With the Halloween season upon us and a huge choice of spooktacular events to choose from, we've rounded up this year's highlights at the UK's theme parks and beyond into... The Ultimate Guide to Halloween 2018.

All of the most popular theme parks are as usual offering a comprehensive array of frightful fun, including Scarefest at Alton Towers, Fright Nights at Thorpe Park, Howl'o'ween at Chessington World of Adventures, Brick or Treat at LEGOLAND Windsor and More Treat Than Trick at Drayton Manor.

The UK’s original pleasure park Dreamland Margate transforms into a world of nightmares with Screamland, Vampire Pleasure Beach returns to Blackpool Pleasure Beach as part of a week of Halloween activities, Fear Island takes over Fantasy Island, and Twinlakes Park will become a Family Scream Park by day and an Xtreme Scream Park by night.

There is also a great lineup of family Halloween events at many other theme parks in the UK including Paultons Park, Lightwater Valley, Flamingo Land, Pleasurewood Hills and Oakwood.

Looking beyond the UK's theme parks, Tulleys Shocktober Fest is the biggest and best of the dedicated scare attractions around the UK and Warwick Castle becomes The Haunted Castle for Halloween.

Paultons Park has completely revamped their Halloween offering for 2018, introducing a new family-friendly walkthrough attraction and a new live show, as well as fun character meet and greets, a fancy dress competition and decorating the theme park with over 4000 pumpkins!

We were invited to spend a day at the park, taking in both of the new additions and enjoying all the rides and attractions.

Warwick Castle once again becomes The Haunted Castle for Halloween in 2018, and we were invited to the first day of the event to experience the highlights of this year's unearthly line-up.

Warwick Castle has packaged their Halloween attractions into 3 categories; Scaredy Squires (suitable for all ages), Daring Dukes (10 years +) and Brave Knights (12 years +).

The Howl 'Scream Park' has returned to Mead Open Farm with two brand new horror mazes for 2018.

The Howl is now in its third year but this was to be our very first visit, and knowing that the attraction has been created by the same team as Tulleys Shocktober Fest meant we were assured of a great night.

Back for its fourth year, this chilling and thrilling event immerses visitors in a frightening world of interactive scare mazes set to horrify and haunt even the darkest soul.

We were invited to Dreamland Margate for a special preview event on Saturday 13th October 2018, and are delighted to report that Screamland once again offers a fantastic collection of theatrical attractions that are all completely original, highly creative and packed with scares.