Home Depot revives its Halfway to Halloween sale: Shop the spooky drop before it sells out
The Home Depot has resurrected its annual Halfway to Halloween sale. The home improvement retailer surprise-released a selection of its popular Halloween decorations on Wednesday, April 8, marking nearly six months until the spooky holiday.
The items went live on the Home Depot's website around 7 a.m. ET and are only available for purchase while supplies last. All of them have a limit of one per order.
This year's Halfway to Halloween drop includes 14 props — some new for 2026, some returning from previous years. Among them are a nine-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton; two undead horses; a menacing bunny animatronic; and a new app-controlled version of "Lethal Lily," a witch animatronic that the Home Depot last sold in 2023 and 2024. Here's the full list:
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5-foot Grave & Bones Animated LED Hearse ($399), a carriage with a sound-activated skeleton driver and LED lanterns.
9-foot Grave & Bones Giant-Sized LED T-Rex ($399) with light-up eyes and a motion-activated roar.
7-foot Wicked Woods Animated LED App Controlled Lethal Lily ($299) with a customizable RGB lantern. Users can speak through the animatronic and record messages for it to play via the Decor Pro app.
8.5-foot Grave & Bones Giant-Sized Animated LED Knight Frostbane ($399), a light-up headless horseman.
6.5-foot Animated LED Maleficent ($279), an officially licensed animatronic of the Sleeping Beauty villain.
8.5-foot Grave & Bones Giant-Sized LED Undead Horse ($249), a rearing horse skeleton.
7-foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Horrifying Hops ($199), a fanged rabbit zombie that can lunge at trick-or-treaters.
4.5-foot Grave & Bones Animated LED Cabernet Casualty ($199), a blonde skeleton that pops up from a wine barrel.
4.5-foot Grave & Bones Color Changing LED Groundbreaker ($199), an oversized skeleton torso that's meant to look like it's bursting out of the earth.
6.5-foot Wicked Woods Animated LED Snarling Snowman ($199) with a glowing face and moving arms.
6-foot Halloween Classics Animated LED Neon Nightmare ($179), a scary clown with motion-activated audio and an outfit that glows under blacklight.
6-foot Halloween Classics Animated LED Checkmate Chuckles ($179), another motion-activated clown with a winding jack-in-the-box.
6.5-foot Wicked Woods LED Pumpkin Vine Creature ($129), a gnarled scarecrow-like monster with posable arms.
5.5-foot Grave & Bones LED Skeleton Pony ($129) with glowing red eyes.
Both of the clowns are at risk of selling out first: Less than 500 of them were available at the time of writing.
A Home Depot representative told Mashable that all returning items are priced the same as they were originally. The updated Lethal Lily is only $50 more than her non-app-controlled predecessor.
Notably absent from the drop is "Skelly," the viral 12-foot-tall skeleton that the Home Depot has sold every year since 2020. Wannabe owners will just have to be patient: The company's rep confirmed that Skelly will return in stores and online later this year.
The Home Depot typically releases its full Halloween collection in mid-July, though last year it arrived in early August. The retailer previewed several new additions to its 2026 lineup on Instagram in mid-March, including a giant mummy, skeleton pirates, a decaying velociraptor, and an app-controlled version of Skelly.
With this year's Halfway to Halloween sale, the Home Depot's seasonal programming has returned to its regular schedule. Mashable previously reported that the company canceled the sale last year amid fluctuating tariffs that threw the entire Halloween decor industry into uncertainty. The sale normally features a limited selection of brand-new items from the Home Depot's annual Halloween collection, serving as a teaser to its full summer drop. Its 2025 hiatus disappointed Skelly and friends' zealous fandom.
This year's Halfway to Halloween sale is happening just a little earlier than usual. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, it was scheduled for late April.
Haley Henschel is a Chicago-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable who reviews and finds deals on popular tech, from laptops to gaming consoles and VPNs. She has years of experience covering shopping holidays and can tell you what’s actually worth buying on Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day. Her work has also explored the driving forces behind digital trends within the shopping sphere, from dupes to 12-foot skeletons.
