The Best Halloween Lights for Your Home That Cast a Ghoulish Glow

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 7.5 feet
• Number of lights: 10
• Power source: Two AA batteries

This strand of foldable jack-o’-lanterns illuminates your indoor or outdoor party area with its warm amber light that can be set to blink.

Reviewers say there's a little bit of setup involved with this strand, but once the plastic lanterns are installed, they'll last you season after season.

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Key Specs
• Length of strand: 48 feet
• Number of lights: 15
• Power source: Outlet plug-in

Get this set of cafe-style LEDs, and you won't need to buy a dedicated strand of Halloween lights!

This 48-foot-long strand will completely light up your outdoor space in eight colors, including spooky shades like green, purple, orange, and red. It comes with three modes for shining steadily, blinking, or fading, and you can even adjust the brightness level. 

Its IP65 waterproof rating also makes this light strand suitable for leaving outdoors in any weather.

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 10 feet
• Number of lights: 20
• Power source: Three AA batteries

This Halloween light strand includes 20 5.5-inch-long LED figures, and they are the most party-ready skeletons we've ever seen! Each one glows in a different color, and you can set them to either glow steadily or flash. 

Best of all, this strand is battery-operated, so you can put it pretty much anywhere.

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 79 feet
• Number of lights: 240
• Power source: Outlet plug-in

These purple LED string lights (also available in orange) totally have us spellbound. Their outdoor-safe build and considerable 79-foot length (!) allows you to wrap them around a tree outside to create a bewitching beacon on Halloween night. 

Key Specs
• Set of 12 individual candles
• Power source: Two AA batteries per candle

No levitating spells here! These Halloween lights suspend individually from nearly invisible strands, and each one is battery-powered and remote control-operated. Simply unscrew the bulb and wrap around some string or fishing wire. 

Hang them up in your Great Hall ... or simply over your dining room table.

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 13 feet
• Number of lights: 30
• Power source: Three AA batteries

For appropriately eerie accent lighting, opt for these Halloween lights. These purple LED-lit spiders are battery-operated, so you're not bound to your outlets for placement. 

String them up on your mantel or drape around a bookshelf to amp up the mystical or spooky ambiance in your space.

Key Specs
• Set of two branch bundles
• Power source: Two AA batteries per bundle

This pair of 20-inch-tall branches bring a haunted-forest look to your interiors. Best situated in a floor vase, each bundle's 40 LED micro-bulbs add an eerie glow.

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 4.5 feet
• Number of lights: Three
• Power source: Three AA batteries

There's something strange in the neighborhood — er, front lawn! 

The perfect throwback Halloween lights from the movie Ghostbusters, these battery-powered, Slimer-shaped pathway lights are the perfect, ghoulish greeting for your trick-or-treaters. Just make sure to get a set of two if you want both sides of your walkway covered.

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 20 feet
• Number of lights: 30
• Power source: Solar panel

These Halloween lights are definitely more cute than creepy, and they add a cheerful atmosphere to a kid-friendly gathering. The strand is solar-powered, and it's safe for indoor or outdoor use. 

Plus, with a considerable 20-foot length, you'll have more than enough ghouls to go around!

Key Specs
• Length of strand: 10.5 feet
• Number of lights: Seven
• Power source: Outlet plug-in

Turn your den into a dungeon-like lair with these Halloween lights. Seven bulbs on a strand flicker and cast a haunting, ambient light — one that's much safer than using real candlelight.