Halloween Wrap-Up

First: Business.

I have a giveaway up on Goodreads for AMITY…stop by and enter to win one of three paperback copies!

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Next: Fun stuff.

The haunted house was chaotic, loud, and messy. In all, a success.

The layout worked just like I planned, but the details almost killed me during the setup…plus, I had one fogger and one timer fail in the first hour, one corrupted audio file, a dead speaker system, and I dropped a blacklight an two hours before dusk (my wife found two replacements at Walmart, by some All Hallows Eve miracle).

My neighbor tallies all of the visitors to our houses on a ticker. I didn't catch him for the final total, but based on his early count, I'm guessing we had close to 725.

Fun, but holy crap am I glad I only do this once a year.

It's almost getting to be too much for me to set up and break down, though. I need to figure out something new for next year. Something like striking it rich so I can buy a warehouse to keep decorated all year round. Yeah, something like that.

I was so busy that I didn't get any pictures, but I did take ten minutes to do a walk-through with my video camera. I did one pass in natural light (or lack thereof), and then a second pass with the infrared mode on (which shows way more detail than a visitor would see, but you can see the props in place).

Enjoy…