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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.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is a 1974–75 ABC horror series starring Darren McGavin as reporter Carl Kolchak, spun off from the 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker and its 1973 sequel The Night Strangler; it inspired The X-Files.

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.

Light as a Feather (TV series)

Light as a Feather is an American supernatural teen thriller series on Hulu, based on Zoe Aarsen's Wattpad story, in which girls die as a party game predicted.

List of vampire television series

List of vampire television series: overview of TV shows featuring vampires, from Dark Shadows (1966–71) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, and AMC's Interview with the Vampire, with dates, formats, and franchise history.

Locke & Key (TV series)

Locke & Key is a Netflix fantasy horror drama (2020-2022, 3 seasons, 28 episodes) adapted from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's IDW comic, following the Locke siblings and magical keys at Keyhouse after a decade of failed adaptations.

Lockwood & Co. (TV series)

Lockwood & Co. is a 2023 British Netflix supernatural series, eight episodes created by Joe Cornish from Jonathan Stroud's books, starring Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman, and Ali Hadji-Heshmati as teen ghost hunters; canceled after one season in May 2023.

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.

Los Espookys

Los Espookys: HBO absurdist Spanish-language comedy (2019–2022) created by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega, and Fred Armisen, about friends staging fake supernatural events in an unnamed Latin American country; canceled after two seasons.

Lovecraft Country (TV series)

Lovecraft Country: HBO drama series (2020), based on Matt Ruff's 2016 novel, created by Misha Green with Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams; 10 episodes following Atticus Freeman through 1950s Jim Crow America; 18 Emmy nominations.

Luna Nera

Luna Nera (Black Moon) is an Italian Netflix historical fantasy series, 31 January 2020, six episodes, created by Manieri, Paolucci, and Triana from Triana's Le città perdute; a 17th-century midwife accused of witchcraft, hunted by the Benandanti; canceled after one season.

Marianne (2019 TV series)

Marianne is a 2019 French Netflix supernatural horror series created by Samuel Bodin with Quoc Dang Tran, starring Victoire Du Bois as novelist Emma Larsimon. Eight episodes, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, canceled after one season.

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.

Mayfair Witches

Mayfair Witches (Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches) is AMC's 2023 supernatural drama adapted from the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, starring Alexandra Daddario as neurosurgeon Rowan in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe.

Meg Masters

Meg Masters is a Supernatural character name covering both a possessed Andover, Massachusetts college student (Nicki Aycox) and the unnamed black-eyed demon (Rachel Miner) who took her name, served Azazel, allied with the Winchesters, and died fighting Crowley in "Goodbye Stranger."

Midnight Mass (miniseries)

Midnight Mass is Mike Flanagan's 2021 seven-episode Netflix horror limited series set on Crockett Island, where Father Paul's apparent miracles conceal a vampire; stars Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Hamish Linklater; 87% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Midnight, Texas

Midnight, Texas: Charlaine Harris paranormal mystery trilogy (Midnight Crossroad, Day Shift, Night Shift, Ace, 2014-2016) about a supernatural haven town, adapted as NBC's two-season 2017-2018 drama starring François Arnaud.

Missing: The Other Side

Missing: The Other Side (미씽: 그들이 있었다) is a South Korean OCN/tvN mystery-fantasy drama (2020–2023, 26 episodes) about a conman who finds a village of souls of missing dead people, starring Go Soo and Heo Joon-ho.

My Babysitter's a Vampire (TV series)

My Babysitter's a Vampire (MBAV) is a Canadian live-action supernatural comedy series (2011–2012) by Fresh TV, based on the 2010 Teletoon TV film, airing on Teletoon and Disney Channel; 2 seasons, 26 episodes, starring Matthew Knight, Vanessa Morgan, and Atticus Mitchell.

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.

NOS4A2 (TV series)

NOS4A2 (AMC, 2019) is a supernatural horror series adapting Joe Hill's novel, starring Zachary Quinto as soul-drinking Charlie Manx and Ashleigh Cummings as Vic McQueen; created by Jami O'Brien, it ran two seasons.

October Faction (TV series)

October Faction is a 2020 Netflix supernatural drama, 10 episodes, created by Damian Kindler from the Steve Niles and Damien Worm IDW comic, starring Tamara Taylor and J.C. MacKenzie as monster-hunting parents; canceled March 2020 after one season.

Outcast (TV series)

Outcast (2016–2017) is a Cinemax supernatural horror drama based on Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta's Skybound comic, starring Patrick Fugit as possession-plagued Kyle Barnes; two 10-episode seasons.

Penny Dreadful (TV series)

Penny Dreadful (TV series): British-American horror drama created by John Logan for Showtime and Sky, 2014–2016, three seasons set in 1891 Victorian London, filmed in Dublin, starring Eva Green as Vanessa Ives.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is a 2020 Showtime supernatural crime drama created by John Logan, set in 1938 Los Angeles with an all-new cast led by Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, and Nathan Lane; canceled after one ten-episode season.

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.

Ravenswood (TV series)

Ravenswood is an ABC Family supernatural teen drama (2013–2014), a spin-off of Pretty Little Liars created by I. Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, and Joseph Dougherty, starring Tyler Blackburn as Caleb Rivers in a cursed town near Rosewood, Pennsylvania.

Reaper (TV series)

Reaper is an American supernatural comedy-drama on The CW (2007-2009, 31 episodes), created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas, in which slacker Sam Oliver, whose parents sold his soul, works as the Devil's bounty hunter; starring Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, and Ray Wise.

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.