American Horror Story
An anthology series that starts its story fresh with a new setting and cast each season.
The directory
TV series from the 2010s
Horror on television: what each series is, who made it and how scary it gets.
Bates Motel
A psychological horror drama imagining the earlier lives of the Bates family, drawn from Robert Bloch's Psycho, across five seasons on A&E.
Castle Rock
An uneasy American series set in Stephen King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine.
Fear the Walking Dead
The Walking Dead's other family, watching civilisation come apart from somewhere else entirely.
Grimm
A Portland detective discovers he is a Grimm and must keep the peace between people and mythological creatures.
Hannibal
An FBI profiler and a psychiatrist build a bond that will turn into something far more dangerous.
Helix
A CDC team investigates a disease outbreak at an isolated Arctic research station, with no easy way out once they're inside.
Hemlock Grove
A horror series based on Brian McGreevy’s novel, with werewolves, thriller tension and science fiction in the mix.
iZombie
A zombie medical examiner solves murders by taking on the memories and personalities of the dead.
Kingdom
A zombie plague breaks out inside an old Korean royal court already gripped by a fight for power.
Legacies
A teenage tribrid tries to get through school when half her classmates are vampires, werewolves and witches.
My Babysitter's a Vampire
A Canadian comedy horror series about a boy whose babysitter turns out to be a vampire.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew brings the classic teen sleuth back for a mystery series with a proper supernatural streak.
Outcast
A supernatural horror series about a man blamed for what happened to his wife and daughter, and a town too afraid to say why.
Penny Dreadful
A horror drama bringing vampires and werewolves together in one gothic mystery, created by John Logan for Showtime and Sky.
Preacher
A preacher with a temper and a past finds faith is the least strange thing happening to him.
Ravenswood
Ravenswood is a supernatural mystery and the first spin-off from Pretty Little Liars.
Salem
A witch’s hold over the Salem trials is threatened when a former lover returns in this supernatural horror series.
Scream Queens
A sorority is stalked by someone in a Red Devil mask at a fictional university, played as much for laughs as for scares.
Servant
A slow-burn psychological horror series set almost entirely inside one house, and what starts to come apart there.
Stranger Things
A missing boy, the friends who won't let it drop, and a small town hiding something underneath it.
Swamp Thing
A doctor comes home to a Louisiana swamp and finds something that used to be a man waiting in the water.
The Following
A crime thriller from Kevin Williamson, with Kevin Bacon leading three seasons of nerve rather than screams.
The Order
Werewolves get the serious treatment in this Netflix horror drama.
The River
A 2012 ABC series shot entirely as recovered footage, blending supernatural scares with proper action horror across one eight-episode run.
The Strain
An FX horror drama from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, following a vampire outbreak that tips over into full-blown apocalypse.
Van Helsing
In a post-apocalyptic world already overrun by vampires, one woman stands at the centre of it.
Z Nation
Z Nation is a zombie apocalypse series that mixes horror, action and comedy.