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14 Emmys is less a haul and more a raid on the Emmy trophy cabinet, and Widow’s Bay left the 78th ceremony without hesitation with the cleaning.

The Apple TV horror comedy went home with ‘Outstanding Comedy Series’, best actor for Matthew Rhys, plus writing and directing wins under its arm for good measure, which is brilliant for a show about Tom Loftis, the mayor of a fading New England island whose residents keep warning him that the place is cursed, while he hears all of this and comes to the conclusion that what the island needs is tourists. Can you imagine? Haunted ground and locals telling you to steer clear, and this man sees a marketing opportunity.

Of course, the island has other ideas, and before long, his grand plan starts looking like a massive miscalculation, which was rather the point.

So if Widow’s Bay left you wanting more horror but with a good laugh, Netflix has five very good places to go from here.

Five Netflix horror comedies to fill the Widow’s Bay void

Haunted Hotel (2025–)

The closest cousin to Widow’s Bay in the list is Haunted Hotel on Netflix because here Katherine inherits the Undervale, moves in with her children and finds her dead brother Nathan still knocking about, while a motley crew of spectral residents turns the already thankless business of keeping a hotel afloat into a farce, and well, there’s your family resemblance straight away.

And as if the ghosts weren’t already enough of a headache, in comes Abaddon, an ancient demon in a Puritan child’s body who is a whole nightmare package, so hotel management has rather gone out the window by this point.

Created by former Rick and Morty writer Matt Roller, it lets the macabre and the ridiculous rub along together without making a dog’s dinner of either, and with season two arriving on October 9th, the Undervale clearly has plenty more aggro in store.

Santa Clarita Diet (2017–2019)

Now take the supernatural mess of Widow’s Bay and chuck it into sunny California because that’s basically where Santa Clarita Diet starts: Sheila and Joel Hammond have houses to sell and a teenage daughter to raise, and then, just to really put the cat among the pigeons, Sheila develops an appetite for human flesh. Yes, it is as bonkers as it sounds.

And it only follows that trail of crazy, because Drew Barrymore’s Sheila is all smiles while Joel is left doing the husbandly support act, except now that means finding and hiding bodies and trying not to let the neighbours think that anything is off.

Very normal marriage stuff, obviously. Netflix gave us three seasons of this mess from 2017 to 2019 and then cancelled it on a cliffhanger, which still stings, very bloody much.

Crazyhead (2016)

Crazyhead comes from Howard Overman, the man behind British cult hit Misfits, so you already know that ‘behaving’ is out of the window. Amy works at a bowling alley, keeps seeing creatures nobody else can see and starts wondering whether she has lost the plot, and then Raquel comes with the answer: they are demons, so that’s one mystery solved and about ten fresh headaches dumped on the table.

From there, the pair are stuck dealing with possession and all the usual 20-something problems they already had before Hell got involved.

Sounds a little like Widow’s Bay, right as, instead of a whole town knowing what’s going on, you are finding it all out alongside Amy and Raquel, and we have six episodes and just one season, so done in a weekend.

Dead Boy Detectives (2024)

But if the ghosts were what you liked most in Widow’s Bay, then Dead Boy Detectives is totally worth a look, because Edwin Payne and Charles Rowland are dead and run a detective agency for supernatural clients.

When you think about it, it is one hell of a way to keep busy when you are already a ghost. Then Crystal Palace joins them, Esther Finch starts causing trouble, and well, so much for a peaceful afterlife. Oh, and fun fact, the show is set in the same universe as The Sandman, but you don’t need to know any of that before watching, so no homework, thank God for that.

You get ghosts, strange cases and a very British double act carrying the whole thing, but Netflix cancelled it after one season in 2024, leaving us with yet another show that became a one-season wonder, whether anyone wanted that or not.

Boo, Bitch (2022)

Now, if you want the supernatural nonsense without quite so much doom and gloom, Boo, Bitch is your lighter little detour, because Erika and Gia are about to graduate, realise they have spent most of high school being the background characters and decide, enough of that.

All they want is one big night, to make some memories and to leave a mark. Except Erika wakes up the next morning, finds a body under a moose and comes to the rather inconvenient conclusion that she might be dead. And this is where the show has a bit of fun with you, because instead of turning death into some grand tragedy, it chucks popularity and teenage ego into the same pot and lets Erika make a right meal of the whole thing.

It is more teen comedy than proper horror, granted, but that Widow’s Bay streak is still there. Lana Condor stars and executive-produces, and you get to see that she is so much more than just being the mushy Lara Jean.