How To Make Your House Haunted For Halloween

By Jeff Schoettker

I am a weirdo. I love Halloween. I always have, and I always will. What I really love is building my own Haunted House and scaring people with family and friends for Halloween. This is what I am going to teach you all about. So I wrote and illustrated this fine book, “How To Make Your House Haunted For Halloween.”

If you love Halloween. If you love rubbing grease paint all over your face, acting like a crazy freak and losing your voice. If you remotely like any of the following, horror movies, slasher movies, pumpkins, black cats, sci-fi stuff, monsters, ghost, witches, vampires, paranormal stuff, demons, werewolves, zombies, blood, gore, ax wielding maniacs and every horrific thing that goes along with the Halloween season, this is definitely the Haunted House guide book for you.

“How To Make Your House Haunted For Halloween” is your full service, easy to understand guide to all the spooky elements that come into play when making your very own Haunted House. Everything from making a simple layout, to making your very own scary Halloween props. Everything you need to become a Home Haunter. Big time.

I have been doing a Haunted House now for more years than I care to tell you Amazonians. Over the years, I have learned some helpful tricks and made some very scary props. This book has 14 easy to understand sections on Haunted House elements like the Creepy Pathway, Demonic Sounds, Scare Spots and more. With over 23 Halloween HOW2’s like the Blood Pumping Head, The Not So Dumb Dummy and more, you can easily create your own Haunted House. (Insert creepy organ music here.) It has tons of art and photos to help illustrate the books scary tutorials and links to the places mentioned in the book for further content.

You could apply this freaky Halloween information to use for your Home Haunt, Halloween Party, Classroom, Church or your Organization.

If you love Halloween like I do, and want to make a Haunted House, start with this book. It is full of helpful information that will lead you down a dark and scary pathway, to some really good times!
Happy Halloween!

A NOTE ON KINDLE BOOKS: If you do not own a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for your computer or smart phone and then buy this book, or any Kindle book for that matter. The other neat thing about Kindle is, when I update the book, you will automatically receive the new content. Cool! That’s a selling point right there Amazon. Nice job.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Schoettker
• Release date: Jul 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370744398

Jeff Schoettker

Hi Everyone! I'm a Writer / Artist / Bad Guitar Player in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. I love all things creative, and the people who create them. I hope you enjoy my books!

Book preview

I love Halloween. I love it. It is a magical time here in Southwestern Ohio, for me at least, it always has been. I remember one of my fondest, and most scary memories when I was a little kid was this time I was trick-or-treating on my street. I remember it like it was yesterday, and I’m quite a bit older now so that is saying something.

I was walking up to a very dark and concealed front porch. It was a big, concrete square that had steps leading up to it, and a railing going around it. A struggling jack-o’-lantern with a happy face carved on it barely illuminated the structure.

From the driveway, I could just make out two dimly lit dummies laying strewed along the concrete surface of the porch next to the struggling pumpkin. It looked creepy and scary, but I remember thinking to myself, They could have propped those up a little bit better. It looked like someone had just tossed them down against the railing.

I went up to the front door and yelled the traditional chant, Trick-Or-Treat! To my horrifying surprise, those two lumped over dummies sprung to life, they jumped to their feet moaning and groaning at the top of their lungs. Well, I just about flew out of my plastic Dracula mask! I wasn't expecting that at all. They really, really scared me. Then they gave me candy, not a bad trade off by any kid’s standards.

An orange and black spark went off in my little head and I had a revelation. I knew at that moment that I too wanted to scare people for Halloween and that’s just what I have been doing all these years. I’ve gotten good at it. At an early age, I was working in a professional Haunted House. A few years later, I turned my full attention to my very own Haunted House, and I have been doing that ever sense. I have even been lucky enough to be on the local news. Quite the Halloween big shot.

Halloween is a covenant holiday in this house, and a very good time to boot. I’ve had decades of fun scaring people and tons of great memories. This is exactly what I am going to teach you to do with this book. Have fun scaring people in your very own Haunted House. You will never have so much fun putting grease paint all over your face and straining your vocal chords. I promise.

When I look back over the thirty plus years I've been freaking people out, the best advice I can give you right out of the gate is this; it's not what's in your Haunted House, but who's in your Haunted House! My point being, you could be just a guy dressed as a dummy on an empty porch and still be able to scare someone.

Let me tell you something, when you do scare your very first kid, you'll fall in love with it. It is so much fun. When you scare your very first parent, you'll be hooked on it for life! Of course, nothing tops scaring the teenagers dressed like teenagers. It is positively my favorite. I can guarantee you will love that as well.

So here we go people, let’s learn some super cool, super scary Halloween Haunted House Tips. We want to do much more than dress like a dummy, right? I thought so. Let’s get to it then. Let’s go Make Your House Haunted For Halloween!

The Haunted Place

The first thing you need to decide is where to have your haunted area. You could do it on a small scale, a guy dressed like a monster by the front door or an apartment door. You could decorate your garage, your shed, or your driveway. You could just creep around the front yard dressed in nothing but a bloody butchers bid and wielding a big ax. Trust me on this, you will scare people. You could go big, and do a full-fledged Haunted House, decorating your entire property. That’s also a great idea for a Halloween party, your friends will always remember.

You can also use these tips to decorate a cafeteria, a classroom or create a Haunted House or area to make money for charity or just for fun. Or you could just dress yourself like a dummy and lay on the front porch with nothing but a struggling jack-o’-lantern to light the way for the trick-or-treaters. All of the above can be fun. How many rooms you decide to create and decorate, and how big you go is all up to you, the time you have, and your imagination. You can probably make a haunted area out of anything, try doing one in your car. That would freak a lot of people out.

At my house, I currently do two rooms, and a good sized grave yard. It is a very nice setup, and it is the perfect size for my little family to work. Back in my younger days, I use to go big, I would have a Haunted House with multiple rooms, then toss a Halloween party after. Lots of people, lots of fun, lots of screaming. You can do that too, it’s all up to you.

Okay, do you have your haunted area in mind? Good. The first thing you need to figure out is the general layout of your haunted area. When you begin your layout, you need to have a few things in mind, how many ROOMS do you want to haunt, what PATHWAY the trick-or-treaters will be using. How will they be coming in, and how will they be going out, two very important things to know. Once you have the pathway in mind, you will build up your haunt around it. What I mean by that is, where you are going to put your PROPS, LIGHTS, SOUND, FOG MACHINES and of course, your MONSTERS and SCARY ACTION. I will be going into detail about each