2025 Haunted Library Interest Form

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Event Description

Date: Saturday, October 25
Location: DeForest Area Public Library - Starts in Studio 203

Arrival Time: 12:00 pm at the latest. Please come already in costume and makeup.
Dress Rehearsal: 12:30 pm 
Acting Time: 1 pm - 4 pm (there will be a short break part way through)
Cleanup: 4 pm - 5 pm

Teens and adults are invited to an eerie afternoon at the DeForest Area Public Library!

Attendees will make their way through the mysterious basement full of frightening Halloween displays. Will you survive? Dress spookily if you dare!

The Haunted Library is not for the faint of heart. It is recommended for sixth graders and older. Younger visitors may attend at the discretion of and accompanied by their parents or guardians. View a sample video from our 2024 Carnival of Doom: Ascendium Education Group's Room.

Please note that the Haunted Library will include strobe lights, fog machines, fake blood, and other scary special effects and scenes. 

If you are unable to decorate and staff a room, but would still like to participate fill out this form: 2025 Haunted Library Interest Form - Alternate Opportunities.

 

2025 Theme & Map

The theme this year is Living Dead/Undead

The Library will be creating a cemetery and a wall of souls. 

Here are a few suggestions for other areas (you are not limited to these suggestions, please do not duplicate what the library is planning):

  • Frankenstein's Monster
  • Living Dolls
  • Vampires/Dracula
  • Morgue
  • Autopsy
  • Poltergeist/haunting
  • Mummies/tomb
  • Catacombs

Here is a link (Ctrl + Click/Cmd + Click to open in a new tab) to the Map of the Lower Level of the Haunted Library. Images of the rooms are linked in the map. Please refer to this when deciding which space you would like to select. 

 

Business and Contact Information

Top 3 Decorating Ideas for Your Area:

Each participating group will be responsible for:

  • Making/providing your own decorations and supplies (ceiling hooks, tape, fishing line, fabric, ...) before the event
  • Decorating your assigned area between October 20 and October 24 (by appointment, sign up to follow)
  • Staffing your area with actors in full makeup and costume the day of the event (October 25)
  • Providing your own costumes and makeup.
  • Cleaning up your area after the event from 4pm-5pm (October 25)
     
Please list your top three ideas for your area in order of preference. Room themes are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.