Haunted spectacle

Danse Macabre

Fall 2024

A haunted spectacle full of dark twists


In the fall of 2024, Efteling will open an attraction on the site where the Spookslot Haunted House used to be, where you'll be scared like never before: Danse Macabre. Enter the thrilling waiting journey and find your way to the abbey. Take a seat in one of the choir pews and experience a never-before-seen ghostly spectacle set to macabre music. The attraction will become part of the Huyverwoud, where you'll also find dining locations like In den Swarte Kat and the Koetshuys, a souvenir shop, and matching entertainment.

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Making-of Danse Macabre


In this fifth episode, we reach the peak and witness the dismantling of the scaffolding around the abbey. At great heights, we observe the numerous embellishments of the eerie attraction building. In the waiting journey, the completion of the realm of the dead approaches. Elsewhere in Efteling, the residents of the new attraction and the mysterious creepy Huyverwoud forest are taking shape.

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