Do you head straight to the horror section at the DVD store? When Jack Nicholson renovates the bathroom door in The Shining, are you the one chomping on popcorn with a big grin across your face while everyone else covers their eyes? If the answer is “absolutely!” then we have something for you Norman and Mother Bates. Twisted tours and horror-inspired hotels filled with tales of hangings, burnings, and ghoulish scenes beyond the silver screen. Step inside my pretties…

Green skin and warty noses riding on broomsticks? Find out what a real witch is like with a tour from Boston to nearby Salem, hotbed of the 17th century witch trials. See the Salem Witch Museum and House of the Seven Gables that inspired a book and multitude of D grade horror films. Return to Salem’s Hawthorne Hotel decked out in 18th century style furnishings - the perfect place to drift off into a safe night’s sleep knowing that, unlike Ms Blair, the Salem witches really did roam these woods.

Gushing water and screams all come together at the Nightmares Fear Factory at Niagara Falls when you cross the threshold into the haunted house attraction with a real-life ghost story. This tour is guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck — but will you add to the 96,300 people who have chickened out before the tour was finished? If you’re too scared to sleep, at least you can enjoy the view from the rooftop restaurant of the Hilton Niagara Falls Fallsview Hotel or distract your mind with a swim at the indoor pool complete with a cascading 27-foot waterfall.

Poke into celebrity death sites on the Deadly Departed tour in Los Angeles. While riding the Tomb Buggy, your guide will take you to almost 100 sites of celebrity deaths, scandals and film locations. Imagine the scene for those who found River Phoenix or caught George Michael ‘in the act’? Would you be aghast or agog? After all those celeb spectacles check into the Renaissance Hollywood, which has the Academy Awards Kodak Theatre as part of its complex — maybe you’ll even see a living celebrity.

What happens when you bury a body above ground? Find out on the New Orleans Cemetery and Gris-Gris tour. Keep looking over your shoulder for ghosts at the most haunted cemetery in the Big Easy to see a voodoo queen’s tomb. Or dare to cast a spell using ingredients from your souvenir bag. Inspired by voodoo history, have a look in the shops near the boutique Bienville Hotel in New Orlean’s trendy French Quarter. Try a few lines of Creole in the bars and restaurants on nearby Bourbon Street.

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