Party Blueprints | Hallowmix

A dark hotel corridor with closed wooden doors and a carpeted floor, lit only by a few warm orange ceiling lights

Haunted Hotel

A grand hotel after closing, rebuilt from National Register files and Library of Congress photographs: check-in at the Office with a brass bell and key tags, a cleared ballroom with Poe's clock, room-service trays from a 1919 hotel cookbook's October 31 menu, a bottle of Manhattans, and a Room 13 that isn't on the board.

Intermediate Up to 16 guests

A full moon rising behind the square stone watchtower of a hilltop castle at dusk, with dark trees along the slope below

Classic Horror

Universal Monsters Night

A double bill of the black-and-white Universal horror pictures, 1931 to 1954, with Stoker's paprika chicken, a Corpse Reviver at the intermission, a laboratory made of LEDs and a plasma globe, and silk wolfsbane that nobody can eat.

Intermediate Up to 12 guests

Overhead view of a palm reading: a reader's fingers trace the lines of an open palm over a red cloth with gold fringe, tarot cards and a printed palmistry chart beside them

Gothic Elegant

Fortune Teller's Parlor

A Halloween parlor built on the real fortune games: Burns' nuts in the fire and his three dishes, the Irish ring in the barmbrack, Dennison's Cup of Fate, a cartomancy table and a palmistry chair. The séance talks to the dead. This party tells the living who they'll marry.

Intermediate Up to 12 guests

A jack-o'-lantern with triangle eyes beside a pumpkin pie on a plate and a small red pumpkin, lit by low sun against orange and red autumn leaves on a dark background

Classic Horror

Sleepy Hollow Harvest

Baltus Van Tassel's quilting frolic, rebuilt from Irving's own pages: the heaped Dutch tea-table, a dance, the ghost stories told that night, roasted apples on the hearth, Brom Bones' bowl of punch and a shattered pumpkin by the brook.

Intermediate Up to 16 guests

Dark carnival setup with striped fabric draping, warm string lights, fortune teller booth, and vintage carnival game stations

Dark Fantasy

Midnight Carnival

A dark carnival under string lights with rigged games, a fortune teller's booth, cotton candy, and the unsettling feeling that the ringmaster knows more about you than he should.

Advanced Up to 30 guests

Party table with black and white striped tablecloth, neon green accents, miniature sandworm centerpiece, and a copy of the Handbook for the Recently Deceased

Dark Fantasy

Beetlejuice Bash

A Tim Burton fever dream brought to life with black-and-white stripes, sandworm decor, Day-O sing-alongs, and shrimp cocktail hands that would make the Maitlands proud.

Intermediate Up to 25 guests

Dimly lit room barricaded with wooden planks and caution tape, emergency lanterns on a table covered with canned food and maps

Zombie Apocalypse

Zombie Apocalypse Bunker

Turn your house into a post-outbreak survival bunker with caution tape, emergency rations, walkie-talkies, and a social deduction game that will destroy friendships.

Beginner Up to 20 guests

Gothic ballroom with red velvet drapes, gold candelabras, and a table set with blood-red cocktails in crystal glasses

Gothic Elegant

The Vampire's Ball

A gothic ballroom affair with blood-red cocktails, candlelit waltzing, and enough dark elegance to make Dracula feel underdressed.

Advanced Up to 20 guests

Rustic apothecary table covered in glass bottles, dried herbs, mortar and pestle, and a cast iron cauldron

Witch Garden

The Witch's Apothecary

Build a working apothecary in your home with potion-mixing stations, dried herbs, specimen jars, and herbal cocktails that your guests actually brew themselves.

Intermediate Up to 15 guests

Candlelit Victorian parlor with velvet drapes, crystal ball, and Ouija board on a dark mahogany table

Gothic Elegant

The Haunted Victorian Seance

Transform your parlor into a 19th-century spiritualist salon with flickering candelabras, absinthe cocktails, and a proper spirit-summoning ceremony your guests will not forget.

Intermediate Up to 12 guests