Creepy Things To Do In London

• Location: 27 Hackney Road, Unit 11, Hackney, E2 8GY
• Price: from £48 per person 
• Why we recommend: there's film-grade set design, live theatrical drama, and magical special effects - we love how it draws you into a shadowy plot where you must conspire with inmates to fulfill a prophecy and break free

Descend into the dark underbelly of the arcane at Hexmoor: Wizarding Prison, a themed bar from the creators of Alcotraz and Avora. Once locked away behind cell bars, guests don official prison jumpsuits and rub shoulders with the sinister dark arts criminals serving life sentences in the fortress. B

During your sentence, the block's resident 'hexologists' serve up three colour-shifting, high-concept cocktail alchemy concoctions designed to dampen - or enhance - your magical abilities. 

• Location: Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster, SE1 7PB
• Price: from £27 per person
• Why we recommend: this is one of the top spooky things to do in London, as the famous attraction brings together over 1,000 years of gruesome history, told through brilliant performers and sets 

The London Dungeon is an immersive, walk-through attraction that brings 1,000 years of London's darkest history to life through 13 interactive shows, 360-degree sets, and 20 live theatrical actors. You'll encounter infamous figures like Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd, witness dramatic tales like Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot, and brave the exhilarating Drop Dead drop ride.

Tickets start from £27 per person when booked in advance, with flexible 'Anytime Entry' and multi-attraction bundle discounts (combining entry with spots like the London Eye or Madame Tussauds) available. 

• Location: 8 Northumberland Avenue, West End, WC2N 5BY
• Price: from £17 per person
• Why we recommend: you're bound to leave here knowing more about London's past and its dark side, and we love how they combine a classic London bus with all things gothic

Step aboard the London Ghost Bus Tour, where chills meet city thrills. For just £17, grab your ticket and prepare for a 75-minute ride through the shadows of London's haunted history.

Onboard the eerie Necrobus, you'll pass iconic landmarks like Westminster Abbey, Fleet Street, and the Tower of London as your ghoulish conductor dishes out dark tales of unmarked graves, haunted palaces, and more spine-tingling secrets. Ready for a frightful night out? Buckle up and see if you can handle it.

• Location: Prince Edward Theatre, Old Compton Street, London, W1D 4HS
• Price: from £25 per person
• Why we recommend: where else can you spend a night with a sharply-dressed demon with killer comic timing?

Tim Burton's gothic classic Beetlejuice is coming to stage at the Prince Edward Theatre. With a cracking score, superb set design and incredible cast, it's got all the gothic glamour of the silver screen smash hit.

You'll laugh, gasp and almost certainly sing along as everyone's favourite loudmouthed demon strikes up an unlikely friendship with surly teenager Lydia Deetz. Tickets to the year-long run start from just £25.

• Location: 8 Canter Way, Aldgate, E1 8PS
• Price: from £30 per person
• Why we recommend: this experience allows you to fully get involved in the scares, and we always leave this place with our hearts racing thanks to the augmented reality thrills

After scary and unusual things to do in London? Yup. Get ready for a spooky experience at Aldgate's AIM Escape, where dangerous areas and creepy corners will put your puzzle-solving skills to the test, alongside the use of augmented reality to make it even more spine-tingling.

They've even got an outdoor experience which uses high-tech equipment to make you feel like you're somewhere totally new - with prices starting from £30 per person.

• Location: 3rd floor, 51 Oxford Street, W1D 2EF
• Price: from £35 per person
• Why we recommend: this is an award-winning escape room that's all about spooks, using unique techniques to scare you in an immersive experience

Located in the heart of London with sites in Oxford Street and Aldgate, this scary escape room is sure to send a chill down your spine. No Escape will have you racing through devilish dentist offices and haunted barber shops across 60 minutes.

This immersive horror experience in London has won several awards over the years, seeing groups work together to avoid a terrifying fate. Do you have what it takes?

• Location: across London
• Price: no entry fee
• Why we recommend: everyone loves a good trip to the pub, but fans of the macabre can spice things up a little by drinking at one of these devilish dens while soaking up their rich history

Even going for a pint can be a little creepy in this city, as its historic pubs have got many eerie tales to tell. There are plenty of boozers around London that are said to be haunted, and we've rounded up the very best for you to visit.

From a Hampstead favourite The Spaniard's Inn that's said to be haunted by Dick Turpin to a Viaduct Tavern in the City that's experienced lots of poltergeist activity over the years or Jack the Ripper's local The Ten Bells, these picks aren't for the fainthearted.

• Location: across London
• Price: £16.50 per person
• Why we recommend: these quirky outdoor adventures are a great way to put your mystery solving skills to the test, and you can stop off at all kinds of spooky locations on the way

With events in both Blackfriars and Holborn, StreetHunt Games is the perfect way to explore creepy areas while solving puzzles and challenges, in a unique outdoor escape room experience. This combination between scavenger hunts and murder mysteries is led entirely by you, using your phone to guide the team.

Groups of up to 10 players can take part, as you crack the code to your uncle's mysterious death or act as a private investigator. Plus, you'll get to see spooky sights like Lincoln's Inn Fields, where ghosts have often been spotted, or ancient burial site Whitefriars Crypt.

• Location: across London
• Price: from £15 per person
• Why we recommend: you'll learn something new about London's past every time you take a tour with this lot, and their theatrical walks offer something that no one else does, focusing on female history

Giving you a chance to learn about London's more sinister side, Herstorical Tours is a female-led group that offers spine-chilling walking tours across the city. These tales are brought to life by acting, comedy and fun, guided by experts on the subjects.

They offer multiple different choices of tour, each lasting one or two hours and starting from just £15 per person. You'll hear about mystics, witchcraft, sex workers and more - both about who they were and how they were often mistreated.

• Location: Outside Barbican tube station, Aldersgate St, EC1A 4JA
• Price: £16.50 per person
• Why we recommend: be warned... By the end of the walk, it will feel like there's a serial killer around almost every corner

If you like to spend your evenings wandering in the footsteps of serial killers, this is the walking tour for you. Across two hours, you'll discover what makes London's most notorious murderers tick as you make your way from Barbican to Holborn.

Author of Bloody London, Declan McHugh, is on hand to provide the facts, tension, chills and humour along the way. Grab your tickets to this wicked wander for just £16.50.

• Location: The Monument to the Great Fire of London, Fish Street Hill, London, EC3R 8AH
• Price: from £22
• Why we recommend: see the city in all its ghostly glory, from an all-new thrilling perspective. 

Magic, Mystics and Martyrs will take you on a supernatural journey from Monument to Tower Hill, introducing you to the ghosts of some lesser known lady mystics, witches and rebels that have been said to haunt the streets of central London. 

You'll come across a few ghoulish characters on this walk, from an infamous phantom lady to the notorious Billingsgate fish wives, as well as women that lost their heads (literally). And when the historic tales and theatrical surprises are wrapped up, you'll get to end your experience with a tipple at the Hung, Drawn and Quartered pub.

• Location: 123, Grays inn Road, London, WC1X 8WD
• Price: £38.50
• Why we recommend: prepare to get completely sucked into this science-gone-wrong adventure that combines theatre and interactivity to create something immersive to a terrifying extent 

From the brains of immersive experience-pioneers COLAB, comes a creepy quarantine-centric theatre show and interactive mystery set inside a contaminated dental school.

At SPORE, you'll be free to explore abandoned treatment rooms and labs as you set out to uncover the building's dark secrets and what you're next move should be in order to save more lives being lost. Recover evidence, collect samples and make contact with whatever monstrous organism has taken over this facility. 

• Location: 13 Cambridge Street, Pimlico, SW1V 4PR
• Price: varies
• Why we recommend: we think it marries the adrenaline rush of a top-tier escape room with the polish of a cocktail lounge. The puzzles and theatrical smoked cocktails make it a brilliantly atmospheric choice for dates, group outings, and immersive thrill-seekers

If you have a taste for the uncanny, step through the threshold of Purgatory Bar for an unsettlingly stylish adventure just minutes from Victoria. Before settling in among the ominous floor-to-ceiling stonework and dramatic fiery red accents, brave visitors can test their nerve inside 'The Gates of Hell', the venue's flagship escape room crafted by No Escape London.

Designed to push your puzzle-solving skills to the edge in an atmospheric setting, it offers a spine-tingling challenge. Afterwards, calm your nerves with devilishly creative concoctions like the Fallen Angel.