Once Upon A Midnight Dreary - A Halloween Ball

Enter the Dream within a Dream that is our Halloween tribute to the Master of the Macabre - Edgar Allan Poe. Mount the 100 stairs to the Century Club to enter four floors and Soho’s largest roof terrace dedicated to a celebration of murderers and madmen, revenants and revengers, fatal passions and premature burials.

THE GARDEN OF NEVERMORE
Party into oblivion on the rooftop garden where the damned souls of murderers return to Earth in the guise of ravens.

On the decks:
Snare Surgeon and Clan Dextine

On the cabaret stage:
Moreno Perna, Scarlett O'Hora, Yazz, Lydia Darling and Smashlyn Monroe

PRINCE PROSPERO’S CASTLE from The Masque of the Red Death.

To seek sanctuary from the deadly pestilence known as the Red Death the happy and dauntless and sagacious Prince Prospero and his aristocratic entourage have sequestered themselves inside his castellated abbey. Join them in a masquerade of the most unusual magnificence, but do not stray into the Black Chamber or approach the sinister, gaunt figure shrouded in the habiliments of the grave who lurks there.

Featuring performances by Troylus Searll, They Last Drop, The Balkanoes and Jamie Moon

Other areas include:

THE CONDEMNED CELL from The Pit and the Pendulum.
Join the forgotten prisoners cast into the DUNGEON OF THE GRAND INQUISITOR.

THE HOUSE OF USHER from the Fall of the House of Usher
Above a black and lurid tarn encompassed by decayed trees stands a melancholy mansion hung with sombre tapestries and armorial trophies. Here in the all-pervading gloom dwells RODERICK, the insane last scion of the ancient race of the USHERS.

THE SALON - While away the dreary hours of seclusion with BEATRICE DE LARRAGOITI and KARL LUTCHMAYER performing candlelit dirges on the theme of death and madness.

THE TOMB OF THE USHERS - Descend to the ancestral burial chamber, select a velvet-lined coffin, choose the music for your funeral and lie serenely in state.

THE DRAWING ROOM
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE. The brutal and senseless murders of Mme. L’Espanaye and her daughter has appalled and affronted Parisian society. MIA GUBBAY invites you to take up pen and paper and sketch the crime scene to help bring the sinister perpetrators to justice.

THE SEANCE PARLOUR
Ligeia, Morella and Madeleine Usher returned to the mortal world from beyond the veil in chilling stories by Poe. Commune with the denizens of the grave and channel the spirits of discarnate entities at our SEANCE hosted by LONDON DREAMTIME.