This is a parkwide concept. Be warned, I put quite bit of thought into this.
A HoS event where everything is themed around Edgar Allan poe.
England: Nevermore
You enter the park and see the streets filled with Raven's(I know we got them
and echoing quotes from stories from Poe.Lots blacklighting and Red. Maybe use black light paint to scrawl lines from Edgar Allan Poe's greatest stories all over the buildings.
The idea is to represent how the horrifying tales from poe have been ripped off the pages into the world. Actors would go around as 19th century people made of flesh and paper, covered with ink and blood. Here is where the pages go from fiction to reality.
Heatherdowns: The Black Cat
In the darkness lurks the spirits of animals lost. The darkness echoes with the sounds of ghost horses, dogs, and more importantly...The Black cat.
This Area is simply an ambient and creepy area. Lights as of the eyes of various animals and other eerie looking things.
Ireland:The Hop-Frog
A tortured and abused hunchback known as The Hop-Frog gets his revenge on the people who have wronged him. Best hope you're not on that list.
This area would have actors going around, less of a scare area and more creepy. Also, Hop- Frog would have his own show in the Abbeystone very similar to Fiends and Monster Stomp.
In Ireland there is also The Pit and the Pendulum maze. This bloodsoaked maze of horror pits you against against the devious and sadistic minds behind the carnival-like torture of the Inquisition.
Wild Reserve:The Gold Bug
Legend has it, there is treasure in the woods. Will you find it or die trying.
A rather cool but not altogether creepy area, meant as easy passage and cool theming.
France: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Inspectors are on the look out for the culprit behind the recent grissly murders in town. Are you a suspect or the next victim?
Lots of death and chaos. Inspectors chasing you around, killers doing the same a la Ripper Row
Here, the maze Cask of Amontillado is buried, where you venture down into the cellar of Montressor, many years after his entrapment of the doomed Fortunato. It seems Montressor's bloodlust could not be stopped up, like his wine. Can you survive?
Also, wine and other alcholoic beverages would be served including Amontillado.
New France:Liegia and the Conquerer Worm
Based on a story and a poem, this area feature renimated corpses seeking revenge and The Conquerer Worm, a demonic creature much like a worm who eats mainly mimes. However, when food is scarce, the Conquerer worm branches out.
Rhinefield/Okotberfest: The Facts in the Case of M. Vlademar
What happens when the dying is hypnotised just before death? The doctors here are trying to figure out the same thing. But, they need new subjects. care to volunteer?
An area with lots of undead/insane doctors and psychiatrists trying to carry on their experiments.
Mazes here include
Fall of the House of Usher (Bitten House)
Visit the infamous mansion of usher, where the undead and malicious spirits wait.
The Imp of the Perverse ( new maze area)
This creature influences many to do wrong for the sake doing things wrong. murder, torture, and many other gruesome things can be explained by the Imp. Will you be another example?
Morella (RoaE area)
Poor Morella. Once she was loved by her husband, but then he began to fall out of love... to the point where he couldnt look or touch her. When she died, he couldnt bear to deal with his daughter who looked just like her. When he went to baptise her, he named her after his wife, and his daughter died the same day. His wife's tomb now lay vacant. The vengeful spirit is now out for blood.
San Marco/Festa Italia: Masque of Red Death
The Red Death ravages the land, and makes a special appearance at a very special gala.
Lots of masquerade/plague themed actors walking around. lots of blood.
This is an idea I had originally just for a maze, but I realized there is enough theming to make a whole event off of it. Will it be done? probably not. But a maze incorporating these ideas would be awesome!
