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American Horror Stories
American Horror Stories is a 2021 FX on Hulu horror anthology spin-off of American Horror Story by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, with a different self-contained horror story each episode across three seasons (24 episodes, 2021–2024).
American Horror Story
American Horror Story (AHS) is FX's horror anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk in 2011, with 13 self-contained installments from Murder House to AHS: 13, over 100 Emmy nominations, and the spin-off American Horror Stories.
American Horror Story: Asylum
American Horror Story: Asylum, the 13-episode second season of FX's anthology (2012), set in 1964 at the fictional Briarcliff Manor asylum, starring Jessica Lange as Sister Jude; 84% on Rotten Tomatoes and two Emmy wins.
American Horror Story: Coven
American Horror Story: Coven is the third season of the FX anthology (2013, 13 episodes), set in post-Katrina New Orleans at Miss Robichaux's Academy, pitting Salem-descended witches led by Fiona Goode against Marie Laveau's voodooists; 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
American Horror Story: Delicate
American Horror Story: Delicate is the 12th season of the FX anthology, the first adapted from a book, Danielle Valentine's Delicate Condition. It stars Emma Roberts and Kim Kardashian, premiered September 20, 2023, and ran 9 episodes in two parts.
American Horror Story: Murder House
American Horror Story: Murder House is the 2011 first season of the FX anthology series by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, following the Harmon family in a haunted Los Angeles house, with Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, and Jessica Lange.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a Nickelodeon/YTV children's horror anthology created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel, framed by the Midnight Society campfire storytellers; ran 1990s, rebooted 2019–2022.
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction is a Fox paranormal anthology (1997–2002, created by Lynn Lehmann) presenting five stories per episode; viewers guess which are true. James Brolin, then Jonathan Frakes, hosted; a German revival followed.
Calls
Calls (2021) is an Apple TV+ anthology series directed by Fede Álvarez, adapted from Timothée Hochet's French Canal+ series; nine 13–21-minute episodes told through phone calls with abstract visuals, 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Castle Rock (TV series)
Castle Rock (TV series), Hulu psychological-horror anthology (2018-2019) created by Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason with J.J. Abrams and Stephen King, set in King's fictional Maine town; two seasons, 20 episodes, canceled 2020.
Channel Zero (TV series)
Channel Zero is a Syfy horror anthology series (2016–2018) created by Nick Antosca, adapting creepypasta stories into four six-episode seasons: Candle Cove, No-End House, Butcher's Block, and The Dream Door.
Chucky (TV series)
Chucky is the Don Mancini-created SYFY and USA horror series (2021-2024) continuing the Child's Play films; three seasons, Brad Dourif's voiced animatronic doll, Jake Wheeler, White House third season, later canceled.
Creepshow (TV series)
Creepshow is an American horror anthology TV series based on the 1982 Stephen King and George A. Romero film. Showrun by Greg Nicotero, it premiered on Shudder in 2019 and ran for four seasons.
Freddy's Nightmares
Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series is an American horror anthology show syndicated 1988-1990, two seasons, 44 episodes, hosted by Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, set in Springwood, with a Tobe Hooper-directed prequel pilot.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is a 2022 Netflix horror anthology miniseries of eight self-contained episodes curated and hosted by del Toro, released October 25-28, 2022, with directors including Jennifer Kent, Panos Cosmatos, and Catherine Hardwicke.
Harper's Island
Harper's Island (Harper's Island) is a 2009 CBS 13-episode slasher whodunit created by Ari Schlossberg, set at a wedding on a Seattle-area island where one character dies each episode until the killer is revealed; moved to Saturdays, it ran its full course July 11, 2009.
Hysteria!
Hysteria! is a 2024 Peacock supernatural horror series, created by Matthew Scott Kane, about a teen metal band posing as Satanists during the 1980s Satanic Panic in Happy Hollow, Michigan; eight episodes aired October 18, 2024, and it was cancelled in February 2025.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (TV series)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021 TV series), Amazon Prime Video adaptation by Sara Goodman of Lois Duncan's 1973 novel and the 1997 film; eight episodes, October-November 2021, canceled after one season.
Into the Dark (TV series)
Into the Dark: Hulu and Blumhouse Television monthly horror anthology (2018-2021), 24 feature-length holiday-themed installments, premiered with The Body, ended with Blood Moon, 70% Rotten Tomatoes.
Just Beyond
Just Beyond is an 8-episode supernatural horror-comedy anthology on Disney+, created by Seth Grahame-Smith from R.L. Stine's BOOM! Studios graphic novels, premiering October 13, 2021 with standalone teen tales of witches, aliens, and ghosts.
Legion (TV series)
Legion is an American television series created by Noah Hawley for FX, based on Marvel's Legion character, running three seasons from 2017 to 2019 with Dan Stevens.
Lore (TV series)
Lore (TV series): American horror anthology on Prime Video, 2017–2018, adapted from Aaron Mahnke's Lore podcast; two seasons, 12 episodes, blending reenactments, animation, and narration about the real history behind folklore.
Masters of Horror
Masters of Horror: Showtime horror anthology series (2005-2007) created by Mick Garris; two seasons, 26 one-hour standalone films by Argento, Carpenter, Landis, Hooper, Miike and other genre directors; followed by Fear Itself on NBC.
Night Gallery
Night Gallery (Rod Serling's Night Gallery) is NBC's horror-fantasy anthology series (1970–1973), created and hosted by Rod Serling after The Twilight Zone, with a 1969 pilot featuring Steven Spielberg's directorial debut and 98 story segments across three seasons.
Psychoville
Psychoville is a BBC Two dark comedy mystery (2009–2011) created by and starring Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, whose characters receive letters reading "I know what you did"; two series plus a 2010 Halloween special.
Red Rose (TV series)
Red Rose is an eight-part British teen horror series created by the Clarkson Twins for BBC Three and Netflix, set in Bolton. It premiered 15 August 2022, reached Netflix 15 February 2023, and follows teens menaced by a sinister phone app.
Scream (TV series)
Scream: The TV Series is an American horror television series, adapted from the film franchise, that followed teenagers targeted by a masked killer from 2015 to 2019.
Scream Queens (2015 TV series)
Scream Queens (2015 TV series), Fox horror-comedy anthology by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan; two seasons, 23 episodes (2015-2016), sorority slasher with Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis, canceled 2017, later a cult favorite.
Servant (TV series)
Servant is an Apple TV+ psychological horror series created by Tony Basgallop and executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, running 40 episodes over four seasons (2019-2023) about the Turners, a Philadelphia couple whose nanny Leanne cares for a reborn doll after their baby Jericho's death.
Shining Vale
Shining Vale is a Starz satirical horror-comedy series by Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan, starring Courteney Cox as haunted novelist Pat Phelps; two seasons, 2022-2023, canceled December 2023.