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Spooky Book Tour: Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde and more!

London is home to and inspiration for some of the most terrifying horror stories ever written. The Spooky Book Tour brings them to life.


Bookmarked London is a walking tour company that focusses exclusively on London's rich bookish history.
As this is our only nighttime tour, we throw in a couple of ghost stories for good measure.

The Route

In this 90-minute tour, you'll walk in the footsteps of the creators of Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and several terrifying others.

See where Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dickens and others took inspiration to craft some of the most macabre and terrifying ghost stories ever put to paper.

We begin in the heart of London's legal district and conclude by a depiction of the decomposing corpse of one of the city's greatest writers.

The route is gentle and accessible. We begin the tour outside the Shakespeare's Head pub on Kingsway which is one minute from Holborn station and conclude just across the road from Charing Cross.

Run by Bookmarked founder, Adam RW, the Spooky Book Tour is devilishly delightful and is one of our most popular routes. 

Bookmarked Tours

Our tours are unique - history tour meets book club meets poetry reading. 

For more information about Bookmarked, visit our website bookmarkedlondon.com. 

The tour lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes
Available in English

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Guiding since 2026
Hello! We're Bookmarked London - an independent group of London writers, poets and actors who are in love with London's rich literary and bookish history. All our tours focus on the bookish side of London and the inspiration some of the greatest writers of all time have taken from this wonderful city. All Bookmarked tours are run by either Adam, a local writer and poet, or Leo, a local actor and writer. Adam is a full-time tour guide, poet, writer, event host, (recovering) lawyer, football fan and keen hiker. His first poetry collection Poetry Will Have To Do was published in December 2023 and he runs a weekly storytelling night called Storytime London. He also manages and runs Bookmarked, which runs these literary walking tours, as his full-time job. Leo is an actor and writer. He has appeared on Waterloo Road and Doctor Who on the BBC and he played the lead in Creation Stories, a film about the life of Alan McGee. He is also a stage actor and founded and ran the theatre company, Gutter Street.

8 stops
1.9 km walking
1 hour and 30 minutes
Meeting point:Punto de encuentroI'll be standing outside the Shakespeare's Head pub on Kingsway holding a leatherbound book. The pub is one minute from Holborn underground station.Open in Google Maps
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Outside visit
Lincoln's Inn Fields
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Outside visit
Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Outside visit
Royal Courts of Justice

Spooky Book Tour: Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde and more!
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