EVENT: BRAM STOKER FESTIVAL
The festival with bite returns to Dublin for the Halloween weekend, celebrating the author of Dracula with events, screenings, talks and frightful fun for all the family - find out more about this year's programme here, and enter our Bram Stoker hub here.
STREAMING: WENDELL & WILD
The new stop-motion animation from Coraline director Henry Selick concerns scheming demon brothers (Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele, who also wrote the script) hatching a wicked plan to defeat their arch-nemesis while helping a young girl dealing with tragedy - it might be a little scary for very young viewers, but everyone else will have a ball (Netflix, now available).
KIDS: CON MÓR, THE GIANT
Macnas are inviting kids and grown-ups to join them in welcoming a very special visitor to Galway this Halloween weekend! The masters of visual storytelling invite one and all to come down to Macnas HQ at Fisheries Field, Galway to see the ginormous Con Mór emerge for the first time on the banks of the River Corrib, for 48 hours only - find out more here.
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MUSIC: ONE LEG ONE EYE
And Take the Black Worm With Me is the new album from Lankum's Ian Lynch, an ominous folk epic offering listeners the perfect Halloween soundtrack - find out more here.
SPECTACLE: DERRY HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL
The real home of Samhain in Ireland is Derry City - this weekend, take the trip up north and enjoy the City Of Bones along the city walls, then enter the Forest Of Shadows in Columb's Park, capped off by a truly spectacular fireworks display - find out more here.
