Chills & Thrills! Halloween Party Ideas for Adults

Get your friends and family together for a tricky treat of a party! Browse 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.

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 rats. To complete the look, line up small flameless candles along each step.

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, and you could even mix in fans or streamers 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!

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.

A graveyard is perfect for an adult Halloween party. It's creepy and spine-tingling at night, and you can add cemetery fences and a variety of tombstone decorations for a spooky effect. It's not all scary – to tickle their funny bones, this skeleton decoration is positioned to look like he's just kicking back and enjoying the sun.