America really have a broad selection of horror to choose from: whether it be vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches and ghosts, they got you covered. They also have just the right amount of horror fear for your choosing, either like a small jump scare here and there or full fledge hide behind the pillow from it all. Here are some of the American horror TV-series to watch this spooky season.
Them
Them is a limited anthology series that explores terror in America. The first season centers around a Black family who move from North Carolina to an all-white Los Angeles neighborhood during the period known as The Great Migration. The family’s idyllic home becomes ground zero where malevolent forces, next door and otherworldly, threaten to taunt, ravage and destroy them.
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Brand New Cherry Flavor
Brand New Cherry Flavor — a limited series starring Rosa Salazar, Catherine Keener, Eric Lange, Jeff Ward and Manny Jacinto. A filmmaker heads to Hollywood in the early ‘90s to make her movie but tumbles down a hallucinatory rabbit hole of sex, magic, revenge – and kittens.
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Midnight Mass
An original series from Mike Flanagan, most known for creating The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor. This series is set on a little island, so sleepy it might be dead. The isolated community on Crockett Island experiences miraculous events – and frightening omens – following the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest.
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Two Sentence Horror Stories
Another case of an internet phenomenom that made it into the small screen is the two sentenced horror stories we can find everywhere, especially on Reddit. ”Two Sentence Horror Stories” is an award-winning, original scripted horror anthology series. Each standalone story taps into the expansive world of the horror genre, pressing universal primal fears filtered through the anxieties of a connected and racially diverse generation.
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Swamp Thing
From the DC Universe, based on characters originally written and drawn by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson came Swamp Thing back in 2019 with a good monster series that unfortunately only got the one season. Swamp Thing follows Abby Arcane as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe. Based on the DC
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What We Do in The Shadows
Based on the New Zealand mockumentary by the same name by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. The series centres around a camera crew following the lives of three vampires, who’ve lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island, trying to fit into the modern society.
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Lovecraft Country
Based on the book by the same name, ,inspired by the universe of Lovecraft. A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father. From Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams,
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American Horror Story
This show has been around for a long time, and has had a deep impact on the other horror shows that have aired for the last decade now. The premise of the show have been different for every season. But the first season is about a family moving to another city to get away from the husband’s infidelity. But they can never truly get away. At least not from the history of the murder house they just moved in to. Now they have reached the tenth season that centres around Aliens.
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Castle Rock
For lovers of Stephen King that needed a clash of characters and places from his universes, look to Castle Rock, the place where stories like “Cujo,” “The Dead Zone,” and “The Body.” They also have the prison from the Shawshank State Prison as well as the characters like Pennywise (the clown from “It”), the name Annie Wilkes (the crazed uber-fan in “Misery”) and more.
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The Walking Dead
With the long running series ending with the 11th season this year, it is perhaps time to take another look at it. And although a show with very uneven seasons, the show truly brought back the zombie craze to the world when it first aired back in 2010.
Ah the long summer days. At the beach, in the woods. Far away or close at home. Summer season is reading season and some horror books is just what we need to contrast the floral pattern people thinking about flowers and picking shells. Give us the blood, the gore and the eerily feeling of cold ghosts not even the sun can shine away.
This is a list of something new, and something classic. One can pick and choose now a days, and even the format. If you rather listen to the audio book version, this is included here as well!
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It amazes me just how many that have watched this movie, but never read the book, or rather, didn’t know it was a book. So in that regard, this will be on every horror summer list until everyone have reached enlightenment. The interesting thing about this book is actually what happened to the writer of it. Benchley felt so responsible giving the shark its bad rep that he has no became one of its protector. He said in an article for the National Geographic published in 2000, Benchley writes “considering the knowledge accumulated about sharks in the last 25 years, I couldn’t possibly write Jaws today … not in good conscience anyway. Back then, it was generally accepted that great whites were anthropophagus (they ate people) by choice. Now we know that almost every attack on a human is an accident: The shark mistakes the human for its normal prey.”
Synopsis: Peter Benchley’s Jaws first appeared in 1974. As well as Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation, the novel has sold over twenty million copies around the world, creating a legend that refuses to die – it’s never safe to go back in the water . . .
It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble – a warning of what was to come – took the form of a young woman’s body, or what was left of it, washed up on the long, white stretch of beach . . .
It is not everything of Gillian Flynn that I like, but I like, I really like. Sharp Objects is such a messed up book, and the description of the more gory stuff is gut wrenching.
Synopsis: Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.
This is on the list because it is of one of the most anticipated series right now, and people better get to reading this before it comes out. Use this summer to it!
Synopsis: Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.
Needed to put in one of these enjoyable YA horror. It is set in the summer months of a small town, and it is a classic kind of bored high school students going to a haunted house on a dare. Plus, it has ghost hunters in it. Love it!
Synopsis: Cas Lowood is no ordinary guy – he hunts dead people.
People like Anna. Anna Dressed in Blood. A beautiful, murderous ghost entangled in curses and rage. Cas knows he must destroy her, but as her tragic past is revealed, he starts to understand why Anna has killed everyone who’s ever dared to enter her spooky home.
This really took off after the movie came out as well and is one of the many examples lately of why you shouldn’t go to Scandinavia for the summer.
Synopsis: In Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle. No longer young men, they have little left in common and tensions rise as they struggle to connect. Frustrated and tired they take a shortcut that turns their hike into a nightmare that could cost them their lives.
Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. A place of dark ritual and home to a bestial presence that is still present in the ancient forest, and now they’re the prey.
As the four friends struggle toward salvation they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees . . .
Did you plan on camping in the wilderness for the summer? Don’t bring this then – or do – if you plan on having no sleep and full on paranoia attack.
Synopsis: Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip–a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite–shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry–Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or one another.
To proper celebrate summer season, we need to have a proper southern gothic on our reading list. And why not start with one of the now classics? A treat for horror fans out there.
Synopsis: After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier – and is now ready to kill again . . . A haunted house story unlike any other, Michael McDowell’s The Elementals (1981) was one of the finest novels to come out of the horror publishing explosion of the 1970s and ’80s. Though best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell is now being rediscovered as one of the best modern horror writers and a master of Southern Gothic literature.
Synopsis: When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they’re going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures . . . two friends suddenly thrust into the middle of a nightmare. Forced to fight for their lives against a sadistic killer with an arsenal of razor sharp blades and a hungry dog by his side. If they are to survive, they must decide: are heroes born, or are they made? Or is something more powerful happening to them? And more importantly, how do you survive when all roads lead to death?
The age old question. Should tourist go places or should they stay at home. Would the world be a richer place without tourists? The horror genre would at least be poorer as this is one of the many examples of horror when tourists steps on something ancient on foreign land they don’t understand.
Synopsis: Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine.Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation-sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site . . . and the terrifying presence that lurks there.
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