London Dark Pages - Literary London After Dark Discount Tickets

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location pin icon Fleet Street, London, Greater London, EC4Y, England
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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.

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Temple Place, England, WC2R 2PH, United Kingdom

We meet just outside the station at the Victoria embankment entrance

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Inns of Court
• Gothic architecture influencing dark Victorian literature • Lawyers, secrecy, power & punishment in literature • Dickens’s obsession with law and injustice.
Duration: 15 mins
2. Fleet Street
• Victorian newspapers & penny dreadfuls • Birthplace of sensational crime stories • Sweeney Todd legend (fiction + fear culture)
Duration: 15 mins
3. Holborn
• 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
Duration: 20 mins
4. Bloomsbury
• Victorian fascination with death & séances • Influence on Bram Stoker & gothic fiction • Fear of the unknown in industrial London
Duration: 15 mins
5. The British Museum
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”
Duration: 10 mins
6. Fitzrovia
• Oscar Wilde • Genius, queerness, censorship • Public downfall & literary punishment • The dark cost of truth and beauty
Duration: 15 mins

Inclusion

A professional guide who created this walk

Exclusion

Tips

Cancellation Policy

Check mark icon Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

  • 100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
  • 0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Supplied by Compleat Walks

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