When we talk about Halloween in NYC, we have to say that the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is so 20th century. A Brooklyn haunted house showcasing professional scarers is what you'll really want to check out this season.

The Gravesend Inn Haunted Hotel is a yearly production by the New York City College of Technology as a departmental project in "entertainment technology"—the kind of training that would prepare you to work on a Cirque de Soleil show in Vegas or be a Disney Imagineer. The hotel is designed to "sense" and respond to visitors; for more on that, check out an engineer's inside take on what makes it run. Last year's production imagined a hotel buried over a sailors' graveyard haunted by vengeful pirate ghosts; will it be zombies (or zombie Michael Jacksons this year? ]]> egw 2009-10-19T17:33:40-05:00 40.6987270 -73.987100 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/10/9/165245/155

We don't know of any famous creeps from Niles, a Southwestern Michigan town two hours from Chicago. But scare aficionados appraise its Scream Park as one of the best pop-up haunted houses for miles around because of its breadth of horrors.

Want to be chased by crazies? Try the chainsaw maniacs in the Field of Screams. Watched "28 Days Later" enough times that you're convinced you could fight off a zombie invasion? Test your mettle in All Hallows Evil.

And unlike the major theme-park fright nights, this one is open to you for just $22. Which is great 'cause you may have to buy new pants afterward.

Related Stories:
· Niles Haunted House Scream Park [Official Site]
· Spookiest Small Towns: Cradling a Killer [Jaunted]

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