Nightmare Before Christmas Market

The Nightmare Before Christmas Market is a Halloween-themed artisan market at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver. It features wacky and unique products.

The market usually happens on a Saturday and Sunday in the latter half of October. Dates for 2025 are to be confirmed. It’s a terrific event, especially for people who like Halloween, artisan markets and shopping for cool stuff! The market is full of all kinds of amazing things!

Visit the Nightmare Before Christmas Market website or check out the event’s Facebook page for full details.

This article contains the following information about the market:

Hours and Admission | What to Expect | Event Video | Other Information

Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween Market in Vancouver

The Nightmare Before Christmas Market is a popular annual event. Don’t get confused by its name. This is not a Christmas-themed market. The Nightmare Before Christmas Market is a Halloween event that runs for two days in October each year. It features dozens of vendors selling a variety of unique products. There are also kid-friendly activities, and Halloween costumes are encouraged. This is the place to dress to express, be it in costume or just letting your true style shine.

The market started out in 2017 in New Westminster but has since grown and come to Vancouver. Last year the market happened at the Maritime Labour Centre at 1880 Triumph Street in Vancouver. It took place on Saturday, October 19th, and Sunday, October 20th.

Click Nightmare Before Christmas Market for the event’s official website.

Nightmare Before Christmas Vendor

Hours and Admission

The Nightmare Before Christmas Market runs on a weekend in October. Saturday hours are usually from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Sunday hours are from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Tickets are available both online and at the door. General admission for each day last year cost $4 in advance or $5 at the door. Weekend passes were also available online for $7 per person and they include access to the market on both days. Tickets are required for everyone ages 14 and over. Children ages 13 and under can get in for free.

The event happens at the Maritime Labour Centre at 1880 Triumph Street. The venue is near Powell and Victoria Streets in East Vancouver, not far from the Parallel 49 Brewery. There is on-site parking and lots of free, unrestricted street parking nearby.

(TIP: Last year the first 67 admission-paying market goers received $5 in market money to spend at the booth of their choice! This may happen again in 2025 or it may not. Details are to be confirmed.)

Vendors at Nightmare Before Christmas Market

What to Expect

The Nightmare Before Christmas Market is a family-friendly event. Expect to see people of all ages (some of which will be walking around in their favourite costumes, which is always a fun sight to see).

There are more than 65 vendors and food trucks selling a wide range of unique and wonderful things.

This Halloween-themed market celebrates everything weird and wacky, unlike other artisan markets. It’s an opportunity to browse and buy unique products a few weeks before Halloween and a couple of months before Christmas.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Market also features activities for kids. There are craft activities and face painting. Expect to see cosplayers roaming around the venue. Food trucks and Vancouver’s Coffee Bike are on-site as well.

Some of the many vendors at the event last year were A Quill & a Unicorn, Aphrodites Realm, Bits & Keys, Black Cat Creative, Brutally Creative, Caudron & Broom, Decadent Decay, Diabolical Dungeoneer, Dragonscales Journals, Gingerkraft, Gothicana, Heavy Metal Minerals, and Hellbent Designs.

There was also Koquetta Accessories, Kwest Costume Art, Leftover Hippies Incense, Loucifer’s Boutique, Love of Gothic, Madam Radical, Magical Reveries, Nearly Contained Chaos, Nerds in Leather, Nuclear Jackal, Pink Bubble Bath Co., Pretty But Odd, and Shewolf Tea.

Others were Sriracha Revolver Hot Sauce, Stoner Advisory Art, The Alpaca Shop, The Zesty Lemon Clothing Co., They Came from Above, Three Racoons, Through the Clockwork Door, Twisted Sistas, Wee Robots, West Coast Macabre and Wyld Sage Wares, plus a whole lot more!

Event Video

Check out the video below for an idea of what to expect at this year’s event. The video is from the 2022 Nightmare Before Christmas Market (from when it took place at its former Croatian Cultural Centre location). Future events will look similar.