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Lovecraft Country (TV Series) (2020): Feat. Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jonathan Majors; Examining racism in America's past through an unexpected genre, this HBO horror series follows a young black man across a segregated 1950s United…
Outsider, The (TV Mini-series) (2020): Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Bill Camp, Jeremy Bobb…; Slow burning crime TV series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, with Ben Mendelsohn playing a troubled detective in the Cherokee City…
Haunting of Hill House, The (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Mike Flanagan
Feat. Anthony Ruivivar, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser…; Loosely based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Shirley Jackson, this modern serialized version flashes between past and present as a fractured…
Wellington Paranormal (TV Series) (2018): Dir. Jemaine Clement, Jackie Van Beek
Feat. Karen O’Leary, Mike Minogue, Maaka Pohatu; An inspired spin–off TV series from WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS that expands the role of lovably clueless police officers O'Leary and Minogue…
Preacher (TV Series) (2016): Feat. Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joe Gilgun…; Much acclaimed adaptation of the DC Comics series with Dominic Cooper as a small town preacher possessed by a supernatural force.
Enfield Haunting, The (2015): Dir. Kristoffer Nyholm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Matthew MacFadyen…; Chilly British horror mini–series from the director of the Danish series THE KILLING, based on Guy Lyon Playfair’s book 'This House Is…
Midwinter of the Spirit (TV Mini-series) (2015): Feat. Nicholas Pinnock, Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie; TV miniseries following a female vicar who works as an exorcist. Cheerfully creepy Middle–England gothic from the pen of supernatural mystery…
Secret of Crickley Hall, The (TV Mini-series) (2012): Dir. Joe Ahearne
Feat. Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall…; Atmospheric 3–part BBC adaptation of the novel by prolific British horror writer James Herbert that connects a supernatural mystery between two…
Fades, The (TV Series) (2011): Feat. Iain de Caestecker, Joe Dempsie, Natalie Dormer…; Adventurous BBC supernatural thriller concerns the apocalyptic visions of an English teenager, who comes to learn that the dead spirits only he can…
Marchlands (TV Series) (2011): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Jodie Whittaker, Denis Lawson, Alex Kingston…; Time–switching supernatural drama where three separate families who have lived in the same Yorkshire house in 1968, 1987 and the present day,…
Haven (TV Series) (2010): Feat. Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Eric Balfour; An FBI agent finds herself inextricably linked to the paranormal activity in the fictional north eastern town of Haven, Maine, in this eccentric…
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet (TV Series) (2010): Comedian Leigh "That Guy" Hart fronts this irreverent, ham–fisted send–up of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, visiting various corners…
Being Human (TV Series) (2008): Feat. Russell Tovey, Lenora Crichlow, Aidan Turner; Supernatural sitcom has three British twenty–somethings struggling with their respective alter–egos as a vampire, ghost and werewolf.
Rabbit Fall (TV Series) (2007): Feat. Andrea Menard, Kevin Jubinville, Peter Kelly Gaudreault; Unusual curio traces life in the small Canadian town of Rabbit Fall with new cop Menard having more than just petty crime to contend with as she…
Death Note (TV Series) (Deathnote) (2006): Anime serial of the cultish good vs. evil parable follows on from the manga and live–action versions in retelling the battle between a cocky…
Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Camryn Manheim; Further primetime paranormal activity, with a prissy Jennifer Love Hewitt as a small town newlywed overcoming her initial skepticism at being able to…
Medium (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, Jake Weber; Moderately–spooky paranormal soap–opera with Patricia Arquette playing a psychic attached to the DA's office in Phoenix, Arizona, who…
Supernatural (TV Series) (2005): Feat. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles; Two brothers scour the countryside for urban myths and legends, stumbling upon various paranorma, horror movie moments and other unexplained events…
Hex (TV Series) (2004): Feat. Jemima Rooper, Christina Cole, Michael Fassbender; Bewitching, BUFFY–comparable series in which a feisty English schoolgirl is bestowed with supernatural powers amidst a looming demonic threat.…
Kingdom Hospital (TV Mini-series) (2004): Dir. Craig R Baxley
Feat. Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Davison, Diane Ladd…; Horror–writer Stephen King expands his King–dom with a solid adaptation of dir. Lars von Trier's celebrated Danish TV series "The…
Tru Calling (TV Series) (2003-2005): Feat. Eliza Dushku; Paranormal TV drama with Dushku playing a morgue intern who discovers she can hear the voices of the recently deceased and reverse their fates.…
Dead Zone, The (TV Series) (2002-2006): Dir. Robert Lieberman
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, David Ogden Stiers, Nicole De Boer; Surprisingly effective spinoff from the 1983 David Cronenberg–Stephen King film, with Hall playing a coma victim who upon awakening six years…
Mataku (TV Series) (2002-2005): Dir. Michael Bennett, Peter Berger
Feat. Temuera Morrison; A well–mounted anthology of contemporary one–off dramas, adapted from the unique and mystical world of Maori supernatural legends. The…
Charmed (TV Series) (1998-2005): Feat. Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs; A career–reviving hit for Doherty and Milano, as two of a trio of sisters who discover they have the supernatural powers of witches. This…
Jonathan Creek (TV Series) (1997): Feat. Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin; Odd coupling Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin play nerdy magician and blunt–edged journalist respectively in this British series of…
Sleepwalker Project, The (TV Series) (Sleepwalkers) (1997): Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts; With a premise that's a cut above the usual sci–fi series imagination, this has a team of researchers at the Morpheus Institute use special…
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe (TV Series) (1994): Follow–up to the popular MYSTERIOUS WORLD series with Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigating more strange phenomena around the…
Hitchhiker, The (TV Series) (1983): Feat. Page Fletcher, Gary Busey, Peter Coyote…; An early HBO series of mystery–thriller stories, related only by the character of The Hitchhiker (Page Fletcher), who introduces and closes…
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (TV Series) (1980): Sci–fi author Arthur C Clarke investigates strange phenomena around the planet in this intriguing television series. Travelling the world from…
Children of the Stones (TV Mini-Series) (1977): Dir. Peter Graham Scott
Feat. Gareth Thomas, Iain Cuthbertson; A spooky classic of British television, in which a scientist and his son move to the village of Milbury, only to be sucked into a quasi–pagan…
Signalman, The (1976): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Denholm Elliott; Smallscale but nicely crafted adaptation of Charles Dickens' ghost story 'The Signalman'. Concerning the spectral experiences of a signalman…
A Warning to the Curious (1972): Dir. Lawrence Gordon Clark
Feat. Peter Vaughan; A wonderful ghost story in miniature from the heyday of adventurous BBC productions, that adapts a superior M R James story with perfect economy and…
Ghost Story (TV Series) (Circle of Fear) (1972-1973): Feat. Sheila Larken , Meg Foster, Don Barry…; Horror anthology TV series presented by Sebastian Cabot, who also plays the owner of a mysterious hotel beset by creepy occurrences. Produced by…
Stone Tape, The (1972): Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Jane Asher, Michael Bryant; Interesting TV ‘one–off’ sees a boisterous electronic research–team set up in a run–down country estate, then become…
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare; Fondly remembered sitcom based on the R. A. Dick novel (itself made into a 1947 film) about a young widow and family who befriend a ghost haunting…

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