Vaughn Irving wants to scare you senseless.
He’s one of the creative minds behind DC Dead, a temporary attraction for Halloween. Groups of people sign up to enter an abandoned building and must attack — or in my case, more likely run screaming from — hordes of zombies that have taken over the building. It’s an “immersive game” that is running through to Sunday November 1.
These haunted houses, scary mazes and similar events that pop up for Halloween are not something that’s done much back in my home country of England. So when I moved to the States 11 years ago they piqued my interest.
Eager to learn more about why people host them and what goes into their planning, I contacted Vaughn for an interview. We recently got dinner in Alexandria, Virginia, at the Lost Dog Cafe, where he told me all about DC Dead.
Click on the picture above or on this link to read my interview with Vaughn. And please appreciate that I opted against using a bunch of Halloween puns and lame jokes in this post (e.g. “It’s a scream! Fun for all the guys and ghouls!”).