The organisers behind the nightmare attraction are billing it as “the most disturbing chapter in Scare City's history...”

Lancashire’s abandoned Camelot theme park will be transformed into a series of terrifying worlds when Scare City 2026 opens it doors later this month.

Eight new horror zones have been created at the derelict theme park site off Park Hall Road in Charnock Richard, staged in areas previously deemed out-of-bounds to visitors.

From a blood-splattered Victorian-era barbershop and demonic orphanage to an abandoned asylum overrun by monstrous maniacs - it’ll be no surprise that organisers warn this year’s frights are expected to be “the most disturbing in Scare City's history”.

placeholder image — Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Eight new horror zones

So, what can those brave souls who enter the haunted grounds of the former theme park expect when the doors open on September 26?

Barbershop Cutthroat & Co is inspired by the infamous legend of Victorian serial killer and blood-thirsty barber, Sweeney Todd.

Visitors will enter a sinister Victorian-style barbershop where the remains of previous customers can be found hidden beneath the floorboards.

At The Devils Orphanage, creepy children's laughter and nursery rhymes will echo through an unsettling world where something demonic has taken hold.

Scare City - one of Lancashire’s most spine-chilling Halloween attractions - has returned to the eerie grounds of the long-abandoned Camelot theme park near Chorley. | Kelvin Lister-Stuttard

Guests will also be taken into the disturbing world of The Skinning Shed, set around the fictional Blackroot Farm, where the Hargreaves family continue their gruesome work long after dark.

Other new areas include The Correction Facility, an abandoned asylum, The Settlement - a post-apocalyptic world and Thornveil Coven, where an ancient circle controls a sinister forest and the woods twist and change around visitors, with whispers following them as they attempt to find their way out.

Scare City 2025 will see the gates of the long-abandoned Camelot theme park thrown open once again | Contributed

CarniValley is the only zone returning from previous editions of Scare City – but organisers say it has been given a brutal new twist. The ringmaster's world has become a grotesque spectacle where freaks, outcasts and captured souls are forced to compete in increasingly violent games.

A new food and bar area, Rest Bite, will take the form of a retro diner and arcade - but even this apparent refuge has a darker purpose and is inhabited by vampires and other demonic creatures of the night.

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The nail-biting journey through the grounds of the abandoned theme park has also been completely redesigned, with a new entrance and exit route intended to leave visitors disorientated from the moment they arrive.

Familiar landmarks have been removed, replaced or deliberately left half-hidden in the darkness.

Organisers say the previously inaccessible areas will take guests deeper into Camelot than ever before, with visitors hunted, tested and deceived as they make their way through the attraction.

Scare City 2026 opens on September 26, with tickets available through the event's website.

The organisers are billing it as the most disturbing chapter in Scare City's history.