A Haunting in Industry City, Sunset Park NYC: Horror Art Market Debuts

A Haunting, an art market centered on the horror genre, held its first edition, A Haunting in Industry City, on Saturday, October 17. It took place in the Barrow's Intense NY tasting room inside Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, from noon to 6pm.

The organizers said the debut market was themed around everything horror. Twenty vendors sold their wares, including art, stickers, apparel and other handmade goods. For anyone drawn to dark, offbeat design, it was a chance to buy straight from the people who made the work.

Shopping was only part of the program. The day also included a raffle and a costume contest, and attendees could play peek a boo bingo, the organizers' own iteration of the classic game. With Halloween close, dressing up was a natural way to take part.

The first 50 RSVPs to arrive received a free Haunting zine. It carried content on the market and its vendors as well as on horror media and the genre itself, and it came with a small photo card.

The event was organized through Partiful, where the host asked people to help spread the word. The page showed 445 guests as having gone and 52 as maybe. The invitation art, a black-and-white engraving-style poster, billed the day as vendors, peek a boo bingo, a raffle, a costume contest and "a horrific good time."

Industry City is a complex of converted buildings on the southwest Brooklyn waterfront, and it can be reached from Manhattan by subway. That made the market an easy trip for horror fans and for anyone looking for handmade, Halloween-minded gifts and keepsakes. As a first edition, it set up A Haunting as a new small-scale stop on the neighborhood's fall calendar.