Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 | Pleasance Courtyard Comedy horror is a difficult thing to get right. Make it too funny and there's nothing remotely scary about it. Make it too creepy and suddenly everyone has forgotten they're supposed to be watching a comedy. Crybabies somehow manage both. Michael Clarke, James Gault and Ed Jones return to the Fringe with The Scaring, an hour-long horror comedy following former priest Arthur Holland, whose previous career in exorcism ended