With zombie invasions, a haunted ship and all things pumpkin, there’s a lot of spooky things going on around Long Beach until Halloween day, as well as some less scary family fun.

Saturday

• Don’t want the kids to get crazy on sugar? Check out the Healthy Halloween Festival at Farm Lot 59 on Saturday. Wear a costume and bring a bag for healthy treats from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2714 California Ave. in Long Beach. There will be nature crafts, games and prizes and face painting too.

• The Historical Cemetery Tour features graveside performances by professional and volunteer actors in period costume who tells the stories of the person lying in rest. Some of the stories are individuals who helped shape the city’s political past, others are ordinary people who remind us that “every plot has a story,” according to organizers. The first performance starts at 9 a.m.; tours will be conducted continuously until 2:40 p.m. on Saturday. See the performances at Long Beach Municipal and Sunnyside Cemeteries at 1095 E. Willow St. in Long Beach.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.hslb.org or at the event until noon. General admission is $20, $15 for Historical Society of Long Beach members, $8 for students ages 5 to 18 and $1 for children 4 and under.

• Shoreline Village is looking for all the “rotting, brain-eating, flesh-dripping citizens” they can find to join in the Long Beach Zombie Walk on Saturday at 421 Shoreline Village Drive, Long Beach, from 2 to 10 p.m. The free event will include movies, vendors and haunting surprises.

• Cut down the walking distance needed to get all that candy and trunk-or-treat at Little Cottonwood Park, 4000 Farquhar Ave. in Los Alamitos on Saturday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The Los Alamitos Recreation and Community Services Department will host the free community event that offers trunk-or-treating, treasure hunts, games and costume contests.

• The Los Alamitos Race Course is hosting its annual Halloween Carnival on Saturday at 6 p.m. Admission is $3 for adults and free for kids 17 and under, with proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of Cypress. Parking is also free. The carnival also includes a costume contest with cash prizes for the winners. There will be 20 carnival games, game prizes, Halloween Derby racing game, pony rides, arcade games, candy, jockey autographs and a photo booth. Game tickets will be available 25 cents each.

Sunday

• When you’re not running away from scary things this weekend, you can run for a cause at the School Ghoul 10k, 5k Run/Walk and Kid’s Festival of Races on Sunday at 7:15 a.m. The race is a fundraiser for the Los Alamitos Unified School District and the cost is $30 for the kids festival of races and $45 for the 5k or 10k. Registration is still available in person on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 6 a.m. until the start of the race at Rush Park in Los Alamitos.

• “Strut your mutt” at the Haute Dog Howl’oween Parade in Marina Vista Park. About 500 costumed dogs will be in the 2:30 p.m. parade. Dogs can be registered in the parade for $10; owners must bring a copy of their dog’s rabies vaccination paperwork on Sunday. The winner of the parade will get dog food for a year. There will be a vendor and pet adoption fair from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. There is no charge for humans to walk in the parade (with or without costumes or pets) and it’s free to spectate.

Tuesday, Halloween Day

• BYOP (Bring Your Own Pumpkin) to the Los Alamitos-Rossmor Library between 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday to carve or decorate your pumpkin at the library. The library is providing paint, glitter, glue and other supplies. You don’t even have to clean up the mess. The event is open to kids age 4 to 12.

• Find family fun at the Cerritos Halloween Festival at Knabe Community Regional Park, 19700 Bloomfield Ave. on Tuesday from 5 to 8:30 p.m. There will be a costume parade, entertainment and game booths as well as food and rides for a small cost. Children ages 5 years and under are also invited to the Happy Haunt Fun Zone for games and crafts for the preschool crowd.

• The city of Norwalk is looking to promote a safe celebration of the scary holiday at their Halloween Festival. There will be game booths, a costume contest, a community scarecrow contest, raffles, music, crafts and, of course, lots of candy. The festival goes from 6 to 9 p.m. at City Hall, 12700 Norwalk Blvd.

• The Long Beach Towne Center is hosting a Halloween Spookfest on Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. Trick or treat at participating stores and restaurants, get a free face painting and balloon art and listen to a DJ spinning some fun tunes.

• Bring a bag and a costume and Trick or Treat on Second Street in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore on Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m. Participating businesses with the Belmont Shore Business Association will be passing out candy.

• If you’re in the mood for a scary Halloween classic, Sunnyside Cemetery will be screening the slasher film Halloween (1978) on Tuesday from 8 to 11 p.m. Bring a low-back lawn chair or blankets to 1095 E. Willow St. in Long Beach. Tickets are $15; purchase them here.

Ongoing

• The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor offers seven terrifying mazes including the new ship maze “FEAST.” The ship will be haunting through Nov. 1. For those looking for a scare, go to queenmary.com/events/dark-harbor to purchase tickets.

• If you still need need a pumpkin, Pa’s Pumpkin Patch has it covered. They also have activities, games, rides and carnival style food. The patch is open all weekend, Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 6701 E. Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach.