Upcoming Horror TV Shows: American Horror Story 13, Carrie, Crystal Lake And More In October

The 2026 TV schedule is about to get its biggest dose of horror series yet, just in time for spooky season and Halloween's eventual arrival. With the genre's massive box office success showing no sign of stopping thanks to Resident Evil, it's quite possibly the most ideal time to be a horror fan in recent memory. We've got new shows for classic characters like Carrie White, Jason Voorhees, and AHS' Rubber Suit Man.

Here are the shows currently airing, followed by what's coming in the next few months, and then we'll extend our scope to what's on the way in 2027. Make sure those flashlight and phone batteries are fresh, and let's go!

Currently Airing Horror TV Shows

Horror TV Shows Coming Soon In 2026

American Horror Story Season 13 (FX)

• Release Date: September 24, 2026
• The Cast: Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe, Leslie Grossman, John Waters, Joey Pollari, John Carroll Lynch, Alex Consani, Paul Anthony Kelly, Frances Conroy, Mena Suvari, Madelaine Petsch, Jamie Brewer, Orlando Jones
• The Creators: Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
• What’s AHS Season 13 About? Ryan Murphy has described 13 as an all-star season where the franchise's biggest heroes and monsters will return for a good vs. evil battle like no other.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Just about everybody who's ever played a beloved role in AHS is back. (Justice for Denis O'Hare and Lily Rabe!) And the fact that John Waters will be giggling like a madman next to Jessica Lange at some point? It's impossible to not be giddy about it.

Carrie (Prime Video)

• Release Date: October 7, 2026 (All episodes)
• The Cast: Summer H. Howell, Samantha Sloyan, Siena Agudong, Amber Midthunder, Joel Oulette, Matthew Lillard, Arthur Conti, Alison Thornton, Josie Totah, Kate Siegel, Katee Sackhoff, Heather Graham, Rahul Kohli
• The Creator: Mike Flanagan (based on Stephen King’s novel)
• What’s Carrie About? Expert Stephen King adapter Mike Flanagan is reinterpreting the author's first published novel to bring its misfit teenager Carrie White into the modern age of bullying and social traumas.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Any new Stephen King adaptations and/or any new Mike Flanagan project is all it takes. But given how faithful the creator's past efforts have been, I'm particularly excited to see how he brings a new spin to this well-established story.

Below (Netflix)

• Release Date: October 8, 2026 (All episodes)
• The Cast: John Hartnett, Charlie Heaton, Mackenzie Davis, Natasha Henstridge, Joshua Close, Rohan Campbell, Willow Kean, Ruby Stokes, Kaleb Horn, Mary Walsh
• The Creator: Jesse McKeown
• What’s Below About? A remote fishing town in Newfoundland is suddenly targeted and terrorized by a mysterious sea creature, with a world-weary fisherman doing all he can to keep his family and community safe,
• Why We’re Most Excited: It's a return to horror for Penny Dreadful's Josh Hartnett and Stranger Things' Charlie Heaton, and as Widow's Bay proved, small towns make for great genre settings.

Haunted Hotel Season 2 (Netflix)

• Release Date: October 9 (All episodes)
• The Cast: Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Natalie Palamides, Jimmi Simpson, Skyler Gisondo,
• The Creator: Matt Roller
• What’s Haunted Hotel About? The adult animated series centers on a family who takes ownership of a New York hotel whose guests aren't always of the living and breathing variety.
• Why We’re Most Excited: The first season was a fun balance of wacky comedy and spooky storytelling, with the stakes raised quite a bit as the season went on. Hopefully that remains true for Season 2.

Crystal Lake (Peacock)

• Release Date: October 15 (All episodes)
• The Cast: Linda Cardellini, William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins, Gwendolyn Sundstrom, Callum Vinson
• The Creators: Brad Caleb Kane (based on characters created by Victor Miller)
• What’s Crystal Lake About? The show aims to explore the trials and trauamas of the Friday the 13th franchise's original killer, Pamela Voorhees, with Linda Cardellini portraying a camp-loving mother whose life gets torn apart after her son Jason falls prey to the titular lake as teen counselors were obvlivious. There's more to the story than fans are aware of.
• Why We’re Most Excited: You had me at “Linda Cardellini playing Pamela Voorhees,” but the general idea of bringing an episodic approach to Friday the 13th’s central location, while also expanding it beyond the slasher subgenre, is wildly ambitious and exciting.

Yaga (AMC+)

• Release Date: October 23, 2026
• The Cast: Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo, Hudson Williams, Megan Follows, Ezra Franky, Patrick Golmore, Sheila McCarthy
• The Creator: Kat Sandler
• What’s Yaga About? Based on the stage play that Sandler also created, Yaga centers on a P.I. investigating the disappearance of a wealthy company heir in a small coastal town. Enter a university professor with a roaming eye, some old magic and other small-town weridos, and you have a modern retelling of the Baby Yaga legend.
• Why We’re Most Excited: The subject matter is quite interesting in and of itself, but the cast of talented Canadaian actors is a plus as well.

Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 (Paramount+, Showtime)

• Release Date: October 30, 2026 (Weekly)
• The Cast: Michael C. Hall, Uma Thurman, James Remar, Jack Alcott, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Brian Cox, Dan Stevens, Bokeem Woodbine, Desmond Harrington, Nona Parker Johnson, Krysten Ritter (guest star), Gabriel Luna (guest star)
• The Creators: Clyde Phillips
• What’s Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 About? The second season of the New York City-set spinoff has Dexter in the middle of tracking down two very different killers: the New York Ripper that's haunted the city for decades, and a newer monster whose tactics are unlike any that have come before.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Seeing Brian Cox and Dan Stevens within the Dexter-verse will be great, but I'm kind of looking forward to how much this season will dig into Michael C. Hall's character realizing how much age is affecting his status quo, and how much that will play into his story with Harrison.

Yellowjackets Season 4 (Paramount+, Showtime)

• Release Date: November 20, 2026 (Weekly)
• The Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Sophie Nelisse, Tawny Cypress, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Christina Ricci, Sammi Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Nia Sondaya, Jenna Burgess, Molly Ringwald, June Squibb, Hilary Swank, Elijah Wood, Ken Marino, Devon Sawa, Dulé Hill
• The Creators: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, and Jonathan Lisco, who are all back as co-showrunners for the final season.
• What’s Yellowjackets Season 4 About? Given that this will be the final season, fans can expect to see exactly how the teen soccer team was rescued from the wilderness, what happened after Hilary Swank’s Melissa killed Van, how Shauna’s attempt to reclaim her Antler Queen power goes, and a heck of a lot more.
• Why We’re Most Excited: We want answers for all the weird crap that's happened to these characters over the past three seasons!

Everything Premiering Beyond 2026

The Last Of Us Season 3 (HBO)

• Release Date: TBA 2027 (Producer is expected to conclude in November 2026)
• The Cast: Bella Ramsey, Kaitlyn Dever, Young Mazino, Isabella Merced, Gabriel Luna, Spencer Lord, Tabi Gabrielle, Ariela Barer, Michelle Mao, Kyriana Kratter, Jason Ritter, Patrick Wilson, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Li Jun Li, Peter Sarsgaard
• The Creators: Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. (Druckmann exited the show following Season 2, leaving Mazin as sole showrunner for Season 3.)
• What’s The Last Of Us Season 3 About? Taking inspiration from the video game series, Season 3 will jump back in the timeline to center on Dever’s Abby and her group, which will add a new world of context to her minimal-but-violent interactions with Ellie and Joel.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Kaitlyn Dever leading any TV show would be worth watching, but I'm especially pumped to see her in action hero mode taking on clickers and other nasties, while also building up enough of an emotional bond with her father to make Joel's actions all the more horrifying in retrospect.

IT: Welcome To Derry Season 2

• Release Date: TBA 2027
• The Cast: Bill Skarsgård
• The Creators: Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs
• What’s IT: Welcome to Derry About? Rather than going forward in time, Season 2 will travel back to IT's resurfacing during 1935 and the Great Depression, centering in part on a group of bank robbers dubbed the Bradley Gang.
• Why We’re Most Excited: It's an ambitious move to go backwards in telling the history of this ancient evil, but I loved a lot of the connective tissue that Season 1 set up, and can't wait to see how the creative team will continue expanding the germs of ideas from Stephen King's 1986 novel.

Alien: Earth Season 2 (FX)

• Release Date: TBA (Filming set to start in late May 2026)
• The Cast: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, Timothy Olyphant, Adrian Edmondson, Peter Dinklage
• The Creators: Noah Hawley
• What’s Alien: Earth Season 2 About? At this point, all we know is that the second season will follow up on Wendy's successful attempt to take control away from Boy Kavalier and his company. Given Noah Hawley's penchant for secrecy, this might be all we know until the first trailer comes out.
• Why We’re Most Excited: The first season was a smart and visceral mix of classic Alien thrills and action, with an added layer of Peter Pan mythology to aid in the overarching synthetics storyline. If Hawley is able to up the ante even slightly, it could be peak TV in whatever year it actually comes out.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 4 (AMC, AMC+)

• Release Date: TBA 2027
• The Cast: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Alexandra Masangkay, Hugo Arbués, Candela Saitta, Jimmy Smits
• The Creators: David Zabel
• What’s TWD: Daryl Dixon Season 4 About? It's the final season of the first Walking Dead spinoff to take the action to the other side of the planet, and fans can expect to see Daryl and Carol making their biggest effort yet to find a way back to their found family back in the U.S.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Never did I think I'd see Jimmy Smits enter this particular post-apocalypse, but I can already foresee his guest spot in the final season being an all-time highlight.

Wednesday Season 3 (Netflix)

• Release Date: TBA 2027
• The Cast: Jenna Ortega, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Billie Piper, Joanna Lumly, Thandiwe Newton, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Georgie Farmer, Moosa, Mostafa, Isaac Ordonez, Evie Templeton, Eva Green, Fred Armisen
• The Creators: Alfred Gough and Miles Millar
• What’s Wednesday Season 3 About? Filming started in February, but not much has been revealed about the new season just yet, though it'll certainly follow up on Tyler joining a pack of secret Hydes, as well as bringing in a formal introduction to Ophelia Addams.
• Why We’re Most Excited: Personally, I'm all about seeing as much of Evie Templeton's Wednesday-obsessed Agnes as possible, but getting our first looks at Eva Green playing Morticia's sister Ophelia is also a huge draw. Enid's well-being is also important.

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