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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 10 travelers
Overview
This is a unique walk, that reveals London’s dark history. We always run this walk at night time so that we capture the perfect atmosphere for the stories we will tell.
What's included
A professional guide who created this walk
Tips
What to expect
Inns of Court
15m
• Gothic architecture influencing dark Victorian literature
• Lawyers, secrecy, power & punishment in literature
• Dickens’s obsession with law and injustice.
Fleet Street
15m
• Victorian newspapers & penny dreadfuls
• Birthplace of sensational crime stories
• Sweeney Todd legend (fiction + fear culture)
Holborn
20m
• Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary
• Writers living in poverty, obsession, madness
• The isolation of genius
Charles Dickens
• Workhouses, child labour, prisons and how it was used in Oliver Twist, Bleak House
Bloomsbury
15m
• Victorian fascination with death & séances
• Influence on Bram Stoker & gothic fiction
• Fear of the unknown in industrial London
The British Museum
10m
Walk by the museum
Obsession with the past, curses, stolen artefacts
• Gothic fiction’s fear of ancient knowledge
• Writers inspired by history are turning it “dark”
Fitzrovia
15m
• Oscar Wilde
• Genius, queerness, censorship
• Public downfall & literary punishment
• The dark cost of truth and beauty
Meeting and pickup
Meeting point
We meet just outside the station at the Victoria embankment entrance
End point
Additional information
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
