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25 Spooky TV Shows to Binge This Fall 📺🎃

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Andrea Reiher

From witches and vampires to ghosts, monsters and things that go bump in the night, these are 25 of my favorite spooky TV shows to binge during fall and Halloween season. Whether you want nostalgic supernatural fun, genuinely creepy horror or a serie...

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Horror

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Family Friendly

Horror

Every season brings a new nightmare, from haunted houses and witches to freak shows, hotels and serial killers. I especially love that you can pick whichever season fits your Halloween mood without committing to the entire series.

American Horror Story

A zombie apocalypse turns out to be only the beginning as survivors discover that other people can be far more dangerous than the undead. With more than a decade of episodes, this one can keep your spooky binge going well past Halloween.

The Walking Dead

This modern prequel to Psycho explores the disturbing relationship between Norman Bates and his mother before he becomes the man we know from Hitchcock's movie. Vera Farmiga alone makes it worth watching.

Bates Motel

Rod Serling's groundbreaking anthology is filled with strange worlds, unsettling twists and stories that can still get under your skin decades later.

The Twilight Zone

Five siblings are forced to confront the terrifying events they experienced growing up in a haunted mansion. It's genuinely frightening, but the family story underneath the horror is what makes this one stick with me.

The Haunting of Hill House

Vampires have "come out of the coffin" and begun living openly among humans in this sexy, bloody Southern Gothic series. Bon Temps is absolutely bonkers, which is half the fun.

True Blood

The Crypt Keeper introduces a collection of gruesome, funny and frequently twisted horror stories. It's wonderfully over-the-top and exactly the sort of thing I want playing during October.

Tales from the Crypt

Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and other figures from Gothic literature collide in Victorian London. Gorgeous, dark and genuinely creepy, this is a fantastic choice when you want your horror with a little literary pedigree.

Penny Dreadful

Rod Serling returned to anthology television with macabre stories about ghosts, monsters and the supernatural. If you've watched every Twilight Zone episode, this is the perfect next stop, and B&N carries a complete-series set.

Night Gallery: The Complete Series [DVD]

FBI profiler Will Graham develops an increasingly dangerous relationship with psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. It's gruesome, gorgeous and deeply unsettling, sometimes all in the same scene.

Hannibal

The investigation into Laura Palmer's murder reveals that the seemingly idyllic town of Twin Peaks is hiding some profoundly strange secrets. It's eerie, surreal and unlike almost anything else on television.

Twin Peaks

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Buffy Summers has to survive high school while also saving the world from vampires, demons and whatever else crawls out of Sunnydale's Hellmouth. Funny, scary and surprisingly emotional, this is one of my all-time favorite supernatural shows.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series

Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester spend 15 seasons hunting ghosts, demons, monsters and just about every other supernatural creature imaginable. It's basically an entire spooky-season watchlist wrapped into one series, and the complete Blu-ray collect...

Supernatural

FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigate everything from aliens and government conspiracies to some truly terrifying monsters. The mythology is great, but some of my favorite episodes are the wonderfully creepy standalone cases.

The X-Files

Three sisters discover they're powerful witches destined to protect innocent people from supernatural evil. The Halliwell sisters, the Book of Shadows and that gorgeous San Francisco house make this peak cozy-spooky '90s television.

Charmed

Missing children, secret government experiments, supernatural monsters and a group of kids on bikes make this an irresistible blend of horror, sci-fi and '80s nostalgia.

Stranger Things

A group of centuries-old vampires shares a house on Staten Island and proves that immortality doesn't make you any better at dealing with roommates. This is my pick when I want Halloween monsters without the nightmares.

What We Do in the Shadows

Vampires, witches, werewolves, romance and an increasingly complicated supernatural mythology make Mystic Falls a very dangerous place to live. With eight seasons to binge, this is a great pick when you want something spooky and addictive without bei...

The Vampire Diaries

Vampires, ghosts, witches, werewolves and Gothic family secrets invaded daytime television with this wonderfully strange soap opera. Barnabas Collins alone earns it a place on any spooky TV list.

Dark Shadows

Family Friendly

Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and the rest of the gloriously macabre Addams clan are perfect company during spooky season. It's more funny than frightening, but the Halloween vibes are impeccable.

The Addams Family

A family of lovable monsters tries to live an ordinary suburban life with predictably ridiculous results. This is comfort-food Halloween television and a great choice when you want nostalgia instead of scares.

The Munsters

Wednesday Addams heads to Nevermore Academy and finds herself investigating a string of gruesome murders. Jenna Ortega's wonderfully deadpan Wednesday plus the Gothic school setting make this practically tailor-made for fall.

Wednesday

A Portland detective discovers he's descended from a line of hunters who can see the fairy-tale creatures secretly living among humans. The procedural format makes this an especially easy show to binge.

Grimm

The Midnight Society gathers around a campfire to tell scary stories, some of which were way creepier than a kids' show had any business being. This is pure '90s Halloween nostalgia.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

R.L. Stine's stories came to life with haunted masks, evil ventriloquist dummies and plenty of other childhood nightmare fuel. If you grew up in the '90s, this one is an instant nostalgia hit.

Goosebumps