Frightmaster Leonard Pickel to Speak at Mansfield Convention, May 17-19

Mansfield, OH, May 01, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Leonard Pickel built his first haunted house in 1976, formed his company Hauntrepreneurs® in 1987 and has been helping people start up and be successful in the Halloween attraction business ever since. Now in his 43rd year in the business of scaring people, Pickel has written a book on his experiences, Making Money with a Halloween Attraction.

Pickel will be sharing his expertise at the Ohio Halloween & Haunters Convention, May 17-19. Speaking on various topics including Effective Fright Concepts and Opening a Halloween Event.

Set to debut later this month, Making Money with a Halloween Attraction offers a detailed business model to help want to be “haunters” make their dreams of owning and operating an October seasonal Haunted House event come true, while avoiding the pit falls and nightmares of those who have attempted it before them. Available for pre-order on Amazon.

Pickel Bio: Innovator, Designer, Artist, Inventor, Teacher, Writer, Leader -Leonard Pickel has over 40 years of themed attraction design and operations experience, creating 300 original and innovative Haunted Houses, for major venues worldwide including Madison Square Garden, Universal Studios Florida, Six Flags theme parks, Kentucky Kingdom, the Playboy Mansion Halloween Party, Ellen DeGeneres’s Game of Games and SCREAMS Terror Park, as well as Haunted Attractions in foreign countries including Puerto Rico, Canada, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Australia and India. Pickel’s creative accomplishments include design and sales of the industry’s first turn-key Haunted House kits, and the first Haunted Attraction adaptation of the “Field Theory” (the triangular grid system). Over 1 million people from Los Angeles to New York, Orlando to Seattle, have experienced the “Pickel Theory” of Haunt Design first hand.

About Ohio Halloween & Haunters Convention: Tailor made for all Haunters, big and small…OHHC has lined up a wide array of vendors from decor to props and everything in between. Whether you are looking for some creepy new decor for your home, costume pieces for a new character or some new props for your haunt, we should have you covered.