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Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, which means half-term runs straight into it and the week fills up fast. With everything from spooky family outings to parties after dark, there's plenty to choose from. Here’s what’s on our neck of the woods, from 22 October to 1 November.
Find Your Halloween Plans:
💃 Halloween Parties & Club Nights
🧛♀️ Films, Talks & Tastings
👻 Ghost Walks & After-Dark Adventures
🎃 Pumpkin Picking, Crafts & Halloween Daytime
😎 Kids, Families & Free Events
💃 Halloween Parties & Club Nights
Finsbury Park Cabaret: Halloween Spectacular | 📍The Old Dairy, N4 | 31 October | (£)
Finsbury Park is getting its own cabaret night, and the first one lands on Halloween. The launch show brings together different acts rather than one continuous performance, with singing, comedy, dance and a little old school cabaret glamour. Kiki Noir is among the performers, mixing cabaret with Portuguese and Brazilian music and dance. Doors 7pm, show 8pm. There’s also an optional Thai dinner you can order in advance.
Horroway Road Halloween Costume Party | 📍One Eighty One, N7 | 31 October | (£)
Go dressed as your favourite musician, dead or alive. One Eighty One is turning Holloway Road into “Horroway Road” for Halloween, with Spin Doctor and guests playing all vinyl sets until 2am. Tickets are £5 and include a glass of Halloween Prosecco. 9pm to 2am.
Halloween Party at the London Art Bar | 📍Holborn, WC1 | 31 October | (£)
The London Art Bar is keeping Halloween simple: costumes, cocktails and dancing. Come dressed as weird, scary or elaborate as you like, with a DJ playing through the night and the bar mixing cocktails until 11pm. Starts at 7pm.
Club de Fromage Halloween Special | 📍Dingwalls, NW1 | 31 October | (£)
Club de Fromage is going full Halloween at Dingwalls. Come in your most gruesome costume for four hours of big pop songs, Halloween tunes, ridiculous dance offs and mass singalongs, with the stage covered in horror props and Club de Fromage’s costumed characters causing trouble in between. There’ll be confetti cannons and Halloween cocktails too. 11pm to 3am. 18+ only.
elrow Horroween | 📍Drumsheds, N18 | 31 Oct | (£)
elrow’s theatrical Halloween rave is back in London for the first time since 2024. It takes over Drumsheds in Edmonton with three stages and around 14,000 people in fancy dress. Patrick Topping, MK and Sarah Story are on the line up. 1pm to 10.30pm, last entry 5pm, 18+.
🧛♀️ Films, Talks & Tastings
Beyond The Veil | 📍Highgate Cemetery, N6 | 27 October | (£)
One-man show performed in Highgate Cemetery on a dark October night, the week before Halloween. Actor Jonathan Goodwin performs an adaptation of George Eliot’s gothic Victorian tale about a man who believes he can see into other people’s minds and foresee the future. A story about fate, death and what lies beyond, in the most fitting venue in London. £15 includes a glass of wine. Doors 7pm, show 7.30pm.
Nancy’s Murder and Other Horrifying Tales | 📍Charles Dickens Museum, WC1N | 28 & 29 October | (£)
Dickens wrote the murder scene in Oliver Twist and then refused to perform it for years because he was afraid of what it would do to an audience. When he finally did, people fainted. West End actor Dominic Gerrard performs it, alongside two more Victorian ghost stories, in the house on Doughty Street where Dickens actually lived. His first performance here in six years. £25.75, Wednesday 8pm, Thursday 6pm.
Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 📍Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington, N16 | 21–31 October | (£)
A headless horseman is coming to Stoke Newington just in time for Halloween. Tower Theatre is staging The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the 200-year-old ghost story about nervous schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who arrives in a strange rural town hoping to teach, fall in love and live quietly. Unfortunately, the locals keep telling stories about a Headless Horseman who rides at night looking for his next victim. This version mixes the creepy stuff with plenty of humour.
Film Screening: House of Wax | 📍The London Archives, EC1R | 29 October | (£)
Vincent Price, 1953, in an archive on Halloween. Before the film starts you hear what London's censors made of it at the time: they thought the 3D made it funny rather than scary. Popcorn and a drink included. Over 18s, doors 5.45pm, starts 6.15pm.
The Haunting | 📍The Libra Theatre Cafe, NW1 | 25, 27 & 28 October | (£)
Imagine your period arrived every month with a list of things you had to do, and refusing meant the bleeding wouldn’t stop. That’s the premise of Mimi Thompson’s one woman comedy The Haunting. The instructions start off silly, then get increasingly difficult, until Mimi is ordered to kiss her best friend’s boyfriend on the night of her birthday. Each performance lasts an hour, with something different afterwards: making tampon bunting on the 25th, a speed dating and friendship social on the 27th, and a closing night party on the 28th.
Halloween Orange Wine Tasting | 📍Amelie’s Wine House, Bloomsbury, WC1 | 30-31 October | (£)
Ever wondered why orange wine is orange? Amelie’s Wine House is using Halloween as an excuse to explain it. Their sommelier will show you how it’s made before pouring three very different examples from France and Georgia to taste together. £29 per person. 21+ only..
👻 Ghost Walks & After-Dark Adventures
After Dark at the Castle | 📍Bruce Castle, N17 | 28 - 30 October | (£)
Bruce Castle has been described as haunted since at least 1856, when a school pupil wrote about the figure that stalks the turret when everyone’s asleep. Three nights before Halloween, costumed guides take you through the candlelit rooms and share the sinister secrets hidden inside. Your £17.50 includes a glass of wine or hot chocolate. Two tours each night: 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Over 18s, book by emailing [email protected]. Note: cancellations within 48 hours incur a £5 fee.
Haunted Hampstead Walking Tour | 📍Hampstead, NW3 | Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays in October | (£)
After the sun goes down, guides take you through Hampstead’s dark passages and out onto the Heath to tell you about the murders, the disease and the spirits that never left. Sold out in 2025 so don’t hang about. £21, 7.30pm.
Capel Manor After Dark | 📍Capel Manor Gardens, EN1 | 30 October | (£)
Capel Manor has stood since the 13th century and the 17th-century manor house has never been open to the public at night, until this one evening. Torch-lit walk through 30 acres of gardens, a private tour of the manor’s upper floors, archives and footage never shown before, and ghost stories along the way. Ends with wine from Forty Hall Vineyard and nibbles. £40, over 18s, one night only. 6pm to 8pm.
North London Ghost Walks with Dr Caron Lipman | 📍Various, N1/N4/N6/N16 | Monthly | (£)
The ghosts Dr Caron Lipman tells you about don’t haunt famous buildings. They haunt the streets where you live, work and walk every day. Six routes across North London this Halloween season, from Stoke Newington Church Street to Canonbury Tower, Newington Green to Highgate Village. Two hours, maximum 15 people, £15. Check her Eventbrite for October dates.
🎃 Pumpkin Picking, Crafts & Halloween Daytime
Pumpkin Time at GROW Farm | 📍GROW Farm, N20 | 24 October | (£)
GROW Farm’s students and young people kept thirteen varieties of pumpkins alive through this summer’s drought, and on 24 October you can come and buy them. Blue Banana, Turk’s Turban, Pacific Giant and ten more, plus farm tours, kids’ activities and free homemade soup. Solidarity pricing and free tickets for those who need them. Book ahead, spaces are limited. 10am to 2pm..
Halloween at Lewis of London | 📍Lewis of London Farm, EN5 | Until 31 October | (£)
Pick-your-own pumpkins on a Barnet farm, with a fairy-tale story trail, a dare-to-dig graveyard, marshmallow toasting over fire pits, a giant spider web and homemade ice cream. SEN-friendly sessions available, and Creepy Creatures animal encounters run until 31 October, booked separately.
Kidzworld Pumpkin Patch | 📍Hampstead Heath, NW3 | 24 & 31 October | (£)
Pick your own pumpkin on Hampstead Heath, with a funfair, trick or treat maze, fun games, food stalls and a marshmallow roasting pit. 10am to 6pm both Saturdays.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Craft & Watch Party | 📍Imperfect Art, N1 | 23 October | (£)
Watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show while making something inspired by it. Imperfect Art is screening the cult musical with tables set up for collaging and bedazzling as you watch, sing along and recreate anything from those famous red lips to your favourite scene. You can also bring something from home to bedazzle instead. Materials, unlimited tea, coffee and biscuits are included. 6.30pm to 9pm. 18+ only.
Halloween Spooktacular at Capel Manor Gardens | 📍Capel Manor Gardens, EN1 | 26–31 October | (£)
This half-term, Capel Manor’s 30 acres of gardens go haunted — and the horror maze runs through the Manor House itself, in partnership with immersive horror specialists The Dread House. Every paying child picks their own pumpkin from the patch and takes it home; there’s also a deadly disco, animal talks and feeding, creepy crafts, and live entertainment across the site. Book online to save (it’s £15/£20 on the door). 10am to 4pm, last admission 2pm. Under 3s free.
Halloween Pumpkin Sip & Paint | 📍Finsbury Park Painting Club, N4 | 22 October | (£)
Pumpkin carving without the seeds all over the kitchen. Wholesome London Club and Finsbury Park Painting Club are getting people together to paint pumpkins instead, with a pumpkin, paints, drinks and snacks included. Pick your pumpkin, paint whatever you like on it and take it home afterwards. You can bring your own drinks and snacks too. 7pm to 9pm.
😎 Kids, Families & Free Events
Halloween Spooky Walks | 📍Lauderdale House, N6 | 31 October | (£)
Follow a mysterious guide through Lauderdale House and into Waterlow Park after dark, meeting weird and wonderful characters along the way before coming back for a Halloween treat. Think Halloween meets pantomime. Running for over 20 years, and every costume is made by the Lauderdale House team. Walks from 5pm, slots at 5, 5.30, 6 and 6.30pm. £12.50, concessions £9.
Islington & Crouch End Halloween Trails | 📍Upper Street, N1 & Park Road, N8 | October half-term | (£)
Dress the kids up, grab a map from David Astburys and send them loose around the neighbourhood to solve spooky clues, collect stamps and treats from local businesses, and hunt for three hidden ghosts. Last year 700 children took part in Crouch End alone. Every ticket goes to The Toy Project, a local charity that gives unwanted toys to children who need them. Two trails, two neighbourhoods, one half-term.
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Halloween at Cherry Tree Woods | 📍Cherry Tree Woods Cafe, N2 | 31 October | Free
Before heading out trick or treating, Cherry Tree Woods Cafe is getting the neighbourhood together for its annual Halloween meet up. There’ll be a monster mash soundtrack, smoke machine, goody bags and prizes for the spookiest dressed children and dogs. Hot dogs, pumpkin soup, baked potatoes, mulled cider and hot chocolate will be on sale too. 3pm to around 7pm.
Halloween Family Walk: Clerkenwell Ghosts | 📍Clerkenwell, EC1 | 29 - 30 October | Free
Grab a whistle, a rattle or a pair of pan lids and walk through Clerkenwell’s old graveyards and ghostly corners with the kids, making enough noise to scare whatever’s lurking. Free, fancy dress encouraged, 45 minutes of local ghost stories and mysterious happenings. 12pm both days.
Trick or EAT Halloween Trail | 📍Stoke Newington & Hackney | 31 October | Free
Take a bag of tins trick or treating with you this Halloween. Trick or EAT adds food bank donation stops to the usual neighbourhood trail, with homes and shops around Hackney collecting longlife food for Hackney Foodbank while families are out collecting sweets. Follow the map, drop off a tin or packet at each stop and carry on trick or treating. The idea has collected more than 14 tonnes of food since it started eight years ago. 3pm to 8pm.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Craft & Watch Party | 📍Imperfect Art, N1 | 23 October | (£)
Watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show while making something inspired by it. Imperfect Art is screening the cult musical with tables set up for collaging and bedazzling as you watch, sing along and recreate anything from those famous red lips to your favourite scene. You can also bring something from home to bedazzle instead. Materials, unlimited tea, coffee and biscuits are included. 6.30pm to 9pm. 18+ only.
Halloween Spooktacular at Capel Manor Gardens | 📍Capel Manor Gardens, EN1 | 26–31 October | (£)
This half-term, Capel Manor’s 30 acres of gardens go haunted — and the horror maze runs through the Manor House itself, in partnership with immersive horror specialists The Dread House. Every paying child picks their own pumpkin from the patch and takes it home; there’s also a deadly disco, animal talks and feeding, creepy crafts, and live entertainment across the site. Book online to save (it’s £15/£20 on the door). 10am to 4pm, last admission 2pm. Under 3s free.
Halloween Pumpkin Sip & Paint | 📍Finsbury Park Painting Club, N4 | 22 October | (£)
Pumpkin carving without the seeds all over the kitchen. Wholesome London Club and Finsbury Park Painting Club are getting people together to paint pumpkins instead, with a pumpkin, paints, drinks and snacks included. Pick your pumpkin, paint whatever you like on it and take it home afterwards. You can bring your own drinks and snacks too. 7pm to 9pm.
Halloween Family Workshop | 📍Little Angel Theatre, N1 | 31 October | £10 adults / £10 children
Little Angel Theatre’s Halloween craft workshop for ages 5 to 9 — roughly an hour of making, creating and getting into the spirit at Islington’s beloved puppet theatre. Adults must accompany children and everyone needs their own ticket.
Spooky Spiders Halloween Craft | 📍Bruce Castle, N17 | 28 October | Free
Weave your own spider web and hide a creepy spider in it, at Bruce Castle’s free Halloween drop-in for children aged 5 and over. No booking needed, just turn up. 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
The Zone After Dark: Halloween Monster Mash Disco | 📍Edmonton, N9 | 30 October | (£)
A Halloween party for the kids and a couple of child free hours for the parents. Primary school aged children can be dropped off at The Zone for a supervised evening of dancing, face painting, apple bobbing, spooky games and prizes, with food, drinks and a Halloween treat included. Adults can stay if their child would rather have them nearby, but spaces for grown ups are limited. 5.30pm to 8pm. Advance booking required.
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