It's spooky season!
(L-R) Agatha All Along; Hannibal; Interview With the VampireMarvel Studios/Disney+; NBC; AMCIt's Halloween time… and if you're trying to get into spooky mood, there's nothing better than a good (and gay!) horror TV show!
Horror TV is great because it lets you choose how long you want to watch something — which means that you have control over how deep into the horror you want to get! For instance, you can watch one episode a day, get some relief from the terror, and go back in. Otherwise, you can binge the whole season, seeing all the horrors play out back to back.
Scroll through to check out 20 great, queer AF horror TV shows and where you can stream them this Halloween season!
1. Chucky
Chucky was created by Don Mancini, a gay man, and several of the films feature queer characters and themes, including Chucky's child Glen. In the recent Chucky series for Syfy, the main character is a queer teen boy named Jake. Throughout the series, Jake and his boyfriend fight against the possessed doll.
Where to watch: Peacock
2. Los Espookys
Spanish-language series Los Espookys follows a group of misfit friends who form a horror group that creates real-life scares for clients who need them. The show is co-created by Julio Torres who plays the gay character Andres. Renaldo, the leader of the group also seems to be asexual.
Where to watch: Max
3. What We Do in the Shadows
One of the best comedies on TV, What We Do in the Shadows, is also one of the gayest. Matt Berry plays Laszlo Cravensworth, a pansexual and hedonistic vampire, and Kayvan Novak plays Nandor the Relentless, who is also bisexual, and is currently in a will-they-or-won't-they relationship with his former familiar Guillermo, played by out actor Harvey Guillen.
Where to watch: Hulu
4. Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
The new TV adaptation of this classic novel turns up the gayness to 100. AMC's Interview With the Vampire stars Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt, two vampires and lovers. If you want horror that's dripping in gay sex, this is the show for you.
Where to watch: AMC+
5. Queer for Fear
Queer for FearShudderThe Queer for Fear docuseries on Shudder features film experts, critics, queer icons, and horror fans discussing the queer history of horror, going all the way back to black and white silent films and continuing to today.
Where to watch: Shudder
6. Sandman
Netflix's better-than-perfect adaptation of Neil Gaiman's classic horror-fantasy comics, The Sandman, bring the Lord of Dream to life, along with a whole set of nightmares, both literal and figurative. It's got enough terror to feed even the most ravenous horror fan.
Where to watch: Netflix
7. Yellowjackets
After a high school girls' soccer team's plane crashes in the Canadian Rockies, the team must try to survive in the wilderness until they are rescued. What followed was murder, supernatural mysteries, and cannibalism. Yellowjackets also follows the adult versions of the survivors and the horrors that continue to follow them.
Where to watch: Paramount+
8. The Owl House
The Owl House, a Disney animated series, is about a human girl who gets transported to the magical Demon Realm where she pursues her dream of becoming a witch. The main character, Luz, is bisexual, and has a girlfriend, and many other characters in the show as queer as well.
Where to watch: Disney+
9. The Haunting of Bly Manor
Make Flanagan's gothic supernatural series The Haunting of Bly Manor is his followup to The Haunting of Hill House, and it focuses on a young au pair (Victoria Pedretti) who starts to take care of two children at the haunted Bly estate. There, she meets Jamie, the manor's gardener, and the two fall in love.
Where to watch: Netflix
10. Hannibal
Bryan Fuller's version of the Hannibal mythos is just about as gay as you can get. This Hannibal show centered on the obsessive relationship between serial killer Hannibal Lecter and FBI profiler Will Graham features plenty of queer actors, including Scott Thompson, Raul Esparza, Eddie Izzard, Cynthia Nixon, and Richard Armitage. It also homoeroticizes the central relationship and Hannibal's love of eating human flesh.
Where to watch: Prime Video
11. Ghosts
Ghosts is an American remake of a British series — a comedy about a couple who moves into a newly inherited estate, only to find that the wife can see and hear the ghosts that reside there. One of the ghosts is Captain Isaac Higgintoot, a gay Revolutionary War officer, played by Brandon Scott Jones.
Where to watch: Prime Video
12. Scream Queens
Ryan Murphy's dark comedy slasher series Scream Queens took place at fictional Wallace University, where students played by stars like Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Glen Powell, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Ariana Grande, and Nick Jonas, are stalked by a serial killer.
Where to watch: Hulu
13. Velma
This unfairly maligned Scooby Doo show focuses on Velma, played by Mindy Kaling, and gives her a high school romance with fellow Mystery Machine crew member Daphne. Velma got a lot of hate, but is actually hilarious, clever, and gay AF.
Where to watch: Max
14. American Horror Story
Throughout its 12 seasons, American Horror Story has told tales of witches, ghosts, circuses, cults, aliens, and even the apocalypse, often starring great actors like Evan Peters, Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe, Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy, Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Adina Porter, and Denis O'Hare.
Where to watch: Hulu
15. True Blood
True Blood is a deeply bisexual supernatural series starred Anna Paquin as a telepathic waitress working in Louisiana shortly after vampires have introduced themselves to the world. It features several queer characters throughout its seven seasons.
Where to watch: Max
16. Agatha All Along
The spooky and silly Agatha All Along series follows Agatha Harkness, a witch in the MCU, and her coven as they take on the terrifying challenge of the Witches' Road. It seems like nearly her entire coven is queer, including Agatha and Rio (Aubrey Plaza), who seem to be exes, and Wiccan a.k.a. Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke).
Where to watch: Disney+
17. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
In this modern and macabre update of the classic Archie comics character, Sabrina has several queer friends, including her pansexual cousin Ambrose, and a trans friend named Theo. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a fun ride!
Where to watch: Netflix
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy is a classic monster-of-the-week show starring a teen vampire slayer and her friends as they try to save their town from vampires, demons, dark magic, and all sorts of other baddies. One of Buffy's best friends is the queer witch Willow.
Where to watch: Hulu
19. Stranger Things
Stranger Things throws back to the 80s, and follows a group of young friends who begin to witness supernatural happenings and a secret government plot surrounding their young, psychic friend. In the group are Will Byers, who is gay, and Robin Buckley, who is a lesbian.
Where to watch: Netflix
20. The Last of Us
Probably the best video game adaptation ever, The Last of Us focuses on a young, queer girl, and her father figure as they try to cross the country following a fungus-led zombie apocalypse.
Where to watch: Max
