An anthology work which, as the name suggests, specializes in one particular genre of fiction. Like your standard anthology, there are no regular characters between stories (at best, you'll have a slew of recurring actors), with the possible exception of a host or narrator who introduces/closes/comments on each story. See also Anthology Series.
The most common genres tackled in these collections are Horror and Speculative Fiction, since the self-contained nature of each story allows for the brief exploration of more experimental ideas and concepts without having to worry about the need for continuity, allowing the creators to put characters in unwinnable situations or kill everyone off.
Compare/contrast to Thematic Series, which rather than an exact genre, stories are based around a particular idea or question.
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Comic Books
- Action Comics began as another one of these populating The Golden Age of Comic Books... but a certain guy in blue tights and a red cape became the breakout star instantly from Issue 1. Other unrelated stories were still included in the book for awhile, but eventually it just became Superman's book, even after he got his own self-titled series, and it remains so after 80 years of continuous publication.
- Adventure Comics was DC's second anthology comic, focusing on adventures before shifting to super-heroes.
- Detective Comics was not quite the first genre anthology in comic books, but it was the first successful single-genre anthology comic, laying the groundwork for the format that would be most popular through The Golden Age of Comic Books. Eventually though, like with Action Comics, its most popular character would take over completely, though over the years the title has occasionally shifted to focusing specifically on other Bat-characters for periods of time.
- Historically, most British comics have tended to be anthologies. They would contain multiple strips per issue and replace one strip with another fairly often. Whilst comics like The Beano, The Dandy, or 2000 AD technically avert this trope by having some strips that have lasted decades, it's played straighter with titles like TV Comic, which chopped and changed according to what was on TV at the time.
- All of the EC Comics series were these covering a few genres, with each issue featuring four stories. The genres covered were primarily horror, science fiction, crime and war. When The Comics Code Authority came clamping down and forced the cancellation of many titles the publisher got desperate and branched out into tamer fare. Bizarre new books started like Psychoanalysis, which focused on patients visiting a psychiatrist, M.D., which showcase the day-to-day lives of doctors and EXTRA!, which followed reporters in their investigations. Needless to say, the new books weren't successful and EC closed down soon after.
- Tales from the Crypt is a horror anthology comic published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955, which is renowned for its macabre storytelling, dark humor, and twist endings.
- Sensation Comics, which while not introducing Wonder Woman (her debut was a backup feature in All-Star Comics #8) became the book she would take over as the star of similar to the rest of the Trinity. Unlike Action Comics and Detective Comics though, Sensation fell to the side after Diana got her own series.
- Showcase was a DC comics anthology from the 1950s notable for introducing the Silver Age incarnations of The Flash, Green Lantern, and The Atom and other noteworthy characters like Rip Hunter, The Creeper and the Challengers of the Unknown as well as featuring the very first comic adaptation of a James Bond film.
- World's Finest (1941), which is most famous today for being the book where Batman and Superman would team up for the first time.
- Most Marvel Comics titles published in the 1950s were Speculative Fiction, crime, or horror anthologies. Several books such as Uncanny Tales, World of Mystery, World of Suspense, World of Fantasy, Mystery, and Menace didn't make it past the end of the decade. Other titles were better remembered due to later spinning off or being rebranded as superhero titles the following decade when the genre was successfully revived. These include:
- Amazing Adventures, later Amazing (Adult) Fantasy (spun off Spider-Man). Revived briefly in the 70's as a super-hero and sci-fi adventure book, featuring characters like the Black Widow, The Inhumans, The Beast, and Killraven.
- Tales of Suspense (rebranded as Captain America while also spinning off Iron Man)
- Tales to Astonish (rebranded as the Hulk; also featured Sub-Mariner and introduced Ant-Man and The Wasp)
- Journey into Mystery (rebranded as Thor)
- Strange Tales (rebranded as Doctor Strange, while also mixing in Horror fiction with Brother Voodoo and Spy fiction with Nick Fury)
- Marvel Fanfare (Superhero)
- House of Mystery, which started out as a Horror comic, switched genres to Speculative Fiction and Mystery Fiction in the mid-50's due to backlash against horror comics and the introduction of the Comics Code, added in Superhero fiction during the Silver Age, and returned to a horror setting in the 70's.
- Flash Comics, which introduced The Flash, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, and Black Canary.
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Films — Live-Action
- Black Sabbath (Horror)
- California Suite (Comedy)
- Cat's Eye (Horror)
- Creepshow (Black Comedy Horror)
- Cloverfield
- Dead of Night (Horror)
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (Horror)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (Comedy)
- Flesh And Fantasy (Supernatural Drama)
- Four Rooms (Black Comedy)
- From Beyond the Grave (Horror)
- Halloween III: Season of the Witch was an attempt to turn the Halloween movies into an anthology horror film series. Didn't take, mainly because the movie was poorly received.
- Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashinote / Scary True Stories (Horror)
- (Noroi Shiryō / Mystery Taiken Zone:) Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashinote / Curse, Death & Spirit (Horror), 1999 Spiritual Successor to the 1992 TV series. Unrelated to the 1991 films and/or the 1999 TV series of the same name.
- Honto ni Atta! Kowai Video (Found Footage Horror)
- Hontou ni Atta Kowai Hanashinote (Horror), Mockbuster spin-off to the Honto ni Atta! Kowai Video series.
- Horrific (Horror)
- The House That Dripped Blood (Horror)
- How Funny Can Sex Be? (comedy/erotic)
- The Illustrated Man (Speculative Fiction)
- Invitation to the Dance (Dance Musical)
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (Comedy)
- The Mortuary Collection (Horror)
- Nightmare Cinema (Horror)
- Night Train to Terror (Horror)
- Nite Tales: The Movie (Horror)
- Plaza Suite (Comedy)
- The Red Violin (Drama)
- Tales from the Crypt (Horror)
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (Horror)
- Tales from the Hood (Horror)
- Tales of Halloween (Horror Comedy)
- Tales Of Manhattan (Drama)
- Tales of Terror (Horror)
- The Theatre Bizarre (Horror)
- Torture Garden (Horror)
- Trick 'r Treat (Horror)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship (Wuxia martial arts)
- Trilogy of Terror (Horror)
- Twice-Told Tales (Horror)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (Speculative Fiction)
- The Uncanny (Horror)
- Vault of Horror (Horror), the sequel to Tales from the Crypt
- V/H/S (2012) (Horror)
- XX (Horror)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (Drama)
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Romantic Comedy)
Literature
Too many to count. The genre anthology predated the horror and sci-fi genres. The first publication venues for either of them was genre magazines, and the first hardcovers those stories would grace were collected together as a series of unrelated short stories.
- 18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories: Eighteen of the best Science Fiction authors ever, with each one presenting the work they think is their best work to date.
- 50 Short Science Fiction Tales: Fifty Science Fiction tales, edited by Isaac Asimov and Groff Conklin.
- 6 Decades: The Best of Analog: Science Fiction
- Alternate Kennedys: Alternate History, but with the twist of all the stories being about the Kennedy family.
- Approaches to Science Fiction: Science Fiction
- And the Dying is Easy (Signet; 2001): Mystery; collects 20 short stories (including the first in the Chocoholic Mysteries series) with a "sleuth on vacation" theme.
- The Arbor House Treasury: A series of Anthologies published by Arbor House, each with a specific theme/genre.
- The Arbor House Treasury of Nobel Prize Winners: English-language authors who had won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Masters of Horror and the Supernatural: The Great Tales: Horror
- Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century: Anthology of Science Fiction stories between the years of 1947 and 1976, most of which are are Novelette or longer.
- Great Tales of Science Fiction: Thirty-seven Science Fiction stories.
- Worlds Imagined: In addition to being focused on Science Fiction, the stories in this anthology are all at least Novelette size in length.
- As Tomorrow Becomes Today: Thirty Science Fiction stories.
- The Best From Fantasy And Science Fiction: Speculative Fiction
- The Best Science Fiction: 1949: Twelve Science Fiction stories (both Short Story and Novelette) from the previous year of Pulp Magazines (1948) are collected into a single hardcover volume.
- The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories: Twelve Science Fiction stories by Isaac Asimov
- The Bloody Chamber: Ten dark Fairy Tale retellings by Angela Carter, usually with a heavy Gothic Horror influence (although "The Courtship of Mr Lyon" is a lighter fantasy romance story, while "Puss-In-Boots" is a Black Comedy; both are still based on fairy tales)
- Bludgeon Tools: Splatter Horror
- The Book of Dragons: Twenty-nine Fantasy and Science Fantasy stories and poems, each focusing specifically on dragons.
- Joseph Payne Brennan:
- Chicks in Chainmail: Fantasy
- Classic Singapore Horror Stories, a 4-issue Genre Mashup series from the early 90s, by ex-poet and horror writer Damien Sin, which as the name implies, reflects the true side in the darkest parts of Singapore people never saw.
- The Coming of the Robots: Ten Science Fiction stories.
- The Complete Robot: This collection of Science Fiction by Dr Asimov contains thirty-one stories about robots of various types. These robots range from plot devices to create a Puzzle Thriller, to deeply emotional and well-rounded protagonists.
- Computer Crimes and Capers: The ten stories collected here are all Science Fiction, because they all involve different computers.
- Connoisseur's Science Fiction: Ten Science Fiction stories.
- Dangerous Visions: Science Fiction
- Dark Gods
- Das Zeitfahrrad: A German collection of Science Fiction short stories.
- Dead Man's Hand (Anthology): Weird West
- Demonic Household: Horror
- Earth is Room Enough: Seventeen Science Fiction stories.
- Exemplary Women Of Early China: Folktales about historically significant Chinese women.
- Fantastic Creatures: Speculative Fiction.
- Fearless Girls Wise Women And Beloved Sisters: A multicultural collection of fairytales about heroines.
- First Step Outward: Thirteen Science Fiction stories in a timeline.
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights: Horror
- The Future: Can We Shape It?: Nine Science Fiction stories, edited by William F Goodykoontz.
- Goosebumps: A Horror anthology where each book is a self-contained story.
- The Great SF Stories: A 26-volume series anthologizing many of the most significant stories in Science Fiction each year. Edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H Greenburg (and Robert Silverberg).
- Isaac Asimov Presents: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1939: Twenty Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1939, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: Great Science Fiction Stories of 1940: Sixteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1940, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 3 (1941): Seventeen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1941, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 4 (1942): Thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1942, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 5 (1943): Twelve Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1943, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 6 (1944): Thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1944, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 7 (1945): Fourteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1945, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 8 (1946): Sixteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1946, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 9 (1947): Fourteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1947, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 10 (1948): Sixteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1948, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 11 (1949): Fifteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1949, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 12 (1950): Eighteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1950, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 13 (1951): Fifteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1951, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 14 (1952): Nineteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1952, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 15 (1953): Seventeen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1953, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 16 (1954): Seventeen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1954, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 17 (1955): Fourteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1955, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 18 (1956): Fifteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1956, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 19 (1957): Fifteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1957, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 20 (1958): Twelve Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1958, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 21 (1959): Fourteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1959, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 22 (1960): Eleven Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1960, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 23 (1961): Thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1961, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 24 (1962): Thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1962, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 25 (1963): Thirteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1963, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Robert Silverberg Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories (1964): Fifteen Science Fiction stories that were first published in 1964, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Harda Horda: Fantasy short stories by Polish female authors.
- * Harde Baśnie: Fractured Fairy Tales and genre exercises by the same authors
- Haunted (2005): (Horror) Seventeen writers trapped together tell highly dramatized versions of their own life stories.
- Haunting Christmas Tales: An assortment of Christmas ghost stories.
- Histoires de Robots (Science Fiction)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Isekai: Stories from six fantasy authors who "reveal" how their works were secretly inspired by their own trips to another world. Part of the larger (but untranslated) SAKKA KEIHANnote series of Japanese-language anthologies.
- Human? (1954): Fifteen Speculative Fiction stories focused on what it means, exactly, to be human.
- In Dreams Awake: Three eras of trends in Science Fiction; "The Beginnings", "The Golden Age", and "New Directions".
- Isaac Asimovs Magical Worlds Of Fantasy: A 12-volume series of Fantasy anthologies, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G Waugh.
- Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction: A ten-volume book series spanning 1983-1990 much in the same vein as the above. Asimov once again worked with Greenberg and Waugh as his editors.
- Jackalope Wives and Other Stories: Fantasy
- Journeys in Science Fiction: An anthology of eighteen stories and over 600 pages.
- Kensington Books has released ten themed anthologies between 2007 and 2022, collecting three novellas per book from a total of nine different Cozy Mystery series (alphabetically by author — Maddie Day's Country Store Mysteries, Peggy Ehrhart's Knit And Nibble Mysteries, Alex Erickson's Bookstore Cafe Mysteries, Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen Mysteries, Lee Hollis's Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mysteries, Laura Levine's Jaine Austen Mysteries, Leslie Meier's Lucy Stone Mysteries, Carlene O'Connor's Irish Village Mysteries and Barbara Ross's Maine Clambake Mysteries).
- Stephen King:
- Living Adjacent: That wasn't in the Movies!: An anthology of unconventional zombie stories.
- Living Dead Series:
- Book of the Dead (1989): An anthology of Zombie Apocalypse stories that take place in George A. Romero's Living Dead setting.
- Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology: An anthology of Zombie Apocalypse stories that occur after Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Diary of the Dead but before the other Living Dead films.
- Longsummer Nights: An LGBTQ+ paranormal romance anthology.
- The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Mostly sci-fi, some fantasy or horror stories about mad scientists.
- Mind to Mind: Nine Science Fiction stories about Telepathy and other Psychic Powers.
- Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction: An anthology of twenty-one Science Fiction stories.
- My Best Science Fiction Story: An anthology of twenty-five Science Fiction stories.
- Nightfall and Other Stories: Twenty Science Fiction stories.
- The Nightmare Room: Horror
- Nine Tomorrows: Nine Science Fiction stories (and two poems about writing).
- Operation Future: Nineteen Science Fiction stories, mostly from the 1950s.
- Other Covenants: 34 Alternate History short stories, novellas, and poems, all with Jewish themes.
- Out of This World: Each volume contains 6 to 10 Science Fiction stories, all of short lengths, such as Short Story, Novella, and Novelette.
- Paperbacks from Hell: Horror
- Philosophy and Science Fiction: A Non-Fiction philosophy textbook with seventeen Science Fiction stories as a reference.
- Possible Tomorrows: Five Science Fiction stories.
- The Rest of the Robots: Ten Science Fiction stories by Isaac Asimov.
- Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers
- Rocket Science: 17 hard sci-fi stories, with five non-fiction essays about space exploration thrown in as well.
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
- School and Society Through Science Fiction: 21 short fiction tales and five Non-Fiction, with a focus on how the genre of Science Fiction makes predictions about the way society will educate people in the future.
- Science-Fiction 101: Short fiction stories where each story is followed by an essay to teach a principle about writing Science Fiction.
- Science Fiction Favorites: Audiobook of Isaac Asimov reading ten of his Science Fiction stories.
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One: The Science Fiction Writers of America (later changed to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) is an organization of published authors in the Speculative Fiction field. From amoung their stories, twenty-six were chosen to represent the best stories they had to offer.
- A Science Fiction Omnibus: Three Science Fiction anthologies by Penguin publishing house, an Omnibus of the previous three, and a remake of the omnibus that removes some stories and adds others.
- Science Fiction Special: Forty-three volumes reprinting a vast collection of Science Fiction.
- Science Fiction Stories: Twenty-one Science Fiction Short Stories.
- Science Fiction Verhalen: A six-volume series adapting Science Fiction stories into German.
- S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Eighteen Science Fiction stories, ranging in length from Short Story to Novelette.
- Silver Scream
- Skylark Science Fiction Stories: An anthology of Science Fiction edited by Jill Bennett.
- Space Movies: Two Science Fiction anthologies; movies and television episodes.
- Space Opera 1996: Music-themed Fantasy and Science Fiction stories.
- Starhunters: Three collections of science fiction stories on the theme of hunting and being hunted.
- StarStreak: Stories of Space: A science fiction anthology.
- Strange Planets: Ten Science Fiction stories, published in the UK.
- Sword & Sorceress: 30 volumes of fantasy short stories.
- Tales from the Year Between: Each volume of the anthology is set within a single world, and that setting is fairly clearly tied to a specific genre and generally tends towards Fantasy.
- Tesseract 1: All of the books in this Boxed Set are in the Science Fiction genre.
- Tomorrow, the Stars: Fourteen Science Fiction stories.
- Untravelled Worlds: Thirteen Science Fiction stories.
- The Wall Around the World and Other Science Fiction Stories: Six Science Fiction stories, by editor Susan Morris.
- Westward Weird and Dead Man's Hand: Weird West.
- William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy Read Four Science Fiction Classics
- The Worlds of Science Fiction (1979): Twenty Science Fiction stories, collected by by editors Theodore W Hipple and Robert G Wright.
- The World Treasury of Science Fiction: Fifty Science Fiction stories, chosen by editor David G Hatwell.
Live-Action TV
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Crime and Punishment)
- Amazing Stories (1985) (Speculative Fiction)
- American Crime Story — a sister show to American Horror Story, about true crime instead of horror.
- American Horror Story (Horror). Could be considered a genre anthology as each season is a self contained story with a start, middle, and end, with few characters/settings in common.
- American Playhouse (Drama)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Horror)
- Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (Horror)
- Black Mirror (Speculative Fiction Drama)
- Channel Zero (Horror)
- Comedy Playhouse (Comedy) (spin offs include Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine).
- Creeped Out (Horror)
- Creepshow (Horror), with a similar premise to the film series of the same name
- Darkroom (Horror), hosted by James Coburn
- Dead Man's Gun (Western). The only recurring element is the eponymous gun.
- Deadtime Stories (Horror)
- Death Valley Days (Western)
- Dimension 404
- Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (Horror Comedy), hosted by Steve Coogan
- The Dread Testaments, a Horror webseries.
- Faerie Tale Theatre (Fantasy), hosted by Shelley Duvall and followed by two spiritual successors: Tall Tales And Legends (Adventure) and Nightmare Classics (Horror)
- Fallen Angels (Film Noir), a series that aired on Showtime in the mid-'90s
- Fargo (Crime and Punishment / Magical Realism); based on the movie of the same name.
- Fear Itself (2008) (Horror; a Spiritual Successor to the below-mentioned Masters of Horror series)
- the fifth estate (CBC)
- The First Lady (Historical Drama)
- Freddy's Nightmares (Horror), anthology in "Crypt" style, hosted by Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The stories dealing with Freddy himself were actually rare, but canonical.
- Feud (Biopic)
- Freaky (Children's Horror)
- General Electric Theater (Drama), hosted by Ronald Reagan
- Genius (Biopic)
- George Burns Comedy Week (Comedy)
- Ghost Story (1972) (Horror)
- Ghost Stories (Horror)
- Ghost Stories for Christmas (Horror)
- Girl from Nowhere (Thriller/Psychological Horror)
- Goosebumps (1995) (Horror)
- The Guest Book (Comedy)
- Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Horror)
- Gun (Crime)
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (Drama)
- Hammer House of Horror (Horror)
- The Haunting Hour (Horror)
- The Hitch-Hiker (Mystery Fiction, occasionally Horror)
- (Mystery Taiken Zone / Natsu no Fushigi Mystery:) Hontō ni Atta Kowai Hanashinote (Horror)
- Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashinote / True Horror Stories (Horror), 1999 Spiritual Successor to the 1991 Direct-to-Video series. Unrelated to the 1992 TV series and/or the 1999 films of the same name.
- Hora marcada (Horror)
- The Hunger (1997) (Horror)
- Inside No. 9 (Horror/Black Comedy)
- Kraft Suspense Theatre (Drama)
- Law & Order: True Crime — a true crime series unlike other Law & Order shows with each season focusing on a different case
- Lo que la gente cuenta (Horror)
- Love, American Style (Romantic Comedy)
- Manhunt (Crime and Punishment/Police Procedural)
- Masterpiece (Drama)
- Masters of Horror (Horror), with each entry made by an acclaimed horror director
- Masters of Science Fiction (Speculative Fiction), a spin-off of Masters of Horror
- Metal Hurlant Chronicles (Speculative Fiction)
- The Millionaire (1955) (Drama)
- Miracle Workers (Comedy)
- Modern Love (Romantic Comedy)
- Monster (True Crime)
- Monsterland (Horror)
- Monsters (1988) (Horror)
- Murder in Mind (Crime And Punishment)
- Murder Most Horrid (Parodying Crime and Punishment Tropes) (Hosted by and starring Dawn French)
- Night Gallery (Horror/Speculative Fiction)
- Nightmare Cafe (Horror)
- Nightmare Classics (Horror), a Spiritual Successor to Faerie Tale Theatre
- The Nightmare Room (Horror)
- Night Visions (Horror)
- One Step Beyond (Speculative Fiction)
- The Outer Limits (1963) (Speculative Fiction)
- Out of the Unknown: Each episode is a different Science Fiction story. For the first three seasons, they were mostly live-action adaptations of existing short fiction stories. The fourth season was mostly original stories.
- Out of this World (1962): Each "play" is a different Science Fiction story, mostly live-action adaptations of existing short fiction stories.
- Paul Merton In Galton And Simpson's... (Comedy staring Paul Merton, updated scripts from Comedy Playhouse and Hancock's Half Hour).
- Performance (Theatrical Productions)
- Perversions Of Science (Speculative Fiction; A Spiritual Successor to Tales from the Crypt which was also based off EC Comics)
- Philco Television Playhouse/Goodyear Television Playhouse/Alcoa Hour (Drama) The name changed to reflect the sponsoring company. From 1948 to 1951, Philco was the sole sponsor. From 1951 to the spring of 1955, Philco and Goodyear alternated weeks as sponsor and the show was titled accordingly. At the end of the 1954-55 season, Philco dropped out as sponsor and Alcoa stepped in. Alcoa and Goodyear continued alternating sponsorship until 1957. The productions were otherwise the same.
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (Speculative Fiction based on Philip K. Dick works)
- Playhouse 90 (Drama)
- Play for Today (Drama)
- The Play On One (Drama)
- Police Story 1952 (Cop Show)
- Ray Bradbury Theater (Speculative Fiction)
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (Mystery)
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (Mystery Fiction)
- Science Fiction Theater (Speculative Fiction)
- Screen Play BBC (Drama)
- Screen Two (Drama)
- Screen One (Drama)
- Seven of One (Comedy) (Starring Ronnie Barker, Porridge and Open All Hours were spun off from this series).
- Slasher (Horror), which actually uses the seasonal anthology format like American Horror Story.
- Studio One (Drama)
- Super Pumped (Biopic)
- Tales from the Crypt (Horror)
- Tales from the Darkside (Horror)
- Tales of Tomorrow (Speculative Fiction)
- Tales of the Unexpected (Various, usually Black Comedy with a Twist Ending. Introduced by their author, Roald Dahl)
- Tales of the Walking Dead (Horror)
- Tall Tales And Legends (Adventure), a Spiritual Successor to Faerie Tale Theatre
- The Terror was originally a standalone miniseries based on the book of the same name, but it received a follow-up series The Terror: Infamy, which has no plot connection, turning the collection into a genre anthology of supernatural horror stories set during real historical events.
- Thriller aka Boris Karloff's Thriller (Horror/Crime and Punishment)
- Thriller is a British series of one-off feature-length dramas, created and either scripted or based on stories by Brian Clemens. Episodes were repackaged for US broadcast as separate TV movies.
- Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories (horror-comedy)
- True Detective (Police Procedural)
- Trust (Biopic)
- The Twilight Zone (1959) (Speculative Fiction)
- Two Sentence Horror Stories (Horror)
- Undressed (MTV Soap Opera-esque show focusing on the love and sex lives of young adults)
- The Veil (Horror)
- The Wednesday Play (Drama)
- Whodunnit? (UK) (Mystery Fiction)
- Yonimo Kimiyona Monogatari / Tales of the Unsual (Horror)
Magazines
Podcasts
- The Books of Thoth
- Earbud Theater
- Hero Club
- The NoSleep Podcast (Horror)
- Pseudopod (Horror)
- Twilight Histories
- We're Not Meant to Know (Horror)
Radio
- 2000 Plus (Speculative Fiction)
- Academy Award Theater (Drama)
- The Campbell Playhouse (Drama)
- Cavalcade Of America (Drama)
- CBS Radio Mystery Theater (Mystery/Horror/Crime and Punishment/Thriller)
- CBS Radio Workshop (Drama)
- Dead Pilots Society TV Comedy pilots that were never filmed
- Dimension X (Speculative Fiction)
- Earplay (Drama)
- Escape (Adventure/Horror/Crime and Punishment)
- Inner Sanctum Mysteries (Horror)
- Lights Out (Horror)
- Lux Radio Theater (Drama)
- The Mercury Theatre on the Air (Drama) - with Orson Welles
- The Mysterious Traveler (Crime and Punishment/Mystery/Thriller)
- Nightfall (Horror)
- NPR Playhouse (Drama)
- Quiet, Please (Horror)
- The Screen Guild Theater (Drama)
- Suspense (Horror/Crime and Punishment/Mystery/Thriller)
- The Whistler (Crime and Punishment/Mystery/Thriller)
- X Minus One (Speculative Fiction)
Video Games
- The Dark Pictures Anthology (Horror) - A series developed by Supermassive Games as a successor to their Until Dawn.
- Dread X Collection (Horror)
- Fears to Fathom (Horror) - All of the episodes are self-contained horror stories with no shared characters; the main theme found in each episode is that the stories are ostensibly true tales of people who narrowly survived horrifying encounters.
- Juggernaut (Horror) - A 1998 adventure game where you play as a man going to different "microcosmos" to rescue his demon-possessed girlfriend. Each one is its own short horror story.
- Midnight Scenes (Horror)
- Stories Untold (Horror)
Web Animation
- Don't Walk Home Alone After Dark (Horror)
- Nightmare Tales (Horror)
Web Video
Western Animation
- Infinity Train (Animated Sci-Fi; combination of self-contained seasons with different protagonists and a Myth Arc concerning recurring supporting characters and the setting itself)
- Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire (Animated afrofuturist sci-fi)
- Love, Death & Robots: (a collection of animated Sci-Fi shorts)