Red Bus Londinium Life

The fifth year of the horror theatre festival, 13 to 31 October, with plays, cabaret, musicals, clowning and puppetry.
GrimFest booking: https://weareoldred.co.uk/whats-on/grimfest/

An evening on 22 October with Naomi Ryan, where the audience acts as jury on spooky cases from English legal history. Booking is through the museum’s events page.
https://bowstreetmuseum.org.uk/whatson/visit-events/

A new supernatural dark comedy, playing at 7pm from 25 to 28 October. Julia Chadwick-Baxter, a late-night radio host who scoffs at the afterlife, is dared by a caller to broadcast live from an alleged haunted theatre during a midnight lock-in. She and her long-suffering producer set out to debunk the claim, but the evening gets stranger than either expected.

Booking: https://www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk/show/final-act

Image credit: Emma Kerr

Soho cabaret hosts Vanity von Glow and Sadie Sinner lead a Halloween show of burlesque, aerial artistry and live music, which includes raising a Hollywood legend from the dead. It plays at 7.30pm from 28 to 30 October, at 5pm and 7.30pm on 31 October, and at 7.30pm on 1 November. Tickets are from £33.

Booking: https://phoenixartsclub.com/events/the-covenant-halloween-at-the-phoenix 

The silent film version of Phantom of the Opera with live accompaniment on the church’s Klais organ, 27 and 28 October.
https://stlawrencejewry.org.uk/whatson/events/phantom-of-the-opera.php

(Sold out but you can be added to the reserve list)

A 45-minute ghost story session in Dickens’s former kitchen on 29 October, for ages seven and over. Museum entry is included

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https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/tales-from-the-haunted-house-halloween-2026

Gothic Opera’s Halloween production, 29 October to 1 November, is an opéra-comique loosely based on Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades. It is the first staging since its 1850 premiere.

https://www.gothicopera.co.uk/productions/ladamedepique

A fancy dress karaoke night at St Giles in Camberwell on 31 October where the songs are backed by the church organ.
https://www.liveatstgiles.com/events/organoke-spooktacular

A Halloween comedy bill on Saturday 31 October with Lou Sanders, Two Hearts, Dan Tiernan, Frankie Thompson and Ayoade Bamgboye.

https://sohotheatre.com/events/neon-frights-with-lou-sanders/

Cabaret artist Hersh Dagmarr gives a Halloween-themed evening of song on Sunday 1 November. The programme draws on songs made famous by Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Iggy Pop, Kylie Minogue and the Pet Shop Boys, among others.
https://app.foresttms.com/TicketListing?restaurant=crazycoqs&event=dagmarrs-dimanche-out-of-this-world-2026-11-01

The fourth annual Halloween night of independent genre films, on Saturday 31 October from 7pm to 10pm. It is inspired by Britain’s Video Nasties panic and mixes horror, gore, black comedy and bad taste, with awards and trailers.

Booking: https://events.humanitix.com/video-nasties-4-fourbidden