What kind of haunted house guest are you? Blood and gore? Guts and psychological torture? New York City has plenty of that (with or without the haunted house). If you want a little elegance and steampunk with your Halloween outing, look no further than Third Rail Project's Steampunk Haunted House.
For its third year, the theme of the show is "Through the Looking Glass". A nightmarish version of the Alice in Wonderland tale. You are taken through a journey through three floors of a century-old playhouse. The experience is a mix of performance art, dance, rusty clockwork and neo-Victorian elegance.
This may not be the most terrifying haunted house in the city, but I'll place my bets that this is the most stylish.