What is the best horror anthology TV series?

Anthology horror resets with every episode, and these series range from campfire tales for kids to gory cable shockers and slow-burn streaming dread. A few aired weekly in black and white; others dropped whole seasons overnight.

1. 1
   The Twilight Zone

   Rod Serling's 1959 CBS landmark of eerie twist endings that shaped every anthology after it.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Into the Dark

   Blumhouse's Hulu series that released a feature-length horror film each month around a holiday.
   714pts
3. 3
   Night Gallery

   Rod Serling's 1970s follow-up, built around macabre paintings that each unlock a story.
   584pts
4. 4
   Freddy's Nightmares

   The late-1980s syndicated spin-off hosted by Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger.
   524pts
5. 5
   American Horror Story

   Ryan Murphy's FX franchise that reinvents its cast and setting each season, from a murder house to an asylum.
   524pts
6. 6
   Tales from the Crypt

   HBO's gleefully gory EC Comics adaptation, introduced each week by the cackling Crypt Keeper.
   524pts
7. 7
   Cabinet of Curiosities

   Guillermo del Toro's Netflix collection of lavish horror tales from hand-picked directors.
   454pts
8. 8
   Slasher

   The Canadian series that gives each season a new masked killer and a fresh whodunit.
   454pts
9. 9
   Inside No. 9

   Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's BBC show of self-contained tales set behind a door marked 9.
   454pts
10. 10
    Hammer House of Horror

    The British studio's 1980 ITV series of gothic and folk-horror stories.
    454pts
11. 11
    Tales from the Darkside

    George A. Romero's 1980s syndicated anthology of low-budget, high-creep stories.
    454pts
12. 12
    Are You Afraid of the Dark?

    Nickelodeon's 1990s kids' classic where the Midnight Society tells ghost stories around a campfire.
    454pts
13. 13
    Monsters

    The 1988 syndicated anthology where every episode featured a different practical-effects creature.
    372pts
14. 14
    The Haunting of Hill House

    Mike Flanagan's Netflix ghost story about a family scarred by one terrible house, the first of The Haunting anthology.
    372pts
15. 15
    Channel Zero

    Syfy's slow-burn series adapting creepypasta stories, one unsettling season at a time.
    372pts
16. 16
    Thriller

    Boris Karloff's 1960 NBC anthology, praised by Stephen King as the best horror series ever on TV.
    273pts
17. 17
    Black Mirror

    Charlie Brooker's dark techno-anthology whose episodes turn everyday gadgets into nightmares.
    272pts
18. 18
    The Terror

    AMC's historical horror anthology, opening with a doomed Arctic expedition stalked by something in the ice.
    272pts
19. 19
    Goosebumps

    The 1995 adaptation of R.L. Stine's best-selling books that scared a generation of young viewers.
    0pts
20. 20
    Creepshow

    Shudder's revival of the Romero and King film, mixing comic-book panels with gruesome shorts.
    0pts
21. 21
    The Outer Limits

    The 1963 ABC series of monsters and cosmic dread that opened by taking control of your television.
    0pts
22. 22
    Masters of Horror

    Showtime's 2005 series giving hour-long films to directors such as John Carpenter and Dario Argento.
    0pts

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