Chill-seeking: Japan's haunted house summer tradition


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A zombie performer greeting visitors at a haunted house of the Namjatown indoor theme park in Tokyo. Halloween may not be for months, but it's already peak haunted house season in Japan, where seeking a bone-chilling fright is a long established summer tradition. — Photos: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP

Halloween may not be for months, but it's already peak haunted house season in Japan, where seeking a bone-chilling fright is a long established summer tradition.

Kimono-clad ghosts with bloody eyes convulse in agony and lurch towards visitors at one spooky establishment in Tokyo, roaming around groaning like zombies.

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