Looking to plan a spooky road trip? Halloween celebrants are always on a mission for their next hair-raising adventure. Like a dedicated throng of thrill seekers in search of everything macabre, we’re in search of places that provide a generous supply of thrills and chills yet offer a great deal of fun and intrigue too.
For this reason, we’re recommending 8 Must Have Travel Guides for those wishing to plan their first (or next) spine-tingling tour of torment. These great guides provide a roadmap to some of the most devilish destinations in the United States, as well as around the globe.
Our Top Recommended Travel Guides
This gem offers a fascinating history and armchair journey into the world’s most dangerous and frightful places, complete with vintage maps and period illustrations in a handsome volume. This alluring read also includes 40 locations that are rife with disaster, chaos, paranormal activity, and death.
A tremendous road trip guide jam-packed with illustrations, fun facts, and travel tips. This guide includes some of the country’s most notorious crime scenes, hauntings, and supernatural sightings. You’ll also find recommendations to the best local bars and ice cream parlors, oddity museums, curiosity shoppes, and more.
Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries
This outstanding guide shows you where to find the most interesting and unusual cemeteries in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland.
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiends Travel Guide
Creepy Crawls is a true terror-touring travel guide. It provides a journey through the filming locations of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the real-life Baltimore haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as the macabre sites of Paris, France. This guide offers offbeat locations that horror aficionados and travel buffs alike will love. A spine-tingling treasure map to some of the world’s most fiendish locales, complete with names and addresses of each location, horror trivia and curiosities, as well as photographs and travel tips.
A Ghost Hunter’s Guide To The Most Haunted Hotels & Inns in America
This incredible guide includes visitor information and lots of photos of numerous inns and hotels across the United States. For example, you can discover the Stanley Hotel, the inspiration behind Stephen King’s best-selling novel, THE SHINING. Or the Battery Carriage House Inn in Charleston, South Carolina, haunted by a GENTLEMAN GHOST, who’s known to get into bed with female guests, and the famous TORSO GHOST, a uniformed Civil War ghost who time and again has appeared at the foot of the bed of countless guests…and much more. In addition to its countless descriptions of paranormal activity, this book delves into the intriguing history of each residence and includes lots of photos and helpful visitor information to help with your pre-trip itinerary.
A Guide To The Worlds Supernatural Places
Do have an obsession with witches, demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirits? This guide takes you by the hand and leads you into the spooky, chilling and downright weird paranormal signs of the supernatural that have terrified — and fascinated — people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world’s most puzzling enigmas? This remarkable book, which reveals a dazzling array of haunted castles, forbidden hideaways, and eerie landmarks comes completely packed with rich illustrations of the world’s more than 250 spooky destinations around the globe.
Halloween Horror Nights Unofficial: Around The Globe: Hollywood And Beyond!
If you’re brave enough to attend Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, you better believe you’ll need a survival guide. Complete with a detailed history of each location, this book is all that stands between you and them. For over 30 years, Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights has been the globe’s premier Halloween event spreading to Orlando, Hollywood, Across 12 US States, Europe (Spain), Singapore and Japan. You won’t find Mickey there (he’s too scared!), but you will find the bloodiest, goriest, most intense thrills of your life.
Ghost Hunter’s Guide To New Orleans
This cool guide is dedicated to travelers seeking the haunted history of the Crescent City with detailed descriptions and historical background of more than ninety locations, and take you on a journey to sites where you might encounter ghostly apparitions. Experience the French Quarter, famous cemeteries, the spirits of Commander’s Palace and Arnaud’s Restaurant, haunted theaters, and plantations…and more. This informative and thoroughly written guide includes informative and supplementary materials for those looking to have and document their own paranormal experiences.
Therefore, if you love Halloween and everything “spooky” you can’t go wrong with either of these great guides, guaranteed to make your next or first spine-tingling tour of torment one to remember.
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