🧦 Puppet seance | Hella Halloween | Glow party | Eminem-ish | Panties play | Hot rods | $1 oysters

I LOVE ME some Halloween fun, but I've always preferred my thrills in the form of high-glycemic treats that send my pancreas into a tingling, vertiginous swoon. That's changing this year, though. This List scares up shocker shows, spooky attractions, and fearsome film fests to really get the blood flowing. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍

🔥 Hot ticket: Comics work the swing shift during Laugh After Dark Oct. 27-29 in the Arts District.

scare tactics

Urban Death Vegas: Get shrieky and freaky in this evening of shamelessly shocking vignettes.

Opens Oct. 4 ✦ Vegas Theatre Company

➤ Also: Warehouse weirdoes go wild in Universal Horror Unleashed through October at Area 15 ✦ Terrors get twisted at Halloween Maze through October ✦ A cauldron of teen angst boils over in The Craft'd Oct. 3-5 at Majestic Repertory Theatre ✦ Tricked-out floats and costumed carousers cruise at Parade of Mischief Oct. 3-4 in Downtown Summerlin ✦ Piecing It Together's screening of Good Boy Oct. 3 at Downtown Cinemas is doggone scary ✦ Such antici ... pation for the 40th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Oct. 4 at Tropicana Cinemas ✦ Scream over horror's screen icons at Nightmare in Vegas Horror Convention Oct. 4-5 at the Silverton ✦ RIP into headstone history at grave tour Tombstone Tales Oct. 4 at Woodlawn Cemetery ✦ Count on getting the creeps at 31 Screams opening Oct. 3 at Tivoli Village ✦ Summon spirits with strings attached at Loose Thread's Puppet Seance Oct. 4 at Vegas Theatre Company ✦ Fear is the filling in Sweeney Todd-inspired Empanada Loca opening Oct. 5 at Majestic Repertory Theater.▼

lighten up already

Rise: The feelgood lantern festival gets lit with a full concert slate.

Oct. 3-5 ✦ Jean Dry Lake Bed

➤ Also: You'll feel peckish at Houston TX Hot Chicken's Bass Kitchen Oct. 3 ✦ DLVEC is an irie island at Reggae Rise Up Oct. 3-5 ✦ Cumbia and indie sleaze crash crazily at Swan Dive's Club Bizarre Oct. 3 ✦ Axe-throwing, band-jamming mountain highs abound at Lee Canyon's Fall Fest Oct. 4 ✦ DJs drop rave beats over sinuous rhythms at Cumbiatron Oct. 4 at House of Blues ✦ Glow Ride Oct. 4 at The Center is a wheel bright idea ✦ Pop into literal house o' vinyl Wax Trax Records for a shot at tix to Best Friends Forever Oct. 10-12 at DLVEC.▼

poll positions

Suffs: A song-suffused celebration of women rocking the vote.

Oct. 7-12 ✦ The Smith Center

➤ Also: I'll be brief: The Underpants Oct. 3-5 at UNLV ✦ Ooh-wee-ooh he looks like just Buddy Holly at Winter Dance Party Oct. 3-5 at South Point ✦ Celestial bodies sync in Orbit Oct. 3 at UNLV ✦ Fulfill carnie desires in the backlot at Tilt!—A Circus Thrill Ride Oct. 4 at UNLV ✦ Kid in the Hall Kevin McDonald is a Superstar Oct. 4 at Mom's Basement Theatre ✦ The unreal Slim Shady stands up at Eminem tribute This is Stan Oct. 4 at Notoriety ✦ Laughter's the best medicine at Pharmageddon Oct. 4 at The Space ✦ The bidi bibi bomb: A Tribute to Selena Oct. 4 at Lorenzi Park ✦ Cinematic psychedelic duo Movie Club Oct. 4 flicks into The Griffin ✦ Bounce to ska and punk from Japan's Eastbay and Junky58% Oct. 7 at Red Dwarf.▼

a brush with dtlv

First Friday: Art, music, food, plus you can wear a sweater.

Oct. 3 ✦ Arts District

➤ Also: You auto enjoy Henderson Hot Rod Days Oct. 3-4 on Water Street ✦ Book wreck-omendation: Amanda Uhle's Destroy This House Oct. 3 at The Writer's Block ✦ You'll be melon-ballin' at pumpkin-spiced UnCommon Harvest Oct. 3-5 ✦ Paging DIY publishers to CoZi Fest Oct. 4 at East Las Vegas Library ✦ Check out the Summerlin Library Fall Festival Oct. 4 ✦ Left of Center launches member season at its Fall Festival Oct. 4 ✦ Meteors are the medium at Extraterrestrial Postcards Oct. 4 at Dale Etheridge Planetarium ✦ Liquid lunch is on tap at Double Down's Day Drinking Society Oct. 5 ✦ Hockey fan? You're in puck at the VGK Fan Fest Oct. 5 in Downtown Summerlin ✦ Be well-red at this vampy Book & Wine Pairing Oct. 7 at Crush Pad.▼

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🌭 Food and Loathing

Pub 365 is the host with the prost at its Oktoberfest Beer Dinner Oct. 3 ✦ Big Dog's Dogtoberfest Oct. 4 boasts brats and tail-wagging ales ✦ The wine is golden at the VGK-inspired Foley Family Wine Dinner Oct. 5 at Grape Vine ✦ Culture and cuisine converge in Galeón: A Filipino Spanish Pop-Up Dinner Oct. 7 at Saffron ✦ Meat up at Fogo de Chao for a bold Cakebread Dinner Oct. 9 ✦ Sip through five decades of viniculture at Wine Through the Ages Oct. 9 at Delilah ✦ Scare up seasonal spirits during Nightmare on Spring Mountain through October at Sand Dollar Lounge. – curated by Bob Barnes, who dishes about these and more at FoodandLoathing.Vegas

🍺 The Happiest Hours

You won't have to shell out a lot at these oyster happy hours: $2 oysters and $8 wine at Luckley Tavern & Grill ✦ Shucking great deal: $1 oysters, $7 dips, and $5 beer at Palate ✦ Weekday $2 oysters sounds like some Proper Eats ✦ Sweet deal at Sugarcane: $2.50 oysters and $6 shrimp cockails ✦ Half-off oysters and wine are the daily catch at Ocean Prime ✦ Dive into the lap of lux at Aqua with $5 oysters, $8 deviled eggs, and $28 kaluga blinis. – curated by Andrew Morgan, who writes about these and more at Happy Hour Vegas

⌨️ The Junk Drawer

No better way to get in a writing mood than peeping writing-spot porn (what, no mechanical keyboards!?) ✦ Sad and antithetical to The List ethos but, yeah, how to really live like a local ✦ A respectable philosophical argument in favor of taking even more selfies ✦ So a physicist, a mathematician, and an engineer check into a hotel ...

monster energy

The Wake: A month of celluloid screams, from cult classics to hidden horror gems.

Through October ✦ The Beverly Theater

theatrical release

Cockroach Cabaret: This scandalous, secret variety show pops off every First Friday.

Oct. 3 ✦ Vegas Theatre Company

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