4. The Bram Stoker Festival

You most likely won’t meet the literal dead here, but there’s always a little thrill in resurrecting the myth of Dracula, especially in late October. Bram Stoker, Dracula’s author, a Dublin native, and an alumni of nearby Trinity College, didn’t invent the vampire myth, but he did make the vampire an unforgettable part of the Western horror cannon. The three-day festival paying reverence to his story is done though events throughout central Dublin. In Saint Patrick’s Cathedral you can attend a theatrical reading of Dracula, accompanied, oddly enough, by a choral group.