Salem's Lot

Series Similar to Salem's Lot

If you enjoyed Salem's Lot, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. The Secret of Crickley Hall

   2012 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Chilling ghost story adapted from James Herbert's novel, telling both the story of the modern day haunting of a troubled family and the dark events buried in their new home's past.

2. Chapelwaite

   2021 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Mystery profile.

   Chapelwaite follows Captain Charles Boone, who relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher's Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. However, Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family's sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

3. The Exorcist

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, highly rated (8).

   The Exorcist is a propulsive psychological thriller following two very different priests tackling one family's case of horrifying demonic possession. Father Tomas Ortega is the new face of the Catholic Church: progressive, ambitious and compassionate. He runs a small, but loyal, parish in the suburbs of Chicago. He has no idea that his quiet life is about to change forever. Deep in the slums of Mexico City, another priest has found himself locked in a life-and-death struggle with evil. Father Marcus Keane is a modern-day Templar Knight, an orphan raised since childhood by the Vatican to wage war against its enemies. Father Marcus is everything Father Tomas is not: relentless, abrasive and utterly consumed by his mission - and he constantly butts heads with his adversary within the church, Father Bennett.

4. Midnight Mass

   2021 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Mystery profile.

   The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

5. The Haunting of Hill House

   2018 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Mystery profile, highly rated (8.3).

   The Haunting of Hill House is a modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson's classic 1959 novel. Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

6. Eastwick

   2009 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Mystery profile, hidden gem.

   Three very different women find themselves drawn together by a mysterious man who unleashes unique powers in each of them, and this small New England town will never be the same. The series is based on the popular movie "The Witches of Eastwick" and on the novel of the same title by John Updike.

7. Da Vinci's Demons

   2013 · Drama, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, highly rated (8).

   In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His aspirations are used against him by opposing forces – luring him into a game of seduction where those who despise his intellect need him most.His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light. His story becomes a mirror into our own world, calling us all to join his fight to free the future.

8. Outcast

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Supernatural · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile.

   Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by possession since he was a child. Now an adult, he embarks on a journey to find answers but what he uncovers could mean the end of life on Earth as we know it.

9. Carnivàle

   2003 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, highly rated (8).

   Carnivàle is set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny, the storyline mixes Christian theology with Gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

10. Nightmares & Dreamscapes

    2006 · Drama, Horror · ended

    Recommended for similar Horror profile, also on TNT.

    This anthology series of eight one-hour episodes adapted from King's short stories will feature such notable performers as Emmy winner and Oscar® nominee William H. Macy(Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), who star in Umney's Last Case; Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings), who star in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot) and Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar), who headline The Fifth Quarter; Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall), who star in The End of the Whole Mess; Oscar® nominee Tom Berenger(Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier), who star in The Road Virus Heads North; and Oscar® winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village), who headlines Battleground.