Goosebumps

This is a horror anthology built entirely from R. L. Stine's stories, so it doesn't follow one set of characters through a season so much as hand a new group of preteens and young teenagers something otherworldly to deal with every episode. The supernatural and occult ideas from the books carry straight across, and most episodes are direct adaptations rather than loose spin-offs.

My impression is that this sits closer to the check-under-the-bed end of the scale than anything that will properly rattle you, given it was made for a young audience, though that's a general read rather than a promise about every one of the 74 episodes. It feels suited to an early evening rather than the middle of the night, or to anyone who wants the shape of a spooky story without much of an aftertaste.

What I like is the anthology structure itself. Nothing carries over, nothing demands loyalty, just one strange situation after another across four seasons, which makes it easy company on a night when you can't settle on anything longer or scarier.