GOT mask? You don’t have to wait till Friday to start trick-or-treating: The Halloween fun starts today. From mildly ghoulish to full-on frightening, here’s where the action is all week long:
BARELY SCARY
Ghouls with guitars make boo-tiful music at a kids’ Halloween show starring Los Straitjackets and Uncle Rock. Along with their slick dance moves, twangy tunes and pyrotechnics, Los Straitjackets perform with masks. Wonder what Uncle Rock will wear? Today, doors open at 2 p.m., show starts at 3, $10.
Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave., at Sterling Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn; 718-230-0236.
Give your jack-o’-lantern a seafaring send-off at the Central Park Pumpkin Sail. Bring your pre-carved gourds (between 5 and 10 pounds) to the Harlem Meer for an evening cruise, complete with ghost tales and music.
Tomorrow, 4 to 7 p.m., free; bring pumpkins by 6 for a 6:30 sail. Dana Discovery Center, inside the park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox avenues; 212-860-1370.
You don’t have to be a T. rex to join BAM Before Time, the seventh annual installment of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMboo! Then again, it wouldn’t hurt. Look for a fossil dig, carnival games, arts and crafts and a moon bounce for burning off that free candy-induced sugar high.
Friday, 4 to 7 p.m., free. 30 Lafayette Ave., Fort Greene, Brooklyn; 718-636-4100.
MODERATELY MENACING
Poor Quasimodo was a nice enough guy, but his puppet incarnation in “Hunchback” is likely to give audiences a chill just the same. In this award-winning adaptation by Chicago’s Redmoon Theater, huge puppets, elaborate masks and dramatic music bring Victor Hugo’s tale to life.
Today, 2 and 7 p.m.; other times through Nov. 9. $8.75 to $35. The New Victory Theater, 209 W. 42nd St.; 646-223-3010.
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What lurks in the woods of Prospect Park? A bunch of volunteers in scary costumes ready to jump out and scare the unsuspecting, that’s what. After taking a Haunted Walk, freaked-out hikers can hit the Haunted Carnival on the Nethermead for games, music, hay and pony rides and more.
Today, noon to 3 p.m., free. Enter from Prospect Park Southwest at 16th Street, Brooklyn; 718-965-8951.
Location, location, location! Not only is the Queens County Farm Museum’s Haunted House sitting on a circa 1697 farm, but it’s surrounded by a maze of maize – three acres of cornstalk-lined paths to get lost in.
Today, tomorrow and Friday, 4 to 7 p.m., $4 ($4 more for the maze). 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Floral Park, Queens; 718-347-3276.
TRULY TERRIFYING
Secret cemeteries, Dickensian door-knockers, hidden skeletons -the Ghosts of Greenwich Village Family Scavenger Hunt is a history lesson with a serious case of heebie-jeebies. No one under age 7, please.
Today and tomorrow, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., $18 for kids, $22 for adults. Meet at the entrance to Washington Square Park at LaGuardia Place; reservations needed: 1-877-9-GO-HUNT.
You may not think of squash as spine-tingling, but the Great Jack O’ Lantern Blaze will change your view of the veggie. Literally thousands of hand-carved pumpkins are assembled to form everything from dinosaurs to spiders; a sinister soundtrack adds some scary spice (there’s cider and muffins, too).
Nightly through Friday, 6:30 p.m.; $15 for adults, $10 for kids. Van Cortlandt Manor, South Riverside Avenue off Route 9, Croton-on-Hudson, NY; 914-631-8200.