Fear and Loathing in Miami

Your eyes bleed terror; your heart pumps fear. Your dead grandma laughs from the corner of the room as a hunchbacked madman hacks into a screaming victim on an operating table. You wake up scared and sweating. What a nightmare! And there’s more to come as we get deeper into the month of October. That’s because the horror business is a lucrative one, and ’tis the season for manufactured fear. This year, local fright fans actually have something to rejoice about. The infamous haunted house spectacular Nightmare: Ghost Stories is setting up shop in the 305. Straight off the streets of NYC, the Psycho Clan is shipping its horror product south.

The headlining feature is a full-on, 18-room haunted house experience with a story line that makes you the star of your own horror movie. The scares are designed for psychological terror and use live characters, high-end sound design, and multimedia visuals. Plus there will be two more attractions — an old-school vampire/zombie/Frankenstein house and a skeleton funeral — as well as the Graveyard Bar & Lounge, a cool place to chill. Tickets cost $25 presale, $30 at the door, $45 VIP.