MUMBAI: English entertainment channel AXN will treat its viewers with supernatural surprises, gruesome imagery, gothic legend, psychological creepiness, and classic jump-out-of-your-seat moments this Halloween.

The AXN Midnight Screamathon will air from 12 am on 31 October and 1 November, 2015.

AXN will premier episodes of Penny Dreadful Season 2 all night long. In this horror-thriller by John Logan, some of literature's most terrifying characters, like Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature, Dorian Gray, along with some of the iconic figures from the novel Dracula lurk in the darkest corners of Victorian London are joined by Vanessa Ives (Bond-girl Eva Green), Timothy Dalton (ex-Bond) and Josh Hartnett (30 Days of Night) who form unlikely alliances to hunt down greater evil.

The channel will celebrate their Midnight Screamathon with its viewers by throwing midnight parties for the first time across Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.