This year, the award-winning event features six scare mazes, a show, street theatre, food and drink, and live music.

Making a return visit after several years, we were blown away with how the event has grown and developed. The scale and quality of the attractions are seriously impressive, providing a fantastic alternative to the theme park based alternatives.

The lineup:

• Noxious Alley (New for 2024) - Dare to enter the dark abandoned alleys, where Dr. Gallows' twisted dream comes to life. Once rejected by the circus, Dr. Gallows created his own filled with grotesque clowns forged in pain and bathed in toxic chemicals.
  
  
• CarnEvil Cabaret (New for 2024) - Where nightmares take centre stage, and the grotesque meets the glamorous. This show fuses burlesque, eerie illusions, and jaw-dropping stunts into a sinister spectacle like no other.
  
  
• The Full Moon Manor - Once an opulent and grand hotel, the Full Moon Manor now stands as a chilling relic of its past. After being greeted by a bellboy, the elevator awaits, ready to transport you to your room. Once you check in, you might not check out!
  
  
• Howl Valley High - The award-winning scare maze is back for another semester of screams. The students, the teachers, the football team, the cheerleaders and even the janitor are out to get any freshmen who dare to enrol at Howl Valley High. The set design within this scare maze is fantastic, which transports you into a high school setting where chaos reigns.
  
  
• Red - A terrifying take on Little Red Riding Hood which is certainly no fairy tale, with instantly recognisable scenes that have been given a dark twist. We were really impressed with how immersive this attraction was, because despite being housed entirely in farm buildings it really felt like you were wandering through a deep dark wood to find Grandma's cottage. Without giving any spoilers, we weren't disappointed by Red, Grandma or the Big Bad Wolf.
  
  
• The Shed - The event really cranked up a notch with our next experience, in an elaborate warren of junk filled rooms and with scare actors hiding in every corner. It was incredibly loud throughout, with no end of banging and crashing, along with the screams of poor victims (visitors). An excellent use of tight spaces and dim lighting created a suitable environment for some great scares. One particular scene had our group outnumbered by the actors and got the excitement levels up.
  
  
• Squealers Yard - It was soon apparent that we were to be the pigs going off to slaughter, and it begins with an amusing opener in which your group is split up into prime cuts and cheap meat. The maze of narrow alleys led us in and out of a series of indoor sections, including a horse box and a delivery van, leading up to an epic finale in a smoke and strobe filled shipping container occupied by a big guy wielding a chainsaw.

There was a great selection of food and drink on offer, and we really enjoyed the atmosphere created by the resident DJs. We were kept entertained by the roaming characters throughout the event - no where was safe!

The Howl runs on select nights until 2 November from 6pm at Mead Open Farm near Leighton Buzzard. For best value tickets, grab your mates and book online in advance at thehowl.co.uk