Dorian's tour is the perfect blend of horrifying history and hilarity. I booked the tour when searching for something touristy to do with friends from further afield. We all had such a brilliant time, and I learnt loads of grisly new stories about my home city. The tour is inclusive, with headphones allowing you to set your own pace and to hear and focus on what the guide is saying (even in the busiest parts of York on a Saturday afternoon). Would highly recommend!

It was a good way to get to know York differently. Dr. Dorian Deathly was a very entertaining, friendly and knowledgable guide with many great, funny historical tales. We bought a tickets online for £12. Our 90 minutes tour started at 6pm. It was a group over 20 people. We really enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend it!

Incredibly interesting, was great to learn about the true grimy and grisly past of York and incredibly inclusive, with wireless headphones it allowed my hard of hearing partner be able to listen in the hustle and bustle of york. The music between locations made it feel like we were on and adventure.

A great walking tour. I really enjoyed this walking tour with Dorian. He's very knowledgeable about York and he told us many stories both funny and grotesque that I guarantee you will not hear on a standard walking tour. Definitely worth doing if you want an entertaining alternative tour of York.

Great tour with Dorian. Professional as always with great sense of humour. Highly recommended. A history lesson on the dark side. Just as good as the ghostly tours which I would also highly recommend

Amazing experience, well paced and always entertaining. Funny and informative and it was brilliant overall. Recommend for anyone in York, for a few days or residents. Takes you to places both in and out of the hustle and bustle, but the headphone experience is clear and keeps the entertainment going even in the busiest portions. All around excellent. A mother, teenage daughter and adult son had a blast and the hour or so flew by!

What a great tour! The headset angle made it simultaneously more casual and more intimate, and it was much easier navigating the busy streets when you don’t have to worry about being able to hear the tour guide! The tour itself was fascinating, with the right balance of humour with the darker aspects. 10/10 would recommend!

Great tour - learned a lot about the gruesome history of York with some comedy thrown in by our amazing guide! If you enjoy history told in an entertaining way I would 100% recommend.

I went on this tour with my friend (both 16) as we’d been on the other ghost tour that you run previously, we had a great time!! The stories were so interesting and covered all sorts of topics like robberies, witchcraft, murders and fraud. The way you delivered the stories was so captivating and was so easy to enjoy. The tour itself was great, using headsets was very useful as usually in the summer holidays, a tour would be very hard to hear… The medieval rendition of pop music in between stories was an awesome addition to the tour. If i could, I would go on this tour again and again and again. Very highly recommend!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Absolutely loved this tour, I've never done one with headphones before and I now think they should always be like that, it makes hearing the guide easy and I was less distracted by things around me. I am obsessed with true crime and this fed my obsession, I am now obsessed with historical Yorkshire True Crime and also medieval remixes of pop songs (IYKYK) Dorian is a legend, we saw him on a ghost tour before and definitely didn't stalk him online forever! Got a discount code so might go again with family.

We had a very enjoyable time the guide who took us around the city was very entertaining and extremely knowledgeable regarding past events on York. The headphones were an added bonus as you could hear everything that was being said and you didn’t miss anything.

Another brilliant tour from the Deathly Dark team. We join them for a ghost tour every time we're in York, so when they announced this new tour we booked right away. York is a very busy place in the day, so the use of the headphones is a great idea. The sound quality was amazing, like listening to a podcast! The music between the stops really made the walks between stops fun. The tour is true crime based, very factual and engaging. The guide has clearly gone above and beyond on the research. Get this booked, you won't be disappointed!

This was a great tour. It involved the use of headphones to clearly hear what the guide said and also this was good as it made the tour very atmospheric. Some great stories and learnt so much more about York. The guide was excellent good and so knowledgeable. Would recommend this tour to anybody visiting York or already live there.

Nothing short of THE BEST tour we've ever done Absolutely brilliant..still talking about the pigeons bum cure!!! Dorian is theatrical informative funny very very knowledgeable and engaging We were so impressed we told Galtres Lodge where we were staying to recommend it Even our little dog was happy Thank you for the memories Dorian

Do you fancy something different to a ghost tour? Do you find the streets of York after dark just too creepy? Are you interested in a different take on York's gruesome past? Then this is the tour for you. Our enigmatic guide met us on a very hot and sunny day and handed out headsets, through which he told us lots of gruesome and grisly tales of murders and evil deeds from the past, whilst guiding us around the bustling streets with ease. We learnt new tales, saw unseen sights and were thoroughly entertained. The tour lasts approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes and involves a fair bit of walking (all flat though York's streets are notoriously bumpy), although with plenty of rest stops. Our horror-loving 13 yo enjoyed it very much, I would say it is suitable for ages 12 upwards. The experience of wearing the headsets really makes it very atmospheric as you feel slightly removed from the tourist bustle of York's streets, and the "bard-core" music played in between tales is most entertaining. Another fantastic experience from the Deathly Dark family, if you enjoy this then give their evening ghost tour a try also-it's the best in York!