Its past installments have found attendees stealthing their way through a Victorian home and embarking on a Blade Runner-esque bounty hunt. And now this celebrated immersive horror theater event will once again return for an event at a nearly 150-year-old mansion.
Delusion, an interactive seasonal event that combines elements of immersive theater with a more story-based approach to a walk-through haunted house, will again take over the Phillips Mansion, an 1875 estate in Pomona. “Nocturnes & Nightmares,” which opens on September 21 and runs well past Halloween, takes a somewhat meta approach to the ongoing saga. The anthology story centers around the Author, a mysterious figure who made all previous Delusion installments a reality—and though he’s gone missing, his ghastly creations haven’t.
Director and action coordinator Jon Braver, who hatched Delusion in 2011, has again teamed up with the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride producers Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group for a staging that bills itself as a terrifying tapestry of stories.
You can also float between rooms of the mansion to find some lingering story threads and lots of eerie puppets—plus music, merch, food and drinks—as part of the Spectral Soiree component of the evening. You can upgrade to a VIP ticket to get a peek behind the scenes and interact with actors and crew, and even opt to play a corpose if you’d like.
Tickets, which start at $90, go on sale soon.
