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    What’s in! What’s out! What’s haunted! A visit to the Midwest Haunters Convention.

    by Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune Jun 17, 2022 4 minutes
    Costumed attendees arrive June 12, 2022, at the the Midwest Haunters Convention at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.

    I don’t know if there’s anybody who still needs to hear this, but: It’s a bloodbath out there, people. Covens of faceless trolls snap at our heels. Charming vampires feed on our vulnerabilities. Living in the 21st century has become a horror show. Every day is a fresh hell.

    But that doesn’t mean you have to be unfashionable.

    Last weekend in Rosemont, Illinois, about 140 days before Halloween, I attended the Midwest Haunters Convention, a long-running trade show for haunted-attraction professionals: mask sculptors, fake-blood distributors, creepy-contact-lens salespersons, would-be zombies looking for seasonal work, haunted house general managers. Unlike the much larger Halloween

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