The best thrillers and scary shows to see in London this Halloween season.
Step into the shadows with our top West End picks for the Halloween season, including London’s most spine-tingling thrillers, musical murder mysteries, ghostly tales and dark delights for October and November 2026.
Spooky West End shows
Spooky, spectacular and magical long-running West End shows include Stranger Things: The First Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre; Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre; Andrew Lloyd Webber’s haunting musical The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre; Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at St Martin’s Theatre; the magical world of Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre; and travel to the underworld in bewitching new musical Hadestown at the Lyric Theatre.
There are also lots of musicals and plays running over the Halloween season – see what’s on in October.
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