The best places to go in London this Halloween

The month of ghouls, pumpkins and one-too-many toffee apples has crept up on us once again. But hey - it’s one of the best holidays on the calendar, right?

In the lead up to Halloween 2017 (Tuesday October 31), London’s cauldron is brimming with all kinds of wicked and wonderful things to do.

Whether you’re a student looking for a great night out with friends, or you want something that will entertain the entire family, read our little list on where to go for the best tricks and treats the capital has to offer.

Credit: The London Dungeons.

The one with the history: The London Dungeon’s Death Express Tickets: From £21.

This is definitely an event for you and your friends or significant other to enjoy - the tour guides of these Dungeons will often get their audience to come forward and help with their bizarre experiments… Or sometimes, you’re the experiment. It’s all a load of fun, really!

The Death Express takes you on a trip through 1000 years to endure London’s rather disturbing past. Get ready to pass through houses riddled with plague (we know you’ve always wanted to do that), a cosy torture chamber and the eerie streets of East London and the Whitechapel Labyrinth.

Then, you can hop onto a 19th century railway that transported the dead… Don’t worry - you’ll get off alive, but it’ll be a ride to remember for better or worse!

Hurry - The Death Express ceases on November 4.

The one with the party: Hocus Pocus Halloween at The Book Club Tickets: From £5.

Based in Shoreditch is a quaint cafe packed with workshops, poetry classes and music all day long… But for Halloween, it’s been transformed into a nostalgic film screening and ’90s rave.

On Saturday October 28 from 4.30pm, The Book Club has teamed up with the Sanderson sisters (not literally, sorry) of childhood classic, Hocus Pocus to deliver a themed evening of magic, bewitching Halloween tunes and vintage Sarah Jessica Parker.

Sketch the sisters in all their glory with Art Macabre, sip on far too many (alcoholic) potions, paint your face and get ready to dance the night away from 8pm with a never-ending mixture of ’90s and ’00s classics!

Credit: Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter.

The one with the family fun: Harry Potter Studios’ Dark Arts Tickets: From £29.

Running until Sunday November 12, get ready to explore the eerie world of the Dark Arts as Harry Potter Studios show you the sinister side to the successful franchise.

The Great Hall has been decorated with over 100 floating pumpkins - 10 points for guessing which film this is from - and the tables have been covered in a ridiculously extravagant feast of cauldrons brimming with sweets, pumpkins and red apples.

What’s more, the whole family can take part in duels with Death Eaters and test out wand techniques. If you aren’t one for getting in on the action, you can always catch the original Death Eater costumes from the film series on display… Butterbeer not included, sadly.

The one with the ride: The Ghost Bus Tours Tickets: From £15.

Explore London town at night in a refurbished vintage double-decker. Kitted out in true Halloween fashion, you’ll hear tales from a rather odd (or so they say) conductor, telling stories of murder, execution and hauntings from the capital’s murky past. You know, all that lovely, gory stuff we love.

The London Necrobus Company is offering a sightseeing show with actors aplenty and tech trickery onboard - prepare for a bumpy, unsettling ride.

The one with the films: The Luna Cinema Halloween Special Tickets: From £8.75

Situated just outside Central London at Hampton Court Palace, but well worth the visit!

Choose from three films (or choose all three and go to each night, we won’t judge) including Beetlejuice (October 30), The Silence of the Lambs (October 31), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (November 1). Doors into the event open at 6pm for all films.

There’s something for the whole family! Although we wouldn’t recommend you take the kids to see Silence of the Lambs, you might want to leave that one until they’re a bit older…

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