Get into the spirit this Halloween with a range of spooky experiences taking place across Edinburgh.
Halloween is fast approaching and where better to celebrate it than Edinburgh, one of Europe’s most haunted cities.
We’ve compiled a list of some of the best things to see, do and experience in the city this spooky season, to ensure you have a frightfully good time!
Halloween at the LEGO Store
The LEGO Store in St James Quarter will be transformed into a mini haunted playground, offering free family-friendly experiences and exclusive Halloween goodies at their Halloween at the LEGO Store event.
Families visiting the LEGO Store can enjoy various spooky surprises from pumpkin hunts, witch builds, passport stamps and Frankenstein headband giveaways.
Halloween at the LEGO Store will take place from 24 to 31 October 2025.
Craig-thriller Castle: Halloween Shenanigans
Craigmillar Castle’s Master of Owls will be on hand at Craig-thriller Castle: Halloween Shenanigans to introduce you his collection of owls in the eerie setting of the Castle.
Meet Ravina who will be telling some scary tales, learn how the jack o’lantern came to be, and hear some Halloween riddles and songs. There may even be some magic too!
Craig-thriller Castle is on 25 and 26 October 2025.
Halloween at Edinburgh Zoo
Join Edinburgh Zoo for a morning of fun with Beasties and Broomsticks Brunch. Come face to face with some of the zoo’s slippery and slimy residents, followed by breakfast and craft workshops. Or try your hand at creating a tasty treat for the zoo’s animals at Carve a Treat.
Available on specific dates from 25 to 26 October 2025.
Halloween Tales at Trinity House
Trinity House’s resident storyteller will be sharing tales of mysterious ships, strange superstitions, hangings, and vanishings. Halloween Tales includes a twilight tour of Trinity House and the lantern lit 16th century vaults. Suitable for 12+ years.
While the Little Ones Halloween Tales is suitable for 5+ years.
Both events run from 27 to 28 October 2025.
Halloween Wine & Crisps Night
Mara’s popular Wine & Crisps event is back and this time, it’s dressed for Halloween.
Expect ghostly bubbles, devilishly good snacks, and pairings that’ll raise your spirits. Think elegant Medici Ermete Lambrusco Dolce paired with Spicy Monster Munch, and other wicked combinations that’ll haunt your taste buds in the best way. They’ll even be a prize for the best costume. Open to 18+years only.
Halloween Wine & Crisps Night is on 30 October 2025.
The Great Divinator at Edinburgh Horror Festival
As part of the Edinburgh Horror Festival programme, The Great Divinator is back in for one night only with his cult hit outrageous Victorian seance show Touched By Spirits.
Expect vintage mind reading, hilarious audience participation and a couple of spooky surprises along the way in this evening of mind reading, drag and comedy.
See The Great Divinator on 30 October 2025.
Brewhemia’s Halloween Drag Brunch
This Halloween, Brewhemia – Scotland’s only Beer Palace and the city’s largest venue – are offering a Halloween brunch spooktacular fit for a queen.
Don your favourite gothic attire and join their drag stars for fierce frights, top-notch brunching, mimosas on arrival and unforgettable performances.
Event runs on 30 October 2025.
Unholy – Midnight Alt Events
Taking place at Roxy Theatre, Unholy – Midnight Alt Events is a night of dark enchantment, unearthly talent, and ritualistic celebration.
Featuring cabaret, live music, candlelight séances, tarot readings, spooky artists, raffle, games, a Witch’s Brew Bar and food offerings, this is an alternative Halloween ball summoned from the shadows.
Unholy – Midnight Alt Events is on 31 October 2025.
Fright Night: Silent Movie Screening
Silent Screen Scotland returns to Edinburgh with Fright Night: Silent Movie Screening – a candlelit screening of Nosferatu accompanied by live score.
The dramatic surroundings of the Institut français d’Écosse on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile will provide the perfect spooky atmospheric setting. Accompanied by a live pianist performing the original score by Hans Erdmann, this classic of the horror genre from 1922 will be projected onto a 13-foot screen.
Fright Night: Silent Movie Screening takes place on 31 October 2025.
Adult & Child Half Day Halloween Baking
Spend a fun-filled time together creating spooky seasonal bakes with Edinburgh New Town Cookery School’s Adult & Child Half Day Halloween Baking.
Designed for children aged 9 to 16 and their favourite adult, bake a selection of themed treats, including pumpkin spiced cupcakes, toffee apple bars, mummy sausage rolls, and a ghostly fougasse, all of which are perfect for sharing.
Workshop takes place on 31 October 2025.
Halloween at Craigies
Alongside their popular pick-your-own pumpkins, Craigies Farm at South Queensferry is hosting a variety of Halloween thrills.
They’ve poured thrills, fun, and spooky energy into their daytime experience, with activities, entertainment and more for the whole family to enjoy. This is Craigies like you’ve never seen it before.
So grab your wellies, round up your pumpkin loving besties, and head to the farm for a full day of autumn adventure. From hunting down your perfect pumpkin to launching one across the field with the legendary pumpkin catapult, this is the ultimate seasonal day out.
Halloween at Craigies takes place from 01 October to 31 October 2025.
Lantern Led Tours with The Real Mary King’s Close
Step down onto forgotten streets and shine a light onto Edinburgh’s past with The Real Mary King’s Close.
On the atmospheric Lantern Led Tour guests will be able to step beneath the Royal Mile and shine a light on the past by descending the historic steps leading down from The Royal Mile onto Mary King’s Close.
Learn about the lives and deaths of real people who used to roam the streets of Edinburgh. You’ll also meet a rather insidious character from the 17th century along the way.
The tour runs on selected dates from 11 to 31 October 2025.
Conifox Halloween Festival
The Adventure Park at Kirkliston, around 10 miles from Edinburgh city centre, is fully geared up for the excitement of Halloween.
Their Halloween Days programme includes a pumpkin patch, disco, games and funfair rides. At dark descends, it’s time for Halloween Fireworks Nights – pay a visit to the funhouse of fear maze, witches labyrinth and broomstick flying school. Gasp at the thrilling fire performer and fireworks display or show off your best moves at the devilish disco.
Halloween events take place on selected dates from 11 to 31 October 2025.
Distillery After Dark – Halloween at Holyrood
This Halloween, Holyrood Distillery invites you to Distillery After Dark – an evening of dark tales of Edinburgh’s past, alongside their finest spirits.
Enjoy a rum toddy as you hear tales of surgeons, murderers and witches. In the Spirits Lab, discover the sinister history of gin. Taste Black Cork, an experimental spirit inspired by a lost Edinburgh beer, then end the evening in the candlelit Cask Room with a dram of whisky. 18+ years only.
Distillery After Dark takes place on 31 October 2025.
Haunted Drams – Ghost & Whisky Experience
Step into the shadows of Edinburgh’s dark past on this spine-tingling walking tour through the Old Town’s most haunted close and forgotten corners.
On Haunted Drams – Ghost & Whisky Experience you’ll uncover chilling tales of witches and executions and learn what fate awaited those accused in the 16th century. Then, descend beneath the city streets into The Lost Close, a hidden underground space steeped in history, where you’ll savour two drams of premium Scotch whisky as you delve deeper into Edinburgh’s dark past. Listen to stories of both spirits and the spirit, where history, legend, and whisky intertwine.
Tours run on 31 October and 01 November 2025.
Halloween at Pickering’s Gin
As darkness falls over this historic distillery, a new kind of spirit awakens. Join Pickering’s Gin for two unforgettable Halloween experiences.
At the immersive Halloween Cocktail Masterclass, you’ll be guided through the secrets of their eerie elixirs, mastering the balance between flavour, aroma, and spectacle.
Or explore the world of potions, elixirs, and perfectly matched bites at Halloween Cheese & Cocktail. Guided by expert mixologists and cheese connoisseurs, you’ll discover how to craft cocktails that intrigue the senses and pair them with bold, unexpected flavours that awaken the palate.
Each event runs on selected dates between 24 October and 02 November 2025.
Frightful Fun at Dynamic Earth
Turn fear into fascination this October with Frightful Fun at Dynamic Earth.B
Become the ultimate myth-buster and discover the creatures that inspired well-known myths and legends. From Halloween favourites including zombies, vampires and Frankenstein’s Monster, to legends from Scottish folklore such as selkies and the Loch Ness Monster.
Get involved in spooky Seasonal Sessions with science clubs for under 6s; start your day with a scare in their Planetarium with Halloween family films, or stay up after dark with the adults-only Planetarium Lates showings.
Join in the fun from 03 October to 02 November 2025.
Halloween Happenings at Dalkeith Country Park
Located around 10 miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Dalkeith Country Park’s Halloween Happenings runs throughout the school holidays and is packed with family-friendly activities.
The park’s spooky season includes cookie decorating workshops, hands-on Halloween workshops for children, and brand-new experience where you can explore the spooky woods of Fort Douglas.
Join in the fun from 03 October to 02 November 2025.
Halloween Hunt at Camera Obscura & World of Illusions Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s oldest visitor attraction, Camera Obscura & World of Illusions Edinburgh are getting into the Halloween spirit with all kinds of spooky fun – dare you brave the ghostly projections, scary portraits and hair-raising photo ops!
They’ve also created a Haunting Halloween Hunt – track down all the creepy characters lurking around the building and collect a sweet treat reward.
Available daily from 11 October to 02 November 2025.
Halloween Tours at Mercat Tours
Unveiling the spirits of Edinburgh’s deepest underground and darkest tales, join walking tour company, Mercat Tours for a programme of spine-tingling tours.
Their Halloween Tours include visits to Edinburgh’s haunted underground vaults, exploring the spirit of Halloween in the Old Town, a ghost tour of the city’s spookier closes and vaults, and visiting Canongate graveyard under cover of darkness. Please note, some tours are adults only.
Events run on selected dates from 25 October to 02 November 2025.
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