Draft:Edinburgh Horror Festival

The Edinburgh Horror Festival, or EHF, is a yearly Halloween event in Edinburgh, Scotland, for live entertainment. This includes theatre, comedy, magic, spoken word, improv, walking tours, workshops, games and other interactive events.. Co-founder and actor Michael Daviot said that “Under the Horror banner we include the weird, uncanny, bizarre, grotesque – it’s really not about blood’n’guts, but celebrating the supernatural and the strange.”

History
Founded in 2016 by magician Ash Pryce, comedian Alexander Staniforth, writer/actor Oliver Giggins, actor Michael Daviot, and producer Emily Ingram, it first ran across four locations, including three pubs, the Banshee Labyrinth pub, The Tron Pub, and The White Horse, and a bookshop, Otherworld Books.

Subsequent years have also seen events occur at The Tron Pub, CCBlooms, Lauriston Castle, the Writers Museum , a boat , and online during the pandemic. Since then, the Festival has been mostly limited to the Banshee Labyrinth, a move which has not come without criticism, with some noting the venue's appropriate atmosphere but also noise level. However, despite noting its smaller impact than the Edinburgh Fringe, others have also praised the event for having "that low-fi buzz and sense of experimentation which is all too often absent from the August event", calling it "a real fillip for the theatre soul".

Notable Performances
Notable acts include Dacre Stoker, great-great-grand-nephew of the author of Dracula and the author of two prequels and sequels to Dracula, Dracula: The Undead and Dracul.