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Spooktacular: The Untold Story of How a Visionary Built America's Most Legendary Horror Park-And Lost It All

Spooktacular: The Untold Story of How a Visionary Built America's Most Legendary Horror Park-And Lost It All

Bliss, Kate

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ISBN13: 9798243379380
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 10 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From whoopee cushions to nightmares. From obscurity to empire. From triumph to collapse.
This is the untold story of how a man with a joke shop background became the architect of an industry-and how it all fell apart.

In 1991, on a forgotten farm in Massachusetts, David Bertolino did something no one had ever done before. He didn't just build a haunted house. He didn't simply create a seasonal attraction. He revolutionized entertainment itself, creating the first professionally executed horror theme park that would reshape American culture and inspire a multi-billion-dollar industry.

Within a decade, Spooky World attracted celebrities like Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, and Tom Savini. It pioneered attractions so sophisticated they became industry standards. It proved that fear could be productized, commercialized, and delivered with artistic integrity. It demonstrated what one person's vision could accomplish.

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