Product Description

All aspects of the successful haunted house are covered here. There is good information on site selection, design, security, budgeting, and volunteer management. This is followed by detailed, illustrated descriptions of inexpensive illusions for your haunted house. Floor plans, advertising flyers and design worksheets are some of the sample materials included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #650733 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 140 pages

Review
"Chavez utilizes his knowledge of stage magic and his vivid imagination to add some new twists to old illusions. ...sets a new standard for Halloween 'How To' books. For the beginning and intermediate haunter, this book is a must have" -- Haunted Attraction Magazine

"it will tell you everything you need to know to make sure the event is the nightmare you want it to be" -- Big Reel

Customer Reviews

Good ideas for the dedicated Halloween enthusiast
This book seems targeted at someone that is planning to help build a medium scale haunted house for a charity event. It does this very well, describing the essence of what is scary and why, as well as all the steps required to create a safe and profitable haunted house on schedule. The author focuses on how to do first rate effects on a third rate budget though the use of innovation and imagination (and most importantly, his experience, which he shares with you). Most haunted houses are just stupid, because the designers build something that sounds like it would be scary, but does not really scare people. This author understands that people going to a haunted house want to be scared and he describes the essence of the subtle differences that transform an effect from eliciting a yawn to invoking a scream.

I have been building haunted scenes in my home for (gulp) thirty years and have produced medium scale haunted houses for charities, but I still learned a number of things from this book. The books includes plans, instructions, parts, and suppliers. The author (I learned after reading the book) builds �low� cost scary effects where are superior in scare and lowest in cost, of any I have seen. The book does not quite give enough specific information to build these for yourself, but it does cover a lot of other stuff. If you spend more then $150/year of scary stuff then you qualify as a Halloween nut and you should buy this book.

This book isn�t (alas) for everyone. This is for true Halloween enthusiasts willing to spend tens of hours, days, or even months preparing for a scary event. If you want tips for making your home a hallmark Halloween showcase, this is not the book for you.

Tons of quality information about operating a Haunted House.
This book provides excellent information about operating a haunted attraction. It covers more than just effects. Planning, location, safety, advertising, and other important subjects are covered. The production value of the book is lower than I expected; that's why I only give it 4 out of 5 stars. The artwork is simple but adequate. However, the quality and amount of information makes this book well worth the price.

This book is awesome!!
every year my friends and i do a haunted house in our friend's garage. we needed some new fresh ideas and this book helped greatly!! this book is easy to understand but makes it easy to have great professional looking haunted house ... even in your friend's garage :)