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Next level horror: Halloween things to do near Manchester and Liverpool

By: Sarah Tierney

Updated: 9 September 2025

If your idea of a top night out includes dead-eyed clowns, crooked-neck zombies, and a lingering sense of unspoken evil, this is for you.

Here we’ve brought together the North West’s most disturbing, unsettling, and downright terrifying scare attractions including Scare City and Newsham Scream Park. Get ready to get seriously spooked with our Halloween things to do for adults, all within easy drive of Manchester and Liverpool.

Want details of Halloween events and one-offs? Check out our what’s on guide: Halloween 2025 in Manchester and Liverpool.

  • A deranged scarecrow at Farmageddon, a Halloween attraction in the North West of England.
    Ormskirk

    Farmageddon

    Activities

    Farmageddon is the big one. Every year it’s a sellout, welcoming thousands of willing lambs to the slaughter. There are enough fright actors here to keep every repertory company in the North busy.

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  • An uncanny doll waits for you in the Cabinet of Curiosities at Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
    Blackpool

    Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach

    Activities

    Journey to Hell at Blackpool Pleasure Beach is a mixture of live action horror thrills, a scare maze and terrifying rides – all as part of a series of gruesome scare zones.

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  • A hooded ghoul at Newsham Scream Park - one of our Halloween things to do near Manchester and Liverpool.
    Tuebrook

    Newsham Scream Park

    Activities

    Once an orphanage and later an asylum, the derelict Newsham Park Hospital has been attracting ghost hunters and urban explorers for years. The  atmosphere in its maze of abandoned wards and crumbling corridors is enough to make most people turn around and leg it straight back home – and that was even before it was made into Newsham Scream Park.

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  • One of the creepy fellows at Scare City, a Halloween scare attraction in the North West of England.
    Chorley

    Scare City

    Activities

    Scare City takes over the abandoned Camelot theme park for a completely immersive Halloween scare event.

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  • Channel Zero is the new scare zone at Spooky World - one of our Halloween things to do near Manchester and Liverpool
    Warrington

    Spooky World

    Activities

    Spooky World comes in three strengths of spookiness. There’s Fun by Day which is all smiling pumpkins and friendly ghosts for small children. Then, there’s Spooky at Night for age ten and over which is basically a diluted version of the main event: Scary at Night.

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