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Shows that feel likeGuillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

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

If you loved Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, the closest series we have are Preacher (2016), Archive 81 (2022) and The Strain (2014). All three share Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities' contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Exorcist (2016).

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If Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are built on the same subject: demon

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

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 Strain
2014–2017 · 4 seasons · FX
★ 7.3sci-fi & fantasy · drama · mysteryHulu

Guillermo del Toro directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Lighter on dread

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

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

One thread runs through both: horror

The difference: Less cerebral, more its own thing

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

Drama built on dread, twice over

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

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: demon

The difference: Played as action & adventure first

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

Common ground: horror

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

The same preoccupation in both: dark fantasy

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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A Discovery of Witches
2018–2022 · 3 seasons · Sky One
★ 7.7sci-fi & fantasy · dramaNetflix

Both land ideas and dream logic at once

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

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American Horror Story
2011– · 13 seasons · FX
★ 7.9drama · mystery · sci-fi & fantasyPrime VideoHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

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.

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Swamp Thing
2019 · 1 season · DC Universe
★ 7.3mystery · sci-fi & fantasy · drama

One thread runs through both: halloween

CDC researcher Abby Arcane investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but she soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe.

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

Contemplative sci-fi & fantasy, and it commits to that

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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