Tickets for London Month of the Dead events go faster than a sprinting zombie from 28 Days Later.
But the tail end of this year offers up another chance to immerse yourself in the team's spine-tinglingly informative brand of entertainment, namely Gothic Christmas.
A long weekend of frighteningly festive sessions unfolds between Friday 5 December and Sunday 7 December 2025, in hospital chapels and icy-cold alleyways, including:
🍷 Gothic Yuletide: Effervescent booze historian Dr Matthew Green leads an after-dusk stroll around the city, accompanied by actors, musicians — and a generous supply of piping-hot medieval wine. (5 December)
🍴 Dark Feasts: Take a seat at the table of Dr Alessandra Pino — author of A Gothic Cookbook — as she leads you through an imagined literary menu of raisin tarts and steaming hot negus. One of the items that's very much real is the hot gin punch that accompanies most of these Gothic Christmas events. (6 December)
🏮 A Phantasmagoric Christmas: Find yourself enveloped in a vapour of goblins, ghosts and seasonal mischief, as a Victorian-style magic lantern show plays out in front of your eyes in Guy's Chapel, London Bridge. (6 December)
👻 Casting the Runes: Nunkie Theatre bid you to gather around and feast on Casting the Runes, a chilling ghost story by M.R. James, concerning a Mr. Karswell — magic lanternist, historian of the occult and scourge of the academic establishment. Another of James' lesser-circulated seasonal tales, The Residence at Whitminster, is also spun. (7 December)
That's a mere taster of the gothic events in the offing, guaranteed to offset any seasonal saccharine sentimentality. As with London Month of the Dead, however, Gothic Christmas tickets are liable to sell out — indeed certain events already have.
Unlike many of the subjects of this spectre-riddled mini-festival then, you'd better look lively.
Gothic Christmas, 5-7 December 2025
