HALLOWEEN HAUNTS

1. THE HAUNTED TRAIL

* Hart Park, 24151 San Fernando Road, Santa Clarita

The onetime home of silent western film star William S. Hart will provide the setting for ghostly entertainment on a trek along an Old West trail haunted by the spirits of pioneers, Indians, outlaws and wild animals. The trip up Boot Hill can be made from 7 to 9 tonight. Admission $4. (805) 259-0855.

2. HALLOWED HAUNTING GROUNDS

* 4343 Babcock Ave., Studio City

Every Halloween for 25 years, freelance film editor Gary Corb has transformed his parents’ suburban frontyard into a spooky netherworld. A sophisticated sound system helps set the atmosphere in the graveyard. Shows are from 7 p.m. to midnight, Wednesday through Saturday. Free.

3. GHOSTLY GRAVEYARDS

* 8050 Block of Nagle Avenue, North Hollywood

Up and down Nagle Avenue and around the corner on Willard Street, graveyards abound. Resident David Schilling uses sound effects and strobe lights in one of the most elaborate displays. For 10 years, Schilling and friends at three other neighborhood houses have gone out of their way to make Halloween a night of terror. Open from 6 to 9 p.m. Halloween. Wheelchair accessible. Free.

4. ENCHANTED ALL HALLOW’S EVE REVEL

* 2035 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood

Visitors can wine, dine and dance through the castle-like Hollywood American Legion building, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the nonprofit environmental group Santa Monica BayKeeper. There will be dancing to live music, seances and magic acts. The witching hours are 7 p.m. to midnight Thursday and Friday. Tickets, $16.50 each, are limited. A special children’s event begins with a concert in the ballroom, storytelling, bobbing for apples and other nostalgic games from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. A limited number of children’s tickets are $13. (310) 390-3810.

5. ZOMBIE MANOR

* 1305 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena

Spirits at the Holliston United Methodist Church join in the secular fun of repulsive zombies crawling out of the crypts and leading scare-seekers through foggy swamps. Guests can risk a motion-simulator ride and navigate a maze. Shows run from 6 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for children and a “same night return” for $2, all ages. Children 10 and under must be accompanied by an adult. (626) 793-0685.

6. GREAT HORROR SCENES FROM LITERATURE

* 200 N. Michillinda Ave., Sierra Madre

Writer’s tales are woven into chilling scenes inside the Italian-style Villa del Sol d’Oro on the grounds of Alverno High School, a private Catholic girls school. There’s nothing like a little gallows humor from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a trio of witches from “Macbeth” or a bewitching scene from “The Crucible,” filled with the hysteria that fueled the Salem witch trials 300 years ago. Treats will be offered to the younger goblins with the lights on upstairs in the haunted villa from 5 to 6 p.m. Then lights go off from 6 to 7:30 p.m. tonight. On Halloween, lights will be on from 6 to 7 p.m. and off from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $1 the first hour and $3 for lights off. All proceeds benefit local charities. (626) 355-3463.

7. FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER AND HOUSE OF HORROR

* Citrus and Alosta avenues, Azusa

Halloween revelers with a taste for terror can get their fill as Azusa Community Services Department volunteers stage their annual “House of Horror,” benefiting youth sports programs, from 7 to 10 p.m., today through Thursday, and again Saturday; 6 p.m. to midnight Halloween. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children. Group rates are available for 20 or more. (818) 812-5220.

8. THE HAUNTED HOTEL

* 6706 S. Friends Ave., Whittier

Brave hotel guests will be greeted by a ghoulish bellhop and other volunteers with the Rio Hondo Chapter of the American Red Cross, who have turned this 1930s theater into a spooky hotel banquet. Visitors can see restless graveyard spirits and walk through the chef’s kitchen and meat locker. Half-hour tours run from 6 to 10 tonight and Halloween. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children. (562) 945-3944.

9. BEACON HOUSE

* 10th and Beacon streets, San Pedro

Halloween spirits come alive as Beacon House residents costumed as nightmarish characters bewitch visitors during a tour of the 1896 waterfront mansion. The chills begin on Halloween with refreshments and treats at dusk. Admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for children 12 and under.

10. POISON OAK STREET

* 1347 Oak St., Santa Monica

Adam Johnston, a freelance sound effects editor, scours garage sales and junkyards to find materials for his robotic monsters. His front and back yards are converted into a high-tech haunted house, complete with computerized special effects and 24 stereos. Open from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., Thursday and Friday. Donations only.

11. SPOOKY HOUSE

* 6701 Variel Ave., Woodland Hills

Spooks and goblins invade 8,000 square feet of the Valley Indoor Swap Meet at Bob and Dave’s eighth annual haunt as brave volunteers act out scenes in 20 rooms. Shows run from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, 3 p.m. to midnight Friday, 1 p.m. to midnight Saturday and 1 to 10 p.m. Sunday. During daylight hours, the show will be toned down for younger spirits. Admission is $7.50 at night and $5.50 earlier. Parking is free. (818) 888-8570.

12. NIGHT SCARES

* 28854 Roadside Drive, Agoura Hills

Diki Wackenstedt, entrepreneur of the Confetti costume store, and a cast of 24 nightmarish characters staff a high-tech haunted house with mazes of darkened rooms. Open 7 to 11 p.m Thursday and 7 p.m. to midnight Friday through Sunday. Admission $11. (818) 594-4049. For special group rates, call (818) 594-7649.

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* Other monster bashes include Six Flags Magic Mountain’s “Fright Fest,” (805) 255-4111; Universal Studios’ “Halloween Horror Nights,” (818) 622-4455; Universal CityWalk’s “Scared Silly,” a festival for kids with trick-or-treating from 2 to 5 p.m. today; Pacific Park on Santa Monica Pier’s “Hollywood House of Horrors’ Haunted Maze”; Queen Mary’s “Shipwreck ‘97,” (562) 435-3511; Hollywood Wax Museum’s Chamber of Horrors, on Halloween, (213) 462-5991; Kidspace Museum in Pasadena, today and Wednesday through Friday, (818) 449-9144; and the Walnut/San Dimas sheriff’s station’s Jailhouse Haunt and Halloween Faire on Halloween, (909) 599-1261.