Dark Dublin, Dracula, Bram Stoker & Other Horrors

A guided walking tour group gathered on stone steps beneath an old iron gateway in Dublin, wrapped up against the cold as they explore the city's dark and storied past.
A vivid street art mural of Count Dracula, fangs bared and cape spread, painted on a utility box in Dublin — a colourful nod to the city's gothic legacy and Bram Stoker's most famous creation.
Visitors gather among the towering oak bookcases of Marsh's Library, Dublin's oldest public library, filled with centuries-old volumes — a fitting stop for tracing the roots of Irish gothic literature.

Friday, 23 October 2026 - Monday, 26 October 2026

Event times:

14:30 - 16:45

Event location:

Tree of Gold, Central Plaza (meeting point)

Event price:

€27.00

About this event

Dublin has worn its darkness for centuries — bodysnatching, murder, rebellion, torture, hangings, hauntings, plague. No wonder gothic master Bram Stoker was born and bred here. Join us for a walk through it all — if you dare!

Bram Stoker may be Ireland's most famous writer worldwide — even rivalling James Joyce, though that's a debate for another day. Building on a lineage of Irish horror writers, Stoker gave the world Dracula, a tale of devilishness that has gripped the global imagination like no other work of fiction.

This walk explores Stoker's work against his own era and the millennia of Irish stories of evil spirits and our uneasy pact with the Underworld. A thousand years of foreign occupation left Dublin steeped in blood, fear and persecution — darkness that fed the imagination. We'll revel in his predecessors too: Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Oscar Wilde, each conjuring their own vision of the Other World.

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