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The Scary Files

Horror and terror that keeps you up at night.


These 40 films have been quietly catalogued into a collection the editors call, simply, “Scary.” They are not ranked by box office. They are not sorted by release. They are arranged by something harder to measure — a shared emotional frequency, a kinship of mood. What follows is the reading list. Begin where you like. Read until you find the one that looks back.

  1. 01.
    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone

    1959·Created by Rod Serling·9.0

    An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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  2. 02.
    Death Note

    Death Note

    2006·8.9

    Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

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  3. 03.
    Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938

    Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938

    2023·Created by Jo Nam-hyung·8.8

    The Nine-tailed fox makes a crash landing in the year 1938, an era of chaos, and he struggles to return to the present.

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  4. 04.
    Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    1990·Created by Mark Frost·8.7

    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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  5. 05.
    Madan Senki Ryukendo

    Madan Senki Ryukendo

    2006·Created by Oji Hiroi·8.7

    Akebono City is a peaceful community overflowing with humanity. Since there was a Power Spot that released the magical power in the community, the people were distressed by the threat of the demon army Jamanga who are gathering Minus Energy from the frightened masses for a sinister purpose. The secret organization S.H.O.T. was formed to protect the people of the community from the Jamanga, concealing their existence as ordinary members of the Akebono Police Station, which considers demons beyond their jurisdiction. Kenji Narukami, a student of the Narukami Dragon God Style for fighting demons, arrives at Akebono to fight the demons, eventually getting his wish when he is transformed to RyuKenDo and faces off against Jamanga's forces together with his friends to restore peace in the community.

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  6. 06.
    Berserk

    Berserk

    1997·8.7

    Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.

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  7. 07.
    The X-Files

    The X-Files

    1993·Created by Chris Carter·8.6

    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.

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  8. 08.
    One-Punch Man

    One-Punch Man

    2015·8.6

    Saitama is a hero who only became a hero for fun. After three years of “special” training, though, he’s become so strong that he’s practically invincible. In fact, he’s too strong—even his mightiest opponents are taken out with a single punch, and it turns out that being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. With his passion for being a hero lost along with his hair, yet still faced with new enemies every day, how much longer can he keep it going?

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  9. 09.
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

    2012·8.6

    Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.

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  10. 10.
    Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

    Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics

    1987·8.6

    Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and not limited to Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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  11. 11.
    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

    2019·8.6

    After a demon attack leaves his family slain and his sister cursed, Tanjiro embarks upon a perilous journey to find a cure and avenge those he's lost.

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  12. 12.
    Stranger Things

    Stranger Things

    2016·Created by Ross Duffer·8.6

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

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  13. 13.
    Release that Witch

    Release that Witch

    2026·8.5

    Roland, a modern man reborn as a prince in the dangerous Border Town, rescues the witches Anna and Nana Pine from the Church. Harnessing their extraordinary powers, he fuses magic and technology to craft weapons, armies, and steam engines to defend his people. As the Demon Moon rises and conspiracies close in on his family, Roland must lead a revolution to protect his allies and reshape the world.

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  14. 14.
    Lord of Mysteries

    Lord of Mysteries

    2025·Created by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving·8.5

    In a Victorian world of steam, dreadnoughts, and occult horrors, Zhou Mingrui awakens as Klein Moretti. He walks a razor’s edge between light and darkness, entangled with warring Churches. This is the legend of unlimited potential…and unspeakable danger.

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  15. 15.
    Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

    Samurai Sentai Shinkenger

    2009·8.5

    For eighteen generations, samurai of the Shiba Clan have suppressed the evil intentions of the Gedoushu, malevolent spirits that enter the world of the living from gaps between buildings and other structures. Now, Takeru Shiba, the youngest head of the Shiba Clan must gather his four vassals in order to battle the Gedoushu under the revived Doukoku Chimatsuri as the Shinkengers.

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  16. 16.
    Yu Yu Hakusho

    Yu Yu Hakusho

    1992·8.5

    After dying to save a boy, delinquent tough guy Yusuke Urameshi is granted another chance at life by redeeming himself as a "Spirit Detective."

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  17. 17.
    JUJUTSU KAISEN

    JUJUTSU KAISEN

    2020·8.5

    Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

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  18. 18.
    The Haunting of Hill House

    The Haunting of Hill House

    2018·Created by Mike Flanagan·8.5

    Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

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  19. 19.
    Mushi-Shi

    Mushi-Shi

    2005·8.5

    Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.

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  20. 20.
    Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

    Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

    2016·Created by Lee Eung-bok·8.5

    In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.

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  21. 21.
    The Spirealm

    The Spirealm

    2024·Created by Danny Pang Phat·8.5

    Jiu Shi’s skills are pushed to the edge as he faces life-or-death challenges inside a brutal VR maze.

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  22. 22.
    The Legend of Vox Machina

    The Legend of Vox Machina

    2022·Created by Chris Prynoski·8.4

    They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.

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  23. 23.
    Ghosts

    Ghosts

    2019·Created by Mathew Baynton·8.4

    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.

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  24. 24.
    Love Between Fairy and Devil

    Love Between Fairy and Devil

    2022·Created by Jiu Lu Fei Xiang·8.4

    When a low-ranked fairy accidentally resurrects a powerful demon, their fates become cosmically entangled as the world is thrown into turmoil.

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  25. 25.
    Supernatural

    Supernatural

    2005·Created by Eric Kripke·8.4

    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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  26. 26.
    Ash vs Evil Dead

    Ash vs Evil Dead

    2015·Created by Sam Raimi·8.4

    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.

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  27. 27.
    Dan Da Dan

    Dan Da Dan

    2024·8.3

    In a bet to prove whether ghosts or aliens exist, two high schoolers face terrifying paranormal threats, gain superpowers and maybe even fall in love?!

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  28. 28.
    Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition

    Berserk: The Golden Age Arc – Memorial Edition

    2022·8.3

    A wandering warrior ends up joining a mercenary group led by a charismatic leader, in this remastered, episodic cut of the film trilogy.

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  29. 29.
    Chainsaw Man

    Chainsaw Man

    2022·8.3

    Denji has a simple dream—to live a happy and peaceful life, spending time with a girl he likes. This is a far cry from reality, however, as Denji is forced by the yakuza into killing devils in order to pay off his crushing debts. Using his pet devil Pochita as a weapon, he is ready to do anything for a bit of cash.

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  30. 30.
    So Weird

    So Weird

    1999·Created by Tom J. Astle·8.3

    Fourteen-year-old Fi Phillips investigates the paranormal while touring the country in a bus with her widowed rock-star mom and her skeptical brother, Jack. At the beginning of Season 3, Fi passed the job of case cracker to a songbird named Annie

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  31. 31.
    Castlevania

    Castlevania

    2017·Created by Warren Ellis·8.3

    A vampire hunter fights to save a besieged city from an army of otherworldly beasts controlled by Dracula himself.

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  32. 32.
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    1997·Created by Joss Whedon·8.3

    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.

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  33. 33.
    Are You Afraid of the Dark?

    Are You Afraid of the Dark?

    1992·Created by D.J. MacHale·8.2

    This spooky anthology series for kids recounts ghost stories told by the young members of the Midnight Society as they gather around a campfire. Each episode opens with members of the Midnight Society at their secret spot in the woods, where they prepare their fire and the night's storyteller announces the title of the his or her offering. However, the cameras soon leave the storyteller and switch to the tale being told.

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  34. 34.
    Arthdal Chronicles

    Arthdal Chronicles

    2019·Created by Kim Won-suk·8.2

    In a mythical land called Arth, the inhabitants of the ancient city of Arthdal and its surrounding regions vie for power as they build a new society.

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  35. 35.
    Penny Dreadful

    Penny Dreadful

    2014·Created by John Logan·8.2

    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.

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  36. 36.
    Hellsing Ultimate

    Hellsing Ultimate

    2006·8.2

    For over a century, the mysterious Hellsing Organization has been secretly protecting the British Empire from the undead. When Sir Integra Hellsing succeeded as the head of the organization, she also inherited the ultimate weapon against these supernatural enemies: Alucard, a rogue vampire possessing mysterious and frightening powers. Now, Hellsing must deal with a more dangerous threat than vampires.

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  37. 37.
    Carmilla

    Carmilla

    2014·Created by Jordan Hall·8.2

    Laura Hollis, a newly enrolled college student at Silas University, shares a room with Betty, who mysteriously disappears all of a sudden. Little does Laura know that after this fateful night, nothing will be the same in her life, starting with meeting her new roommate from hell, Carmilla Karnstein. "Carmilla" is a single-camera, scripted transmedia series that puts a modern spin on the cult classic Gothic vampire novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It's a story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire.

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  38. 38.
    Thriller

    Thriller

    1960·8.2

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

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  39. 39.
    Bleach

    Bleach

    2004·8.2

    For as long as he can remember, Ichigo Kurosaki has been able to see ghosts. But when he meets Rukia, a Soul Reaper who battles evil spirits known as Hollows, he finds his life is changed forever. Now, with a newfound wealth of spiritual energy, Ichigo discovers his true calling: to protect the living and the dead from evil.

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  40. 40.
    The Originals

    The Originals

    2013·Created by Julie Plec·8.2

    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.

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