FALL FUN EVENTS
OCTOBER 23
SeaWorld Spooktacular
SeaWorld San Diego is celebrating Halloween with the return of Spooktacular, featuring all-new family-
friendly trick-or-treating fun which is included in park admission. Guests will set sail on a pirate-themed adventure filled with interactive activities, a thrilling candy quest and the lively tunes of a Pirate Sea Shanty Band. Enjoy enchanting moments during story time with talking skulls and capture magical memories with friendly Halloween mermaids. With more trick-or-treat stations than ever before, and a charming pumpkin patch, there’s no shortage of festivities for everyone during this daytime event. SeaWorld Spooktacular runs every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Nov. 3.
seaworldsandiego.com
Haunted Adventure
The Gaslamp Quarter Historical Foundation is offering a frighteningly fun twist on its haunted self-guided tour for the month of October. For just $10 you’ll get to hunt for ghosts with an EMF reader during your haunted self-guided tour and receive a special edition sticker! Includes haunting stories. Wednedays through Saturdays. Purchase tickets in person at the Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House, 410 Island Ave.
gaslampfoundation.org
Howl-O-Scream
Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld San Diego has returned and is running on select nights through Nov. 2. Howl-O-Scream offers a full night of fear with haunts, spine-tingling thrills, shows, coasters, speakeasies, food and more. Around every corner, in every nook and cranny, are all-new and enhanced scares and scenes that even the bravest souls will be unsettled by the night’s horrors.
seaworld.com/san-diego/events/howl-o-scream
OCTOBER 24
Movies at the Gaslamp Museum
Ready for a spooky night out? The Gaslamp Museum in downtown San Diego is showing a different classic horror movie every Thursday leading up to Halloween! Your ticket includes an exclusive after-hours candle-lit self-guided tour of the haunted Davis-Horton House before settling in for a classic horror movie. Bring your favorite snacks and get cozy for a night of chills and thrills! Check in is at 6:45 p.m. and movies start at 7:15 p.m. at 410 Island Ave. Don’t miss out on the frightful fun! Tickets must be purchased in advance.
gaslampfoundation.org
OCTOBER 25
‘The Addams Family’
San Diego Junior Theatre kicks off its 77th Season with a return of the ooky, kooky musical, “The Addams Family,” a comical feast that embraces the kooky elements in every family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart, young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. If that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a “very normal” dinner for Wednesday’s “very normal” boyfriend and his parents! Running Fridays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. from Oct. 25 to Nov. 10. The popular Pajama Night is Friday, Nov. 1! The ASL-interpreted performance is Saturday, Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. For optimal seating, members of the deaf community can reach out directly to the box office at boxoffice@juniortheatre.com. Box office: (619) 239-8355
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‘Poe & His Progeny’
Write Out Loud, an organization founded to inspire, challenge and entertain by reading literature aloud for audiences of all ages, announces “Poe and His Progeny,” at the Villa Montezuma Museum in Sherman Heights, 1925 K St., on Oct. 25, 26, 31 and Nov. 1. Join Edgar Allan Poe and his guests, Mary Shelly, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Guy de Maupassant, and others, for the retelling of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Frankenstein,” “A Tress of Hair” and more, while immersed in the stunning Victorian backdrop of the Villa Montezuma. Experience the gripping imagery of Gothic masters of the mysterious, shared by some of San Diego’s most talented performers.
writeoutloudsd.com/poe-and-his-progeny