brain hooked up to some diabolical apparatus. The truth has now been revealed: Baron Michael Verdun discovered, through his experiment on humans at the lab in Verdun Manor, the region of the brain that controls madness, mayhem and chaos.
The subject brain is housed in the Labyrinth, and the clowns are affected by it. They have torn everything down, exposing a new dimension to the Labyrinth that twists space and time out of proportion. They are throwing a party to celebrate! Lady Cassandra’s eyes are rolling in her vampiric skull, but Baron Verdun is smiling wickedly with approval. He knows that, as long as she has victims to prey on, she is happy… and so is he! So come, join the party at Cassandra’s Labyrinth of Terror!
Sam Hain’s Trail of Torment
Once bitten by Lady Cassandra, the now delusional and psychotic Sam Hain attempts to lure unsuspecting and curious humans who dare to pass by. Come walk through Sam Hain’s Trail of Torment and see if you can escape his wrath. Decide for yourself what is real and what is delusion.
If you are serious about Halloween and your annual trips around DFW for your annual scare, it’s worth the short jaunt to Terrell, Texas.
Screams in the City: Haunted Hallways & After-Dark Adventures
Ready to trade trick-or-treating for cocktails, costumes, and a few good scares? Dallas comes alive after dark during Halloween season, with plenty of spooky fun designed for adults. From eerie rooftop parties and haunted happenings in Deep Ellum to ghostly tours through historic downtown hotels, the city’s nightlife takes a wicked turn in October.
Dress to impress for a masquerade ball, gather your crew for a Halloween-themed bar crawl, or step into a pop-up horror bar where creepy cocktails and chilling décor set the mood. Whether you’re looking for a sophisticated night out or an evening filled with screams, Dallas delivers Halloween thrills long after the sun goes down.
