Nosferatu Festival Austin Texas 2026 Feb 27th - Mar 1st

Nosferatu Festival Austin Texas 2026 Feb 27th - Mar 1st

13th Mausoleum Invades the Nosferatu Festival

🦇 A Weekend of Vampires, Oddities, and Handmade Horror

This weekend the 13th Mausoleum crypt doors opened at the Nosferatu Festival, and we brought a traveling cabinet of the strange with us.

The Nosferatu Festival is a gathering of artists, collectors, horror fans, and lovers of the macabre. Imagine walking into a ballroom filled with vampires, gothic artwork, handmade oddities, and creatures that look like they escaped from a forgotten Victorian curiosity shop. That’s exactly the atmosphere.

And of course… we had to bring the weird.


Building the 13th Mausoleum Booth

For this event we transformed a simple vendor table into a mini mausoleum display.

The booth featured our signature black gothic shelving, glowing red 13th Mausoleum neon sign, and layers of skulls, skeletons, and strange artifacts. Every inch of the table was packed with oddities.

Visitors could explore:

• Hand-crafted vampire hunter stake kits
• Resin fetal skeleton specimens
• Hand-painted skull replicas
• Gothic curiosities and small macabre collectibles
• One-of-a-kind handmade horror art

The goal is always the same: make the booth feel like you’ve stepped into a Victorian collector’s cabinet hidden inside a crypt.


When Nosferatu Shows Up…

One of the best moments of the festival happened when Nosferatu himself stopped by the booth.

Naturally, a vampire hunter must do what a vampire hunter must do.

Armed with one of our wooden mallets and stakes, a brave attendee attempted to send the ancient vampire back to the shadows. The crowd loved it and cameras came out immediately. It turned into one of those spontaneous moments that perfectly captures why these events are so much fun.

Sometimes the line between performance, art, and pure Halloween chaos disappears.


Why We Love Events Like This

Online sales are great, but nothing compares to meeting people face to face who love the same strange things we do.

At the Nosferatu Festival, we met:

• collectors of oddities
• haunted house builders
• Halloween fanatics
• gothic artists
• people discovering the world of macabre curiosities for the first time

Seeing someone pick up a skull replica orone of our strange little mummified creations and smile like they just found buried treasure… that’s the best part.


The Workshop Never Sleeps

Many of the pieces we brought to the Nosferatu Festival were fresh creations straight out of the 13th Mausoleum workshop.

Before events like this, we spend long nights casting skulls, assembling vampire hunting kits, sculpting strange creatures, and building odd little artifacts that look like they came out of a forgotten museum drawer.

Every piece is made by hand and every event gets something new.


Come Visit the Mausoleum

If you stopped by our booth at the Nosferatu Festival, thank you for supporting handmade art and independent creators.

If you missed the event, don’t worry. The 13th Mausoleum is always creating new oddities.

You can explore our latest creations here:

👉 13thmausoleum.com

Or follow along as we keep building stranger and stranger things.

Because somewhere between art, horror, and curiosity…

The Mausoleum is always open.

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