Presenting a free screening of one of the most popular, awarded, influential, and terrifying fright films ever made, Davenport's Figge Art Museum will celebrate the approach of Halloween with a John Deere Auditorium showing of 1973's original The Exorcist, director William Friedkin's and author William Peter Blatty's tale of supernatural horror, and a legitimate cinematic classic that, adjusted for inflation, is the ninth highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. and the top-grossing R-rated film of all time.

In a live German American Heritage Center presentation ideal for Halloween month, tales of legends, ghosts, and one of the most gruesome murders in area history will be shared in the October 22 program Voices in the Walls: Murder, Legends, &Hauntings of the Quad Cities, with John Brassard Jr. sharing stories of unspeakable crimes, sinister spirits, and bizarre history in a lecture your grandma certainly didn’t want you to hear.

With the New York World-Telegram calling the character drama "the rarest of theater experiences" and "an evening which will prove an indelible memory," Horton Foote's stage classic The Trip to Bountiful serves as the 2023-24 season opener at Iowa City's Riverside Theatre, its October 20 through November 5 run sure to demonstrate why the Wall Street Journal's reviewer raved, "I've never been more deeply moved by a theatrical production of any kind."

With the exhibition's creator having led University of Dubuque students through the history of western Europe on art and culture adventures for the past 23 years, the director of the Bisignano Art Gallery enjoys a of showcase of in the venue's Bagatelle: Recent Drawings by Alan Garfield, this beautiful collection of works on display through October 27.