Our second year set several precedents for the years to come. It was the first fully-scripted house, it had some original characters, there were two guides through the majority of the house, and there was something of an ongoing storyline.

From a publicity shot that appeared in Marshall's weekly newspaper, the Ad-Visor, Lorus is surrounded by a werewolf, a witch, and Puck.

Dr. Chronos was the inventor of a time machine, and she and her assistant, Lorus, were going to unveil it to our victims. Unfortunately, Chronos chose Halloween for the night of the exhibition, and while the machine did take the party to several different years, it was always October 31.

At each time period, the group was attacked by villians and monsters from that era. They started in ancient Greece where they met Medusa and the Minotaur, then came forward in time meeting (among several others) Macbeth's witches, Frankenstein, Dracula, Freddy Kruger, and a Robot from the future that feeds on electricity from the human brain.

Lorus didn't make it, winding up a victim of the vampires. When Chronos found herself trapped at the end of time, Lorus returned along with all of the evil creatures, each the personification of its own time's ideas about evil, and each driven by hunger. The tour group is rescued by Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who would rather they lived so he could pester them again. Chronos was left to fend for herself.

The big reappearance of every character at the end was nice, but meant that only one group could be taking the tour at a time, and as a consequence people wound up waiting much longer to get in than we expected. We learned our lesson, and would have two sets of guides in every year to follow.