Things to do in London this Halloween, from Phantom Peak to the latest Close Ties rave

Halloween is the clip to clasp our fears. Be it missing retired connected a spouse successful clip for cuffing season, oregon being cut-off from the family’s escaped Amazon Prime account, it’s a genuinely terrifying marker successful the calendar.

Halloween tin beryllium bearable if you cognize however to attack it. It’s conscionable astir the lone permissible clip of twelvemonth erstwhile adults tin reasonably formal up without feeling hideously embarrassed, truthful it’s highly worthy getting successful connected the enactment and arsenic ever, London has a knack for putting connected a big of fantastic happenings to support things interesting. 

For the hardcore revellers and ravers, we’ve already amassed a glut of the precise champion nightclub evenings, parties and events to support you going till astir 6am, but if you’re successful the temper for disco alternatively of drum ‘n’ bass oregon similar cabaret to m-cat, past this big of restaurants, bars, venues and niche small goings-on mightiness beryllium a small much up your street. 

Here’s wherever to get your freak connected with the champion of London this scary season. 

This year, a fig of London’s newer venues are bringing the hoo haa’s with this scary season’s champion parties. Horvada’s latest spot (5 Water Street, E14, canarywharf.hovarda) has a chiseled proximity to the frankly terrifying City boys, which is astir apt wherefore it’s throwing an American Psycho themed bash dubbed Psycho successful the City. Expect heavy location from YUCUTAN Music Collective and Horvada’s Greek-leaning fare, with much than a smattering of terror.

Heading centrally and Stereo (The Piazza, WC2E, stereocoventgarden.com) volition beryllium hosting a Halloween bash for the ages: a two-night matter called Stereo Noir. Things footwear disconnected with a disco for the damned wherever the formal codification is: black, earlier nighttime 2 sees Klub Kids by RuPaul's Drag Race instrumentality the helm. Nearby there’s a cracking acceptable of spooky events astatine Ibiza import Lío (3-4 Coventry Street, W1D, liogroup.com) with six nights of Halloween revelry, including the Standard’s ain Fat Tony taking to the decks connected October 26.

Hotels are getting successful connected the enactment too, with The Mandrake (20-21 Newman Street, W1T, themandrake-halloween.com) hosting its yearly do. This year’s taxable the Veil of Shadows, evoking the feeling of a concealed nine with a nocturnal masquerade party: haunting stuff. Around the country successful Soho, the newish edifice Chateau Denmark is hosting a bash astatine its Thirteen LDN barroom (1-3 Denmark Street, WC2H, thirteenldn.com) with vintage cabaret courtesy creator Lolo Brow. This 1 looks a must-watch. 

This Halloween everyone is getting successful the Beetlejuice tone with Soho spot Kapara (14 Greek St, W1D, kapara.co.uk) hosting a Beetlejuice brunch. Expect Halloween-inspired cocktails alongside a buzzy resistance brunch with Envy the Queen and Madame.

Elsewhere the potables astatine Royal Cocktail Exchange (31 Windmill Street, W1T, royalcocktailexchange.com) are getting the spooky play attraction with a Monster Gibson made with Monster Munch vodka — yes, you work that close — Mc'Nean Botanical Spirit and Cocchi Americano, and a Newport sour with Kombu bourbon, raisin syrup, larboard and sherry blend and ovum white. Garnished with a Welsh barroom these mightiness conscionable beryllium the creepiest drinks successful town.

Across town, the Mr Fogg’s (across London, mr-foggs.com) barroom radical is laying connected peculiar Halloween menus said to instrumentality inspiration from literate figures with Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Dracula providing the motorboat constituent for these caller cocktails. Over astatine Shoreditch Arts Club (6 Redchurch Street, E2, shoreditchartsclub.com) the burgeoning Close Ties rave returns with a Halloween special. Naz Hassan is connected the hobs, showcasing his unsocial Bengali and Italian cooking style, but our involvement piqued astatine the £5 aboriginal vertebrate summons terms which includes a complimentary Champagne blessed hour? Sign america up. 

And astatine Hithe + Seek (60 Upper Thames Street EC4V 3AD, hitheandseek.com) astatine the Westin London City, 2 “devilish” cocktails are available. One, called the Black Widow, blends mezcal with Campari, lime juice, and elemental syrup, portion the second, called Beware of the Potion, combines gin, Midori, greenish apple, citrus juice, and elemental syrup.

Night of the surviving dead? Not quite. Instead, these are the experiences acceptable to beryllium a small little terrifying, perfect for a ghastly radical of you. Hallowed Peak astatine Phantom Peak (Surrey Quays Road, SE16, phantompeak.com) returns for its 2nd year, with the highly theatrical acquisition promising adjacent much actors, rooms, scenarios and (crucially) scares this clip around. As ever, determination are aggregate ghostly storylines to travel crossed the representation and the actors volition beryllium dishing retired scares successful this evening afloat of fright.

For anyone looking to instrumentality a spot this spooky play and fto the enactment travel to them, the Phoenix Arts Club (1 Phoenix Street, WC2H, feverup.com) could beryllium a bully bet. It’s hosting a Halloween cabaret successful Soho, with stunts, resistance artists and ghoulish cocktails, portion adjacent the Underbelly Boulevard Theatre (6 Walker's Court, W1F, underbellyboulevard.com) is hosting the Last Fright successful Soho, promising “a fusion of fire, flesh, and fantasy”.

Elsewhere there’s a terrifying flight country acquisition curated by No Escape (across London, noescapelondon.co.uk) with unrecorded actors lending an eerie realism to these bespoke haunting sets portion Halloween Hijingo (90 Worship Street, EC2A, hijingo.com) offers a bingo-led enactment with costumes, prizes and, naturally, a just spot of drinking. 

Some of the much relaxed Halloween events crossed municipality are nary little goosebump-inducing and the Rivoli Ballroom (350 Brockley Road, SE4, rivoliballroom.com) is simply a large spot to start. Each year, the Halloween screenings showcase a glut of classical fearfulness flicks with unit and guests encouraged to formal up. The Shining is on, arsenic is Carrie, crossed 4 dates astatine the extremity of the month, arsenic good arsenic a peculiar midnight screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

If precocious nights are your thing, past a brace of “night astatine the museum” benignant events mightiness suit best. The Science Museum (South Kensington, SW7, sciencemuseum.org.uk) and the Natural History Museum (South Kensington, SW7, nhm.ac.uk) each unfastened their doors for after-hours tours astir Halloween, with the erstwhile promising spooky subject and terrifying tech.

Meanwhile, the NHM lays connected spooky tours and a precise fashionable soundless disco, dancing nether the immense bluish whale successful the main hall. And for dancing the nighttime away, fewer places volition beryllium a amended acceptable than the Halloween Ceilidh (thenestcollective.co.uk) astatine St Mary Magdalene’s Church adjacent Paddington. The dimly lit religion volition beryllium the cleanable haunting backdrop for unrecorded Celtic euphony and dance, creating 1 of London’s much unsocial and atmospheric evenings.