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’Tis the season for sipping creepy cocktails with the undead at these Halloween spookeasies slinging BOOzy beverages around town. Can you even say you’re a hard-core Halloween-er if you haven’t downed a Corpse Reviver mixed by a zombie while surrounded by fake cobwebs and blood? Here’s where to get a (scared) stiff drink this month, from a haunted house “shriekeasy” to a year-round horror bar to, perhaps scariest of all, a vampire nightclub.
13th Floor Shriekeasy Bar
What’s better than a haunted house filled with post-apocalyptic mutants, possessed demons, evil clowns, and fairy-tale villains? A haunted house with all that and booze. Head inside the iconic 13th Floor Haunted House, where you can visit the Spot Shot Arcade Secret Bar to rev up your liquid courage, then settle your nerves post-spooking at the dimly lit Shriekeasy Bar. 3400 E. 52nd Ave.; haunted house tickets from $25
Adrift Tiki Bar’s Nightmare in Paradise
Devilish things are afoot at Adrift. Five ghoulish cocktails served in spooky tiki mugs are available all month: You’re sure to feel those ghostly tingles after downing the smoky Death Sentence punch bowl or the super crisp (and super boozy) Poison Apple. Visit on Red Rum Wednesdays to catch a spooky film alongside your discounted drink. 218 S. Broadway
Milepost Zero and Dairy Block
Two downtown food halls, just a two-minute walk away from each other, are celebrating the scary season this year: Dairy Block’s horror-movie-inspired Drink or Treat and Milepost Zero’s spooky Cocktails & Screams. Sip on some of the goriest cocktails around, like the Blood Clot (inspired by Saw) at Dairy Block, or the Night of the Living Red served in a blood bag at Milepost Zero. 1601 19th St. & 1800 Wazee St.
Spirits Halloween Bar
This pop-up inside the Jaguar Room wants to make it clear that it’s not affiliated with the Halloween costume shop. (You know, the Spirit Halloween store that’s taken over every empty Bed Bath & Beyond in the suburbs.) So while you don’t want to show up at 9 p.m. looking for a Trump mask, you are definitely in the right place for flaming cocktails served out of a giant Scream mask mug. Parts of the pop-up are open seven days a week, but witch, please, you’re going Thursday through Saturday nights when it’s in full-on spooktacular mode. 1949 Market St.
The Haunted Mansion
Built in 1889, it’s believed that past residents of the Colmar Mansion in Cheesman Park still wander its hallways. Now a pub and haunted escape room, the venue is leaning into its supernatural history this month with an immersive Halloween pop-up bar. Sip specialty cocktails and watch classic horror films while surrounded—literally, from wall to wall—by eerie decor. 1509 N. Marion St.
Honor Farm
Haunted fun shouldn’t be limited to a single day on the calendar: At Honor Farm, spectral spirits are available year-round, but October is special. All month, enjoy the Coffin Club, a menu of dreadfully named concoctions, including the tequila-and-cinnamon I Suck (Blood) and giardiniera-spiked Slaughtermelon Martini. The downtown watering hole is part of “the unholy trinity of bars” alongside Hell or High Water Tiki (hidden in Honor Farm’s mezzanine) and Edgewater’s Electric Cure (which is marking the holiday by transforming into the Electric Curse and dragging you into the 9 Circles of Hell). 1526 Blake St.
Poka Lola Social Club
The spirits have taken over this typically bright, art deco space. Enter Poka Muah Ha Ha, a month-long pop-up inspired by the season, where the decor might be different, but the cocktails remain killer. Choose from a whopping 14 themed cocktails and shots, like the cream cheese fat-washed Holy Water martini and smoke-filled Speak No Evil. (Don’t be scared: Booze-free options are available, too.) 1850 Wazee St.
Spirits & Spirits
On Saturday, October 26, Four Mile Historic Park invites you to drink with the dead at Spirits & Spirits. Get spooked during a tour of the haunted Four Mile House and a Victorian séance recreation, or learn your own fate with a tarot reading. Scour the Metaphysical Marketplace for protective crystals while quaffing local liquors, then dance the apparitions away during the live performances or drag bingo. As the site of Denver’s oldest standing structure, you know this place has (ghost) stories. 715 S. Forest St.; tickets start at $30
