The Covington home of artist Jeremy Johnson is a frozen menagerie. Hollow skulls cast a shade of the macabre on the dining room-turned-dissection studio.  

 Halloween is this weird holiday that rides a razor’s edge where it’s either an adult event or it’s kiddietime door-to-door. If you can’t make up your mind about whether to be juvenil  

Randy Schadel isn’t nearly as spooky in person as one might imagine. He’s jolly, gregarious and gets a big smile on his face when talking haunted houses.   

 Dive into a Halloween experience straight out of the 1970s with the Mount Healthy Haunted Hall. Handmade props and sets, a tough-to-escape blackout maze with moving walls and inventive costumes   

An acquaintance of mine despises haunts. She considers Halloween itself to be ugly and horror entertainment in general to be a symptom of first-world mental illness. If she knew the details of Waynesville’s new haunt ScareDown, she’d probably have additional objections.  

 Rusted Rivertub of Terror $16-$20. 7-11 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday; 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 31. Newport on the Levee, 101 Riverboat Row, Newport. ussnightmare.com  

Commune with the Dead $13. 8 p.m. Oct. 19 and 20. Lebanon Theatre Company, 10 S. Mechanic St., Lebanon. ltcplays.com.A magic show featuring stunts that range from funny to frightening is the cent  

 Devils Among the Corn $12-$20. 8 p.m.-midnight Fridays-Saturdays through Nov. 3. 4172 Belleview Road, Petersburg, Exit 11 off I-275. 859-322-0516 or 859-250-9790, sandylandacres.com.  This   

 Dark Rides, Darker Destinations $10-$20. Sundown to 11:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday through Oct. 27. 6070 Springboro Road, Lebanon, Exit 28 off I-71 North toward Lebanon. 937-748-2272, springborohaun  

Historic Haunt and a Barn of Blood$10-$20. Dusk to midnight Fridays and Saturdays; Dusk until 10 p.m. Sundays through Nov. 1. 5511 Township Line Road, Waynesville. scaredown.com.Set on a real, histori