Roll up, roll up and enter Stokerland, a free, pop-up Victorian fun park for families and the eternally young! Now an annual festival highlight for Dubliners of all ages, it’s the perfect family-fun-day out this October bank holiday weekend in Dublin.

Step into the historic and atmospheric Dublin Castle for a fiery festival highlight like no other: Frank & McStein’s Monster Laboratory! Over three spellbinding nights, witness science’s greatest and most terrible achievement of all time at this interactive fire show – if you dare!

For over three centuries, Ireland’s oldest public library has stood in Saint Patrick’s Close, right on the edge of the Cathedral graveyard. Among its early readers was an 18-year-old Bram Stoker, who first visited Marsh’s Library on 4 July 1866. He would later return to study maps of Transylvania and texts about Vlad Dracul – we wonder why?!

In collaboration with IFI Horrorthon, Slaughterhouse are invading the IFI, for one night only, and turning it into the Slaughterhouse of Horrors, featuring Seanchoíche, a storytelling night which has sold out events across the world

Join visual artist Carrie Lynam for a vibrant exploration of colour and texture at this drop-in mask-making workshop. Draw inspiration from the intriguing objects displayed throughout the National Museum: Decorative Arts and History’s galleries and unleash your creativity to design and construct unique faces or characters.

Schola Hyberniae invite you to an evening of ancient chant, reviving haunting melodies that weave tales of life and death, the miraculous and the supernatural, heaven and hell. Drawing from the rich tradition of Gregorian chant and ancient Irish manuscripts, this performance brings our vibrant Irish cultural heritage to vivid life.