The Most Popular Horror Shows on TV Right Now

“First Kill” is a teen drama (now canceled) based on a short story of the same name that follows two girls that fall in love. The problem is that one is a hungry vampire and the other one is an ambitious vampire hunter.

This upcoming comedy horror is based on the Wednesday Addams character in the Addams Family cartoons. The show follows Wednesday as she comes of age as a high school student while she tries to master her psychic powers.

“Archive 81” is a supernatural horror show based on a podcast of the same name. The Netflix series, which lasted for only one season, centers on an archivist who takes a job restoring old tapes and gets pulled into an investigation involving a demonic cult.

The series of tales of the macabre and the unexplained, which debuted in 1959, is the gold standard for thought-provoking and inventive television and enjoys a loyal following to this day. The Golden Globe- and Emmy-award winning series was hosted by master storyteller Rod Serling.

“The Last of Us” is an upcoming post-apocalyptic show based on a video game of the same name. It ranks No. 26 in popularity even though it has yet to screen based on audience interest as indicated by search traffic. The show follows two people who go on a trek across the country after a devastating pandemic, fighting killers and other monsters in order to survive.

“Grimm” centers on a homicide detective in Portland who finds out he is a descendant from hunters known as the Grimms, who fight supernatural forces and creatures.

“Helluva Boss” is an adult animated series that centers on an assassination company from Hell that targets the human world with the help of an ancient book of spells.

A spinoff of “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Originals” concerns a thousand-year-old family of vampires who return to New Orleans, which they helped build, to reclaim it.

Disney’s animated series “Gravity Falls” is about twins Dipper and Mabel Pines, along with their great uncle “Grunkle” Stan, as they experience the extraordinary in the enigmatic titular town.

Set before the events that take place in the 1991 movie “Silence of the Lambs,” “Hannibal” is about a young Hannibal Lecter and his relationship with an equally young FBI criminal profiler.

“Legacies” is a spinoff of “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Originals” in which the daughter of a vampire and a werewolf hybrid and several others are coming of age as witches and other creatures, learning how to fight their evil impulses.

“In the Dark” follows a blind young woman who is desperately trying to find out what happened to her best friend, whom she believes has been murdered.

“Fear the Walking Dead” is the first spinoff to “The Walking Dead” TV show. The show starts as a prequel, showing how the apocalypse began, but eventually catches up with the timeline of the original series and some characters even cross over.

“Primal” is an adult animated adventure series set in a prehistoric world where dinosaurs and humans coexist.

Another spinoff of the hit zombie-themed show, this is the fourth series in the “Walking Dead” franchise. Episodes are independent of each other, following individual characters – both new and already established in the original series.

This animated series features short stories in a variety of genres such as science fiction, horror, and comedy. Among the creators is David Fincher, whose credits include the 1997 movie thriller “Se7en.”

The show tells the story of four members of a high school girls soccer team who survive a plane crash in the wilderness of Canada, showing how they survived – and how the experience affects their current lives.

This eight-season series stars Nina Dobrev as a high school teen new to the town of Mystic Falls who becomes involved in a love triangle with two brothers who are vampires. Three of the show’s eight seasons, which originally aired on The CW Network, have a perfect Freshness score from Rotten Tomatoes critics.

The sci-fi horror show “From” follows several residents of a small town that somehow traps everyone who enters, preventing them from leaving as they try to survive and find a way out.

In this supernatural drama, a forensic psychologist who doesn’t believe in the supernatural partners up with a Catholic seminarian and a technology contractor as they investigate purported supernatural events, including people possessed by demons.

This is a Japanese fantasy animated series, adapted from the manga of the same name. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the show features a young soldier and his friends who have vowed to rid the world of the man-eating Titans, hoping to save humanity.

“Resident Evil” is a Netflix original horror series partially based on a video game of the same name. The plot is spread out over two years – 2022 and 2036. A teenager is fighting to survive after a virus outbreak has all but wiped out human civilization.

Each season of this anthology horror show is like a miniseries. The similarly structured stories revolve around such subjects as living in a house with a murderous past, trying to survive an insane asylum, and joining in a witch coven. Some of the performers have appeared in numerous seasons, playing different roles.

The long-running CW series is about two brothers whose mother is killed by malevolent forces and who are raised by their father to fight demons, monsters, and other supernatural beings. Nine of the show’s 15 seasons hold a perfect score from Rotten Tomatoes critics.

“What We Do in the Shadows,” which originated on FX, is a comedy-horror series about the daily lives of three vampires who’ve lived together for more than 100 years on Staten Island.

“American Horror Stories” is a spinoff of the hugely popular anthology series “American Horror Story.” Every episode is a self-contained narrative, as opposed to the season-long arcs of the original show.

AMC’s smash zombie series “The Walking Dead” is based on a comic book series of the same name written by Rob Kirkman at Image Comics. Frank Darabont, writer/director of “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile,” was the original showrunner for the series.

The fantasy horror drama, based on the comic series of the same name, returned this month for a third and final season. In it, the Locke family explores its new ability to make keys themselves as they defend themselves against their biggest threat yet.

The disappearance of a boy in a small Indiana town leads to paranormal occurrences. The show was inspired by the ’80s-era small town adventure and horror works of Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, and others. According to a 2016 report from Netflix, viewers were generally hooked on the series after watching the second episode.

“The Sandman” is a fantasy drama based on Neil Gaiman’s iconic 75-part DC Comics series. The show tells the story of Dream, a mortal wizard and the master of dreams, who escapes imprisonment after being held captive for 106 years. He is now on a mission to restore the kingdom of Dreaming.