Four horror series on Netflix to close the spook-book in 2026
As much as the public loves the gory Halloween decorations in the front yard, they appreciate the eerie overhaul on Netflix’s homepage twice as much.
But now that October is counting down its final days, it’s time to face a bitter reality check. Soon, the spooky decorations will go back to the dusty shelves, waiting for another trip around the sun, and with that, so will the evergreen horror suggestions that mainly come out of the grave around this time.
So, if you’re planning to make the most of the ominous watchlist, it should sure go with a proper bang.
For those eyeing a proper horror trip before the clock resets, here are four horror series on Netflix to close the spook-book this year.
Four horror shows on Netflix to wrap up the spooky season
Black Summer (John Hyams and Abram Cox, 2019-2021)
Netflix’s horror collection is not short of menacing entities. And since this list is all about venturing into darker territories, there’s no skipping Black Summer! Co-created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams, the zombie-apocalypse horror-drama series is set in the wee hours of a deadly zombie virus outbreak, which serves as an unofficial prequel to Z Nation. It follows Rose, a mother who gets separated from her young daughter during the chaos.
Determined to find her daughter at any cost, Rose embarks on a perilous mission and is eventually joined by a desperate group of refugees and survivors. Black Summer centres on a mother’s pursuit of her daughter, who will stop at nothing until she tracks her down, even if it means outrunning and outsmarting the growing hordes of zombies all her life.
Marianne (Samuel Bodin, 2019)
Directed by Samuel Bodin, Marianne is probably one of the most underrated horror series currently streaming on Netflix. The French Netflix Original series centres on popular adult horror author Emma Larsimon, whose literary career took an eclipse with the Lizzie Larck book series, where the heroine tackles an ancient, evil witch named Marianne. But as the show begins, Emma decides to retire the series by killing off Lizzie to end the book series.
Although she plans to move on from horror literary ventures, a childhood friend visits her with an alarming revelation and in a terrifying turn of events, the latter’s mother is possessed by Marianne. While she thought Marianne a figment of her childhood nightmares, Emma realises more unseen forces are at work than she reckons. Marianne follows Emma as she returns to her dreary seaside hometown to confront the ghosts of her past quite literally.
Midnight Mass (Mike Flanagan, 2021)
A horror marathon on Netflix cannot do without the king of spook, Mike Flanagan. So, the next entry on our horror farewell list is Midnight Mass. Set in the small, fragmented community of Crockett Island, the supernatural horror series follows Riley Flynn as he returns to his struggling, secluded hometown after serving prison time for a fatal driving accident, which coincides with the arrival of a charismatic young priest named Father Paul.
Father Paul arrives to replace the island’s elderly leader, Monsignor Pruitt, a figure no one has seen, and, on his coattails, brings a series of miraculous events that follow. Midnight Mass centres on the residents of Crockett Island as they find renewed religious fervour in the new priest, oblivious that his arrival is forcing them to a dark reality and the end of the beginning.
Yellowjackets (Karyn Kusama, Ben Semanoff, Eva Sørhaug and Jennifer Morrison, 2021-2023)
Netflix’s October arrival arc has paid off in gold, and we might as well cash in on it this Halloween season with Yellowjackets. The series is billed as a psychological thriller that intensely blends survival horror, mystery, and folk horror. At the heart of the story is a high school girls’ soccer team from New Jersey whose private plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 while en route to a national championship tournament in Seattle.
Stuck without supervision and basic survival amenities for 19 months, the teens face harsh realities, brutal weather, hunger, and injury, forcing them to learn hunting and foraging. But as the social seclusion, psychological stress, and supernatural belief systems become comfortable, a fragmentation occurs, leaving the group to divide into ritualistic clans that survive on cannibalism. Yellowjackets diverges between past and present timelines to follow the survivors whose threats persist like glue.