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Shows that feel likeAmerican Horror Story (2011–)

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

If you loved American Horror Story, the closest series we have are Archive 81 (2022), The Exorcist (2016) and Preacher (2016). All three share American Horror Story's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Evil (2019).

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If American Horror Story hit the spot, these will too

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Archive 81
2022 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 7.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A cursed building, a cult, and a slow slide into someone else's nightmare

The difference: One tight season, hushed and restrained instead of loud and lurid

An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.

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The Exorcist
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · FOX
★ 7.9mystery · drama

A family invaded by something the church takes seriously

The difference: One sustained possession story, restrained and much quieter

Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

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Preacher
2016–2019 · 4 seasons · AMC
★ 7.9sci-fi & fantasy · mystery · dramaPrime Video

Gleeful blasphemy and grotesque imagery served with total confidence

The difference: One continuing road-trip story, more comic swagger than genuine dread

A preacher sets out on a mission to make the almighty himself confess his sin of abandoning the world. With his best friend Cassidy, an alcoholic Irish vampire, his love Tulip, a red blooded gun towing Texan, and the power of genesis, an unholy child born from an angel and a devil, Jesse gives up everything to set the world straight with its creator.

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★ 7drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

A new nightmare and a new world each episode, all lavishly mounted

The difference: Eight self-contained hours — craft and restraint instead of camp

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

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Supernatural
2005–2020 · 15 seasons · The WB
★ 8.4drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

American folklore dragged out of back roads and small-town basements

The difference: Two brothers followed for fifteen years — no reset, and far less lurid

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.

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Evil
2019–2024 · 4 seasons · CBS
★ 7.7crime · drama · mysteryParamount+

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Easier on the ideas than American Horror Story

Skeptical forensic psychologist Kristen Bouchard joins priest-in-training David Acosta and technology expert Ben Shakir as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to assess for a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.

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Hellbound
2021–2024 · 2 seasons · Netflix
★ 6.6drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyNetflix

The supernatural weaponised by believers who turn horror into doctrine

The difference: Cold, austere Korean drama — social argument first, spectacle second

Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.

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American Horror Stories
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Hulu
★ 6.3drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

House-style excess in miniature, chopped into one-off nightmares

The difference: Single episodes only — no season-long spiral to sink into

An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.

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The Shannara Chronicles
2016–2017 · 2 seasons · MTV
★ 7.1action & adventure · sci-fi & fantasy

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than American Horror Story does

A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.

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Twin Peaks
1990–2017 · 3 seasons · ABC
★ 8.7drama · mysteryParamount+

Both lean on dread more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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Constantine
2014–2015 · 1 season · NBC
★ 7.5action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

The difference: Sits closer to action & adventure than American Horror Story does

A man struggling with his faith is haunted by the sins of his past but is suddenly thrust into the role of defending humanity from the gathering forces of darkness.

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Shadowhunters
2016–2019 · 3 seasons · Freeform
★ 6.5action & adventure · drama · sci-fi & fantasyHulu

One thread runs through both: supernatural

When Clary Fray's mother has disappeared, Clary joins a band of Shadowhunters; demon killing hunters, and gets caught up in a plan to save the world.

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