Halloween Party Ideas for Grown-Up Chills & Thrills

Get your friends and family together for a tricky treat of a party! Flip through the photos above to find inspiring ideas on how to set up decorations, tableware and barware to craft an unforgettable monster bash. Get everything you need below to create each look.

Transform the outside of your house into an evil entrance to send shivers up their spines right off the bat! Surround the entryway with graves and chains, grim reapers and spooky webs. Add lifelike black ravens, bats and creepy spiders that are sure to make their skin crawl.

To dress up the front hallway for your fright night, stretch faux spider webs over a painting to make it look creepy, and place black ravens and bats all around the room. A realistic human skull and moss decorations create a ghoulish feel, while damask candles cast an eerie glow that will warn guests to beware!

Be the ghostess with the mostess with a Shocktails Bar showcasing screamingly scrumptious thirst-chasers. Create the backdrop with spider webbing pulled into wickedly wonderful strands. Then dress bottles in creepy fake labels, drape your bar in jute and bring on the skull glasses and goblets. Don't forget a bar sign to point the way to the libations, especially for guests in masks, wigs, veils or mummy bandages!

Your boo crew will need someplace to sit and eat during your party ... and that makes your dining room a perfect place for things that go bump in the night! Cast some webs to set the spooky scene (TIP: Get this look by seriously stretching thin sections from wall to wall, ceiling to floor or furniture, securing with Sticky Tack or thumbtacks). Coordinate hanging decorations with your table look for a dichromatic effect, and seat a fake skeleton as an extra "guest" to let everyone know the witching hour has begun.

Can't wait to creep out your friends in every corner of your haunted mansion? The snack bar should be no exception! Start with tableware that does half the table decorating for you, emblazoned with everyone's favorite harbinger of doom and dread. Need an extra hand with snacks? Set out a bowlful of candy punctuated by a ghoulish grasping hand. "Bone" appetit!

Don't be a scaredy cat! Let guests know the upstairs is off-limits during the party and decorate the staircase at the same time. We draped black cheesecloth and black leaf garland across several lower stairs and added hair-raising black cats. To complete the look, line up small flameless candles along each step.

Jeepers creepers! Including bone-chilling extras on your mantel will transform your fireplace. Limit your decorations to color schemes of orange and black so that when you lighten up the area with candles, it sets a thrilling tone. Small glitter pumpkins are perfect for offering sweet treats to party passersby.

If you're nervous about guests getting too cozy in your home, block off hallways or off-limits parts of your house with hanging decorations. It's a polite way to let guests know that some areas are not open during the party. Try hanging Halloween-themed lanterns, mixing in with fans, streamers or ghosts for a wicked display.

Let guests know in your party invitations that they'd better dress up, or else! Suggest that they coordinate in couples costumes or group costumes to make things even more interesting. Hold a costume contest during your party, and award prizes to the funniest, scariest, most original, sexiest, or most unlike their day job!

Transform your entry by creating an elegant and edgy Halloween floral arrangment. Cover a small table with a black table cover and fill a black cauldron with gothic-looking flowers and Halloween moss. You can also hang spider webs or black drapes in windows. This scary scene will have your guests very afraid right from the beginning.

If you have a large open room, hang up the Gothic Mansion Room Roll to transform the area into a haunted mansion. Set up a table with glasses and trays that are ready for serving food and drinks. Add subtly spooky decorative touches to the table with black leaf table sprinkle and black picture frames. Write mysterious quotes in your black frames to set a ghastly vibe.