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TV series: Psychological

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

TV series · 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock's own anthology of dramas, thrillers and mysteries, one twisty little tale after another.

TV series · 2021

American Horror Stories

An anthology from the American Horror Story team, a fresh horror story in nearly every episode.

TV series · 2011

American Horror Story

An anthology series that starts its story fresh with a new setting and cast each season.

TV series · 2013

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.

TV series · 1988

Freddy's Nightmares

A 1988 horror anthology spin-off from A Nightmare on Elm Street, hosted by Freddy Krueger across two stories per episode.

TV series · 2013

Hannibal

An FBI profiler and a psychiatrist build a bond that will turn into something far more dangerous.

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 · 2016

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.

TV series · 2019

Servant

A slow-burn psychological horror series set almost entirely inside one house, and what starts to come apart there.

TV series · 2013

The Following

A crime thriller from Kevin Williamson, with Kevin Bacon leading three seasons of nerve rather than screams.

TV series · 1994

The Kingdom

A Danish hospital drama gone gloriously strange, from the mind of Lars von Trier.

TV series · 1963

The Outer Limits

An anthology of science fiction stories with mystery, horror and an uneasy question at its heart.

TV series · 1959

The Twilight Zone

Rod Serling's anthology drops ordinary people into one strange, unsettling turn each week.

TV series · 1990

Twin Peaks

A surreal mystery series that brings horror into the questions it leaves hanging.

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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.