Busch Gardens has added a new haunted house to this year’s Howl-O-Scream lineup, and the newest name on the list is Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape! The park is pairing it with six haunted houses, multiple scare zones and spooky entertainment as the Halloween event rolls on.
The timing matters because Howl-O-Scream is already in its 26th year and is running on select dates through Oct. 31. For people looking up Bruno Mars Tampa and then landing on the park’s Halloween season, this is the part that changes the visit: a fresh maze, a theme built around Creatures of the Night, and a short-window run that makes each night count.
The new house is not the only addition. Busch Gardens is also pushing smaller scares into the mix this year with miniature haunts, including the Bloody Mary Bathroom. That adds a different kind of stop between the larger houses and scare zones, giving the event a tighter, more layered feel than a single headline attraction would suggest.
That is the point of the update. The park is presenting this season as part of an ongoing spooky evolution, but the change is concrete rather than abstract: a new haunted house, smaller haunts and a lineup built to keep the experience moving from one fright to the next. The structure is familiar, but the details are what make this year feel newly assembled instead of simply repeated.
For visitors, the answer is straightforward. Howl-O-Scream is not waiting for a later reveal or a second wave of changes. It is open now on select dates through Oct. 31, with Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape! folded into the full Halloween package. What remains unresolved is not whether there is something new to see, but how much of the experience can be taken in before the season closes.
