The Crypt Charts
The Top 31 Horror Series of All Time
The thirty-one greatest horror series ever made, ranked by the Crypt Score.
Ranked by Crypt Score · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
Eligibility: a title needs at least 2 rating sources and 1,000+ votes to chart — no thin-data entries.
The Twilight ZoneSeries
TV-PG1959 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 5 seasons · Rod Serling
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
True DetectiveSeries
TV-MA2014 · Drama, Mystery · 4 seasons · Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob BriggsSeries
NR2019 · Comedy, Talk · 7 seasons
The World’s Foremost Drive-in Movie Critic – actually he’s pretty much the world’s only Drive-in Critic – Joe Bob Briggs brings his iconic swagger to this firebrand of horror and drive-in cinema offering honest appreciation, hilarious insight, inside stories and of course, the Drive-in totals.
Black MirrorSeries
TV-MA2011 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 7 seasons
Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.
Twin PeaksSeries
TV-MA1990 · Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Kyle MacLachlan
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Stranger ThingsSeries
TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
DexterSeries
TV-MA2006 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 8 seasons · Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Geoff Pierson, David Zayas
Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.
MINDHUNTERSeries
TV-MA2017 · Drama, Crime · 2 seasons · Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Stacey Roca
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
The X-FilesSeries
TV-141993 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime · 11 seasons · David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
The BoysSeries
TV-MA2019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 5 seasons · Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
The Haunting of Hill HouseSeries
TV-MA2018 · Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
HannibalSeries
TV-MA2013 · Drama, Crime · 3 seasons · Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
What We Do in the ShadowsSeries
TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 6 seasons · Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Garth Marenghi's DarkplaceSeries
2004 · Comedy, Mystery, Action & Adventure · 1 season · Matthew Holness, Matt Berry, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
Kolchak: The Night StalkerSeries
TV-PG1974 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage
Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures.
SupernaturalSeries
TV-142005 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 15 seasons · Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
FringeSeries
TV-142008 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
LutherSeries
TV-142010 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Idris Elba, Dermot Crowley, Hermione Norris, Michael Smiley
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts.
Ash vs Evil DeadSeries
TV-MA2015 · Comedy, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo, Lucy Lawless
Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.
GhostsSeries
TV-142019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 5 seasons · Charlotte Ritchie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby
A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.
Buffy the Vampire SlayerSeries
TV-141997 · Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 7 seasons · Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Emma Caulfield
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.
Rescue MeSeries
TV-MA2004 · Drama · 7 seasons · Denis Leary, Adam Ferrara, Andrea Roth, John Scurti
The aftermath of 9/11 has left the firefighters of the NYFD traumatized, and no one more so than Tommy Gavin. Recently separated from his wife and their three kids, Tommy drifts between sorrow and anger as he tries to shake the recurring nightmares of his fallen comrades, especially his late cousin, Jimmy Keefe. Working alongside veterans like Lt. “Lou” Shea, Franco Rivera and Sean Garrity, and rookie Mike Lombardi, Tommy battles alcohol and drugs as he struggles to remain first and foremost a New York City firefighter.
Julie and the PhantomsSeries
TV-G2020 · Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Madison Reyes, Charlie Gillespie, Sacha Carlson, Owen Patrick Joyner
Teenage Julie finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms -- a trio of ghostly guys -- become the band they were never able to be.
The Alfred Hitchcock HourSeries
TV-PG1962 · Crime, Mystery, Drama · 3 seasons · Alfred Hitchcock
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Sense8Series
TV-MA2015 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 2 seasons · Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Max Riemelt, Jamie Clayton, Bae Doona
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."
The OriginalsSeries
TV-142013 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 5 seasons · Joseph Morgan, Daniel Gillies, Charles Michael Davis, Riley Voelkel
The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.
Penny DreadfulSeries
TV-MA2014 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Harry Treadaway
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
Dexter: Original SinSeries
TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown, James Martinez
In 1991 Miami, Dexter Morgan transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcements' radar. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.
Wire in the BloodSeries
TV-MA2002 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 6 seasons · Robson Green, Mark Letheren, Mark Penfold, Simone Lahbib
Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill's uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.
The Walking DeadSeries
TV-MA2010 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 11 seasons · Lauren Cohan, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Melissa McBride
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.