Devil’s Night is drawing nigh, and fun events are taking place around the Seacoast.

The Seacoast has always had a powerful and somewhat disturbing appetite for Halloween debauchery, and this year will be no exception. It’s a time of ghastly jack-o’-lanterns, horrific haunted houses, raucous costume parties, terrifying parades and processions, and cavities. If you still don’t know what you’re going to be, it’s about damn time you made up your mind, because a number of fantastic Halloween events are right around the corner. Beware.

Portsmouth Halloween Parade: Now in its 17th year, this parade is the ultimate celebration of Halloween, drawing hundreds of costumed revelers to Portsmouth. The dreadful horde will congregate in Prescott Park on Monday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m., then begin dancing, gamboling and marching the streets to the thundering beat of drums. Join the procession or watch from the curb during this grassroots community event. And don’t forget about the last couple of parade fundraisers, including Undead Beat Night at The Press Room on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 7 to 9 p.m., and a concert with the Jumbo Circus Peanuts at the Portsmouth VFW on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. Visit www.spookyportsmouth.com.

Dover Zombie Walk: The Dover Zombie Walk has become a highly anticipated annual event for all fans of the living dead. For one afternoon, ordinary citizens become walking carcasses, merrily drooling blood and dragging their decaying limbs through downtown Dover. The sixth annual walk takes place on Saturday, Oct. 29, beginning at 2 p.m. outside the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce at 550 Central Ave. The zombies will lurch and stagger to Adelle’s Coffee House for a hideous feast of Jell-O brains, a costume contest, and zombie socializing. Visit www.doverzombiewalk.wordpress.com.

Hotel from Hell: The annex mansion and grounds of the normally posh and proper Governor’s Inn in Rochester has transformed into a house of horrors, complete with elaborate sets and a cast of 30 live actors. Guests are invited to take a tour, posing as a prospective buyer of this estranged estate, which has been closed for decades—or so the story goes. Tours take place every night through Halloween at 78 Wakefield St., beginning at 6:30 p.m. and running until 9 p.m. on weekdays, 11 p.m. on weekends. Tickets are $14, available at the cemetery gate. But be warned: the Hotel from Hell is not recommended for children under 12.

Rochester Zombie Walk: Dover is not the only Seacoast city where rotting corpses emerge from their graves this time of year. Rochester Main Street’s second annual Zombie Walk takes place on Friday, Oct. 28, beginning at 6:45 p.m. at the Union Street parking lot. The undead mass of decrepit teens and adults will get a police escort down North Main and South Main streets, concluding at the Common with DJ Jon Cox. Call 603-330-3208.

MORE FRIGHTS  AND FUN

Lady Luck Burlesque:  “Tricks n Treats,” Oct. 27 at 8 p.m., Portsmouth Gaslight Co., Market St., Portsmouth.
Children's Museum Mask-Making Demonstration: Manuel Abeiro Horta and Modesto Horta, a team of mask-makers from Tocuaro, Mexico, will be on hand demonstrating their traditional process, Friday, Oct. 28, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Children’s Museum of NH, 6 Washington St., Dover.
Rocky Horror Picture Show, an annual tradition, with all the expected shenanigans plus prizes for best costumes, Friday, Oct. 28 at 11 p.m., $15 includes prop bag, Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, 978-462-7336.
Eliot Halloween Party and Haunted Trail: Games, refreshments and a costume contest, with prizes in each age group, including adults. Also, a walk through the haunted woods behind the school, suggested donation of $1 per person or $5 per family. The party takes place on Friday, Oct. 28, at Eliot Elementary School, with special times for each age group: 5:30-6:45 p.m. for children in kindergarten or younger; 7-8:15 p.m. for children in grades 1-3; and the trail will be open for children in grades 4-8 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Ghosts, Souls, Spirits and Guides: A. J. Kitt, founder of the Seacoast Paranormal Research Group and the Kitt Research Initiative, and Isabeau Esby, internationally known psychic medium, discuss the history, the research, and the realities of paranormal phenomena, and what possibilities may lurk in any home, business, or graveyard! Friday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m., York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Road.
Ghosts on the Banke: The annual not-too-scary family event offers safe trick or treating, house to historic house, with lanes lit by carved jack-o’-lanterns, a bonfire, Halloween refreshments and tales of wayward pirates, sea captains and characters from Portsmouth past, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, 6-8 p.m., $6 for adults, children 4 and under free, Strawbery Banke Museum, Hancock St., Portsmouth, 603-433-1100.
Not-So-Spooky Spectacular at Children's Museum: Focus on fun, not fright, wth science experiments, bat cave, costume shop, pumpkin projects and non-food trick-or-treating, Saturday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, Dover.
Halloween Harvest on the Farm: Get your costumes on, bring your carved pumpkins and join in potato races, pumpkin bowling, cider making and more  at the Raitt Homestead Farm Museum, where the Halloween Harvest is waiting for the entire family on Saturday, Oct. 29, 4-7pm, $3 per person includes a tractor or hay wagon ride, 2077 State Road, Eliot.
An Old-Fashioned Halloween Haunted House: The Col. Paul Wentworth House will be decorated for Halloween with mildly scary scenes, strobe light and eerie sounds, appropriate for school-age children.  Activities will include ghost stories read aloud upstairs in the spooky attic; a well-seasoned fortune teller; and outdoor games like toss the ring on the witch’s hat, toss the bones in the cauldron, and douse the candle in the jack-o’-lantern. Refreshments will be available, and all are urged to come in costume, Sunday, Oct. 30, 5-9 p.m., Col. Paul Wentworth House, Water Street, Rollinsford. Admission is free, but donations or memberships greatly appreciated, www.paulwentworthhouse.org.