Haunted houses can be distinguished from regular houses by the enormous doggie doors installed for pet werewolves and the conspicuous omission of living rooms in their floor plans. Explore eerie architecture with today’s Groupon to Fears Gate in Oxnard. Choose between the following options:

• For $10, you get two tickets to the haunted house (a $20 value).
• For $14, you get a ticket package for two (a $29 total value) that includes:
  • Two tickets to the haunted house (a $20 value).
  • Two tickets to the simulated coffin ride (a $9 value).

Bone-chilling wails emanate from all corners of the Fears Gate haunted house, whose ghastly residents indulge their visitors’ fear receptors with a morbid menagerie of performances and special effects. As guests explore the haunted mansion’s eerie avenues, an expert team of part-time boogiemen and banshees welcomes them with spontaneous greetings and terrifying impressions of aging rock stars. In addition to these daunting evening escapades through the possessed residence, Fears Gate hosts a daytime series of lights-on tours from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays for younger audiences and those willing to conquer their irrational fear of light bulbs.

Those who escape the haunted house alive can opt for a simulated tour in the double-wide coffin, which hurtles riders forth on an adventure designed to model a harrowing trip from the morgue to the gravesite. Couples must keep heads inside the coffin at all times to avoid decapitation while their hot-rod hearse contends with such terrifying traffic perils as gravedigger crossings and phantom parking meters.