Spooky Halloween Decorations to Haunt Your Home

Nothing sets the mood for Halloween quite like the perfect blend of eerie ambiance and spine-tingling decor. Whether you're aiming to create a creepy front yard for trick-or-treaters or a haunted living room fit for a horror movie, this guide to spooky Halloween decorations will help you bring the fright home. From fog-filled graveyards to ghostly garlands, here's how to take your Halloween decorating to the next level.

Outdoor Spooky Halloween Decorations

Build a Graveyard in Your Front Yard

Transform your lawn into a chilling cemetery using foam tombstones, plastic bones, and creepy corpses. Add in a crawling zombie or two like Grave Dweller for the perfect fright when guests least expect it.

Cover Everything in Spiderwebs

Stretch synthetic spiderwebs across bushes, fences, and porch rails. For maximum effect, place a Giant Hairy Spider crawling up a wall or peeking out of a web cocoon.

Haunted Mirror Trick

Create a haunted mirror using aged glass and transparent ghost decals, or go full nightmare mode with spooky wall décor and reflective illusions from our Spooky Decorations Collection.

Fog and Lighting Setup

Set the tone with a rolling mist from a high-output fog machine and use colored spotlights—green, orange, and purple—to cast eerie shadows.

Add Outdoor Animatronics

Want something that screams (literally)? Install animatronics like Juggaletty the Clown or the Haunted Ticket Booth that move, laugh, or jump to life when triggered.

Indoor Spooky Halloween Decorations

Skeletons and Skulls on Display

Position skulls in bookshelves, place skeletons at the dinner table, or dangle bony hands from behind curtains. These props set a perfectly macabre tone and are easy to place just about anywhere.

Floating Ghost Figures

Hang ghost props in dark corners or doorways. Use cheesecloth, white fabric, or choose realistic figures like Ghost Girl to float silently in your hallway.

Creepy Crawlies for Extra Ick

Place plastic rats, snakes, and cockroaches along baseboards, under bathroom sinks, or on food trays for an unexpected gross-out.

Miniature Haunted House Scenes

Set up a tabletop haunted house using spooky figurines, battery-powered candles, and cobwebs. These make great additions to dining tables or mantels.

Lighting and Sound Effects

Use flickering lights, thunder boxes, and sound effect machines to create atmosphere. Creepy whispers, creaking doors, or ghostly groans will make every corner feel haunted.

Spooky DIY Halloween Decor Ideas

Ghost Garland

Cut ghost shapes out of paper or fabric and string them up with fishing line to float overhead or across windows.

Cardboard Tombstones

Repurpose cardboard into weathered tombstones with painted names like “I.M. Gone” or “D. Cayed.” Add moss or dirt for realism.

Mason Jar Lanterns

Paint Mason jars with ghost or jack-o’-lantern faces, drop in LED tealights, and place along walkways, stairs, or windowsills.

Halloween Wreath with a Dark Twist

Craft a door wreath using black branches, fake cobwebs, plastic spiders, or mini skulls. Top it off with a spooky ribbon or a hanging bat.

Choose Your Fright Level

Whether you're decorating for a family-friendly bash or a horror-themed haunted house, choose decorations that suit your crowd. Keep it playful with light-up skulls and silly skeletons, or go full-throttle with animatronic monsters and fog-choked walkways.

Browse The Horror Dome’s complete Spooky Halloween Decorations collection to find high-quality props, effects, and décor that haunt well beyond Halloween night.