Drayton Manor has confirmed that the G-Force roller coaster has now been retired from the theme park.

Spring 2019 will see the opening of a spooktacular new ride at LEGOLAND Windsor: Haunted House Monster Party.

Guests will be invited to join the frightfully friendly Vampire for a monster party at his spooky new haunted home to celebrate his arrival in the LEGOLAND neighbourhood.

Young party guests will be greeted by joke-telling LEGO gargoyles and talking statues, LEGO bunting, banners and balloons.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is providing the ultimate thrill this Halloween with a frighteningly good drive-in cinema alongside Vampire Pleasure Beach and a programme of fang-tastic events and activities.

Screening three horror classics, guests are invited to enjoy the thrills, spills and screams at the popular theme park, all from the comfort of their own car. Opening with spooky thriller, Nightmare on Elm Street, visitors simply tune into the radio frequency given on arrival and prepare for a scare.

Alton Towers has confirmed that a brand new attraction will open within the theme park in 2019, The Alton Towers Dungeon.

The Dungeons invite you to delve into horrible history. Participants come face to face with live actors who provide laughs, scares and shocks through mini interactive shows and sometimes rides. There are elements of theatre, lots of jokes and plenty of special effects, plus historical storytelling by the iconic characters themselves.

Alton Towers offered us a VIP experience at this year's Scarefest and with a brand new fourth live action scare maze in 2018 we gladly accepted.

The theme park is open 10am - 9pm every day throughout the event - giving you a whole 11 hours of scares. When night falls, it's an incredible opportunity to experience the best rides at Alton Towers in the dark, including Wicker Man.

Alton Towers Scarefest is the most well-rounded Halloween event at a UK theme park, with something for all ages and levels of fright, combined with a world-class collection of roller coasters and several other rides that are perfectly suited to the season.

The UK's ultimate Scream Park returns for 2018 with nine attractions, two live music stages, street theatre, fire pits, food stalls and bars. Tulleys Shocktober Fest is without question the biggest and best Halloween festival in the UK. 

We were invited to the press night where a host of celebrity guests and other VIPs hit the red carpet and braved the terrifying haunts.

With the promise that this year nowhere is safe, we were delighted that Thorpe Park asked us along to the Fright Nights media event.

In a substantial revamp of the lineup for 2018, there are three new horror mazes and two new character encounters, plus other improvements.

Fright Nights also provides an opportunity to ride Thorpe Park's fantastic collection of roller coasters and thrill rides in the dark.

Xtreme Scream Park, a multi-award winning event at Twinlakes Park, returns this Halloween promising to deliver more spine-tingling and startling fun, bigger and better than ever before.

This year hot from winning 'Best Halloween Attraction' at the ScareCon Awards for last year’s newest monster of a maze, The Village, the Xtreme team have been incredibly busy preparing their terrifying line-up. We were invited to the opening night on 28th September and given the VIP treatment to experience the event.

With the Halloween season upon us and a huge choice of spooktacular events to choose from, we've rounded up this year's highlights at the UK's theme parks and beyond into... The Ultimate Guide to Halloween 2018.

All of the most popular theme parks are as usual offering a comprehensive array of frightful fun, including Scarefest at Alton Towers, Fright Nights at Thorpe Park, Howl'o'ween at Chessington World of Adventures, Brick or Treat at LEGOLAND Windsor and More Treat Than Trick at Drayton Manor.

The UK’s original pleasure park Dreamland Margate transforms into a world of nightmares with Screamland, Vampire Pleasure Beach returns to Blackpool Pleasure Beach as part of a week of Halloween activities, Fear Island takes over Fantasy Island, and Twinlakes Park will become a Family Scream Park by day and an Xtreme Scream Park by night.

There is also a great lineup of family Halloween events at many other theme parks in the UK including Paultons Park, Lightwater Valley, Flamingo Land, Pleasurewood Hills and Oakwood.

Looking beyond the UK's theme parks, Tulleys Shocktober Fest is the biggest and best of the dedicated scare attractions around the UK and Warwick Castle becomes The Haunted Castle for Halloween.

Visit Chessington World of Adventures on selected dates between 13th - 31st October 2018 for a spooky Howl’o’ween trick or treat.

There’s hair-raising fun for all the family this Howl’o’ween at Chessington World of Adventures, with attractions including the award-winning Creepy Caves Unearthed plus Room on the Broom Spooky Story Time, and new for 2018 the Haunted Howl’o’ween Live Show.

Chessington also sees the return of Curse of the Lost Tomb and Trick or Treat Wood, as well as rides in the dark with last ride entry at 8pm. There’s also a series of spooky animal shows and a daily fancy dress competition.