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TV series from the 2000s

Horror on television: what each series is, who made it and how scary it gets.

TV series · 2008

Being Human

A vampire, a werewolf and a ghost share a house and try, badly, to pass as normal people.

TV series · 2004

Kingdom Hospital

Stephen King's American reworking of Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, set in a hospital that never feels quite safe.

TV series · 2005

Supernatural

Two brothers drive from town to town hunting supernatural threats, until the job turns into a fight against actual angels and demons.

TV series · 2009

The Vampire Diaries

A teenage girl finds her life bound up with two brothers who are not what they seem, in a supernatural drama built from a book series.

TV series · 2003

The Walking Dead

Zombies are the least of it once the living start making their own rules.

TV series · 2008

True Blood

A vampire tale from Charlaine Harris's novels, blending horror with romance and drama in equal, uneasy measure.

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The After Dark Top 40

Forty horror films counted down like the charts, from silent classics to new favourites, picked by Erin and sent the moment you join.