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From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Date: 20061012
Author:Litas, Lee A.
Byline: Lee A. Litas Daily Herald Correspondent
"The doom is clear, all hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here," wrote Dante Alighieri of the nine levels of Hell in his poetic masterpiece, "The Divine Comedy", more than 700 years ago.
Those ominous words rattled around in my brain as I negotiated the claustrophobic passageways of the Realm of Terror in Round Lake Beach.
Voted one of the "Top 10 Haunted Houses in Illinois" by hauntedillinois.com, the Realm's fright fest can almost transport one back in time to the Halloweens of yore where terrifying images of a ...
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