The Limited Edition of Stern’s Elvira’s House of Horrors is the top-tier take on Dennis Nordman’s 2019 design — the third pinball collaboration with the Mistress of the Dark, following the Williams classics Elvira and the Party Monsters and Scared Stiff. Once again the Queen of Halloween presides over a playfield stuffed with B-movie monsters and double entendres, framed around her trying to unload a haunted house full of unwanted creatures. The LE pours on premium finishes atop a feature set that includes a motorized elevating ramp, twin up-kickers, a spinning target, and Elvira’s trademark wink-wink humor.
The structure revolves around Haunts — 45-second movie modes started at the house entrance, each on a self-resetting timer so you can milk them for escalating value. The real depth comes from stacking: Haunts layer onto the game’s many multiballs, and clearing your third Haunt qualifies House Party Multiball, where every shot is lit and the super jackpot waits at the house. Locking balls in the Garage feeds Wild Women, Add-A-Zombie, and Attic Attack multiballs, while completing a mode and hitting both ramps starts a hurry-up worth double the mode’s points.
For the deep-end player, the Wheel of Fate grants multiball extensions that breathe life back into a fading multiball, and the Gappa Angry wizard mode rewards persistence with rounds of lock-and-launch mayhem. Loaded with toys, gags, and genuine strategic layering, the House of Horrors LE is a fitting capstone to one of pinball’s most enduring comic partnerships — equal parts haunted-house fun and serious point-stacking puzzle. Unpleasant dreams!