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“The best job I ever had was working for Halloween Horror Nights,” says Chris Louis, co-founder and production manager of Scream n’ Stream. In any other year, he’d be going head-to-head with Universal’s annual extravaganza. In any other year, however, there wouldn’t be a Scream n’ Stream. But it has …

I didn’t even make it out of the airport before I saw the t-shirts. Dracula. Demodogs. The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. Oh my. It’s time, once again, for Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights, where the syrupy fog rolls in and the pizza fries sell like hotcakes. Ten new haunted houses. Five …

Nothing gets under my skin like the syrupy perfume of fog juice. It’s a conditioned response that tells the pit in my stomach that an unholy night is falling, where the shadows stretch into sinister shapes, chainsaws beckon like gas-fed cicadas and lines creep on for all eternity. That smell …