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October 27, 2025
Hello, and welcome to spooky season. I’ll be your guide around a few Chicago-area stops. Now, before we get started, I should warn you, the following contains eerie puppets, ghost stories, and the paranormal.
For our first stop, we stroll past Steppenwolf, bypassing their cozy Front Bar on a drizzly Saturday afternoon, skipping their front doors and the people heading in to see Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, and instead head to a sneaky door settled between the entrance and exit to the Steppenwolf-adjacent parking garage. Inside the Merle Reskin Space at Steppenwolf, Rough House Puppet Arts has set up camp for House of the Exquisite Corpse V: Blood & Puppets, a multi-room, immersive puppet haunted house (through Nov. 1).
