Missed the grand opening on Friday the 5th of October, but heard it was very very scary. So don’t miss out tonight (till midnight), or the next following Thursdays & Sundays, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Fridays & Saturdays, 7 p.m. to 12 midnight in October through the first week of November (for All Souls). And they will be open on Wednesday October 31 for Halloween.

“A haunted house at the old Bum Steer featuring a haunted maze based on a nightmarish story about early 20th Century twins!” Their names were Rachel and Rebecca.

Address: 1910 N. Stone (the old red Bum Steer restaurant/bar location), a large spooky old building even in its heydey, south of Grant Rd.

Tickets only $20 per person.*

*10/8/12 update: I hear from my sources that the price has dropped to $15, plus check out the website for the secret code word of the day for another discount. What a deal.

info: Facebook://www.Facebook.com/scaredstaffentertainment

Be scared! Disclaimer warning: there are ghoulish photos now on their facebook page…

Happy early Halloween and watch out for those twins (and their friends).

Background of Halloween at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween.

My husband and I attended the 6th Annual Zombie Walk on October 22, for our first time. We took a number of photos and here’s 13 to get you into the spooky feeling of Halloween tonight. The event was held at Jacome Plaza, outside of the Joel D. Valdez Main library downtown, 101 N. Stone Avenue. The zombie make-up was amazingly realistic, and there was a booth there offering face make-up for $5. Note that the theme this year was “Zombies in Space” so there were “regular” earthly zombies present, as well as undead space alien zombies. Warning: Some of these photos are not for the faint of heart.

And then after dark, it got really really scary, with gruesome undead zombies roaming around the plaza (see photos below). Note the dead (undead?) zombie fetus in the very pregnant woman, who won one of the costume categories “Most Original”. The last photo is a ghastly guy who was actually pretending to eat the brain in his hand, right next to us.

After we left (fled) Zombie Walk, we encountered lots of zombies as we drove north through the spooky 6th Avenue underpass, and they frightened us by realistically lurching over the rails, trying to get at us. It was too much like “Night of the Living Dead”.

Be safe tonight as you go trick or treating. Watch out for those zombies.

Nothing to do tonight except go trick or treating? Consider this party:

Tucson Chinese Cultural Center is having a Halloween Party, 5 to 8 p.m. at their lovely center at 1288 W. River Rd. (east of La Canada, north side).

Free admission to costume contest, games for the kids, candy (of course) for those who trick or treat. Pizza $2 per slice, drinks $1 (what a deal). All families are welcome.

And there will be a scary Tucson Chinese School haunted house.

For more info:
520-292-6900, www.tucsonchinese.org. Go online for their other activities/calendar of events such as qi-gong classes, a Holiday Party in December, Lunar New Year celebrations coming up in February, 2011 (Year of the Rabbit).

Happy Halloween to all. Be safe tonight.