It’s the Catskills Halloween Festival, the largest free Halloween festival of its kind in the Eastern United States!
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We’re a Halloween Festival, a Steampunk Festival, an October Rumbustification, and a Gigantic Excuse To Eat Candy And Buy Tremendously Cool Things. Whichever you like most (go ahead, have it all!) – we’ve got it…and a Giant Robot, too!
We’ve got live entertainment, panels, discussions, dancing, Halloween rock, spooky cocktails, and October activities all weekend!
And you’ll really love staying at Blackthorne Resort this Halloween season, if you do. That’s at 518-634-2541.
Can you really come by for free all weekend? Yep. You can get VIP tix if you want, but we’re ready to show you a full festival/convention for the price of…zero dollars. COME ON AND ENJOY OUR SPOOKY CELEBRATION!
Over the past few years, we Autumn People have seen a renaissance: markets cropping up across the land, bursting with strange and splendid wares, dynamic performances, riveting discussions, delicious food, and gatherings of delightfully unusual humans. And more and more, we’re seeking alternatives to the crowded chaos of Salem in October.
(The wonderful, amazing, inimitable, but CROWDED chaos of Salem.)
That’s where we come in.
Cogs and Crowns specializes in creating unforgettable immersive events filled with oddities, artistry, and adventure. We gather the makers, performers, and curious minds from every corner of the alternative universe: steampunk inventors, gothic romantics, Renaissance revelers, fae-touched weirdlings, vintage weirdos, and all flavors of the gloriously unorthodox. This is your playground.
Blackthorne has that real Catskills Resort heart. You’ll know it when you see it.
🦇 A Halloween Market for the Rest of Us
We’re tired of mass-produced everything. To be perfectly honest, we’re even a little tired of the stores we usually go to when we’re tired of everything else.
So we invented this GIGANTIC ALTERNATIVE/HALLOWEEN MARKET and YOU’RE invited!
We’re proud to welcome a spectacular array of builders, crafters, inventors, performers, writers, and mischief-makers.
So what is this event, exactly?
- A Massive Misfit Market
- A Halloween Vacation in the Catskills
- A Steampunk/Nerd/Goth/Alt Festival
- A Vendor & Oddities Expo filled with wild wonders
- A Welcoming, Weird Weekend for anyone who loves the strange and sublime
- A place that really likes lists
- Candyland in the Catskills
- No, we didn’t use AI. We might, however, have done a seance or two to get these.
It’s all of that—and more.
This is your chance to immerse yourself in a fairyland of difference, a celebration of all things extraordinary. It’s three days of pure joy, crisp mountain air, glowing pumpkins, warm cider, and people who truly get you.
👻 The Biggest Halloween in the Catskills
Do you love to create, collect, treasure, buy, or sell the wonderfully weird? Would you love to meet others who feel the same? Want a weekend of live entertainment, eccentric characters, dazzling goods, and a break from the mundane?
Then yes—you’ve found your people.
To all the beloved freaks, makers, witches, dreamers, collectors, and curators of curiosity: Welcome home.
Every year, Blackthorne Resort’s Halloween brings together an extraordinary crowd of kindred souls. Whether you want to vend your marvels or simply soak in the spooky splendor, join us.
Come and be welcome.
Catskills Halloween Vendor & Oddities Market
And don’t forget to see us this June at OdditoriumCarnival.com!