Build guides
Yard builds by budget tier, the giant-skeleton class, animatronics, projection, inflatables, indoor and party, lighting and fog, safety and weatherproofing. Start reading →
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Build guides for the yard, the porch, and the window. Gear picks we would put in our own display, each a named model bound to the build it belongs to. The year-round calendar of the haunt. Written by collectors in Santa Monica who do this every October.
A guide site for people who treat their yard like a stage. No app to install, no account to make, no tier to upgrade.
Yard builds by budget tier, the giant-skeleton class, animatronics, projection, inflatables, indoor and party, lighting and fog, safety and weatherproofing. Start reading →
Products we would put in our own display: a named model, the build it belongs to, one line on why, and the date of the last link check. See the picks →
Halloween is twelve months wide: Friday-the-13ths in winter, summer-camp horror in July, Krampus in December. See the year →
Editorial picks, not paid placements. Every pick names the model and the build it belongs to. Every link is checked by an automatic sweep before it is published; a pick that fails the check is pulled, not left dead. The date of the last check is shown below.
Every guide is written in-house and dated. Drafts made with AI assistance say so on the page.
The editorial calendar of the haunt. October is the peak; the rest of the year is where the good displays get planned.
Start with a guide, pick your gear, and put the countdown on the fridge.
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