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TV series: Vampire

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 · 1997

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

An ordinary teenager becomes the one person standing between her town and the vampires and demons that hunt it.

TV series · 2020

Dracula

The BBC's own three-part go at Dracula, with Claes Bang as the Count.

TV series · 2018

Legacies

A teenage tribrid tries to get through school when half her classmates are vampires, werewolves and witches.

TV series · 2014

Penny Dreadful

A horror drama bringing vampires and werewolves together in one gothic mystery, created by John Logan for Showtime and Sky.

TV series · 2014

The Strain

An FX horror drama from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, following a vampire outbreak that tips over into full-blown apocalypse.

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 · 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.