Great America seeking 500 professional ghosts, zombies and monsters for Halloween Haunt

Great America will feature a number of haunted mazes and other scary attraction's at this year's Halloween Haunt. Great America will feature a number of haunted mazes and other scary attraction's at this year's Halloween Haunt. Photo: Great America Photo: Great America Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Great America seeking 500 professional ghosts, zombies and monsters for Halloween Haunt 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

Are you an aspiring monster? A zombie with zeal, or a poltergeist with a passion?

Great America is looking for you for a few haunts this October.

The Santa Clara amusement park is holding its 12th annual fall event, the Halloween Haunt, beginning September 27, during which it will host "8 haunted mazes, 2 scare zones, 3 live entertainment offerings, hundreds of frightening monsters and Great America's most popular thrill rides."

Altogether, the park is hoping to hire up to 500 temporary employees to work as professional spookers and their makeup artists. Per a press release, job fairs are held every Sunday from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. at 2401 Agnew Road in Santa Clara.

Those who are hired might work in any of these nightmarish attractions: There's the Chaos House, a foggy "maze of mirrors, chain-link fences and glass walls" infested with faceless creatures; there's CornStalkers, a claustrophobic corn maze stalked by living scarecrows; Backwoods, a resort of no escape where werewolves roam; Tooth Fairy, a "twisted dentist's office"; Zombie High, a school at the epicenter of the zombie outbreak; and Ripper's Revenge, a scare zone where Jack the Ripper seeks new victims.

But it's not all scares. There's also a Dia de los Muertos celebration, where "free-spirited hosts" invite you to dance.

See all the Halloween Haunt attractions here at Great America's official site.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor. Email: apereira@sfchronicle.com | Twitter: @alyspereira

