Horror films often draw inspiration from real-life situations and scenarios, oftentimes inspiring fear in the viewer the next time they experience anything familiar to the terrifying journey. One of ...

From time-travel themes to rooms inspired by the city’s prisons and subways, escape rooms are quickly filling up this summer with locals and out-of-towners alike. On Friday, the new film “Escape Room: ...

Escape rooms fit perfectly into the growing trend of "dailycations," where foreigners try everyday activities that locals enjoy. Recognizing this demand, escape room companies — and even the ...

MARIETTA, Ga. - The scariest stories are the ones based in fact, and few chapters in history are as chilling as the reign of terror caused by Jack the Ripper. And now ...

On a dark and rainy night two days before Halloween, I entered a small, square waiting room in the basement of a nondescript commercial building in Long Island City, Queens, alongside three ...

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The anxiety was mounting. Elephantine footsteps sounded steadily, like war drums on the approach. It was hard to tell if the temperature was actually climbing, or if the sweat on my brow was due ...

The brainiacs of New York City just scored one more place where they can flex their gray matter. The Escape Game in Midtown Manhattan is the latest riff on the classic escape room and it’s got a ...

SAN JOSE — A former bank branch in San Jose might become the location of a new escape room that would be a unique venue in this section of the Bay Area’s largest city, public documents show. The ...

SAN RAMON — An escape room and other tenants have landed at San Ramon’s City Center Bishop Ranch, marking a fresh batch of leases for the bustling mixed-use downtown complex. Escapology, Kohler, Warby ...

Two seasoned restaurateurs have married their experience in the industry with their love for escape rooms, opening the culinary-themed Esscape Room in Long Island City — which is centered on a ...