The Edgar Allan Poe Immersive Cocktail Experience Returns To London For One Night Only In April — Four Macabre Tales And Four Expertly-Mixed Elixirs

What is the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy experience?

Expertly-crafted cocktails, classic literature and shadowy splendour—Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy London is a haunting celebration of Gothic prose and mixology. Four of Poe’s most celebrated works—The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Raven and The Masque Of Red Death—jump off the page and come to life on stage through dramatic live narration. As attendees get whisked away to the worlds conjured by the readers on stage, story-inspired cocktails like the Pale Blue Eye bring Poe’s twisted realms straight to your glass.

Why does Edgar Allan Poe belong in the shadows of a speakeasy?

Poe is to literature what van Gogh is to art—a tormented genius crafting beauty from inner torment. An orphan by age three, Poe reflected his personal life in much of his writing — The Fall of the House of Usher and The Black Cat grapple with themes of isolation, betrayal and loss. Motifs like these crave a dramatic spoken-word delivery. Against low lighting and Gothic decor, these lines hit harder than ever—especially when the delicious cocktails take hold.