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“Clever, Meticulously Designed and Slyly Cast. It works on old anxieties, tweaked just enough to make something new. The most terrifying haunted houses mix the traditional with inventive showbiz intelligence” —NY Times

NIGHTMARE, New York’s most horrifying haunted house and AOL CityGuide's No. 1 rated haunted attraction in New York City is celebrating its 8th Anniversary with a return to its
origins on the Lower East Side of Manhattan at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, (107 Suffolk Street between Rivington and Delancey, NYC), September 29 through November 5, 2011.

In what is perhaps the most stylistic NIGHTMARE to date, this year’s theme is Fairy Tales. Under the direction of Creator and Co-Director Timothy Haskell, NIGHTMARE: FAIRY TALES stages the original versions of well-known (and some lesser known) fairy tales at their most gruesome and horrific.

Over the centuries many of these fables have evolved into sanitized entertainment for children, but they began as racy and violent tales intended to keep children from misbehaving.Frankenstein, Mummy and, of course, a maniac with a chainsaw.