Anime and Manga series that belong to the Horror genre.
For tropes commonly used in these series, see Japanese Media Tropes and Horror Tropes.
- After God
- After School Nightmare
- Ajin
- AKIRA
- Alien Nine
- Ana Satsujin
- Another
- As the Gods Will
- Asura
- Attack on Titan
- Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
- Berserk
- Bibliomania
- Bio-Meat: Nectar
- Biomega
- Black Butler
- Black Paradox
- Blood: The Last Vampire
- Bloody Cross
- Bloody Maiden: Juusanki no Shima
- Blood on the Tracks
- Brynhildr in the Darkness
- Cage of Eden
- Call of the Night
- Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon
- Cat-Eyed Boy
- The Cave Man
- Cells at Work! CODE BLACK
- Ceres, Celestial Legend
- Chainsaw Man
- Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw
- Choujin Gakuen
- Class of Brains
- Claymore
- Corpse Party (Missing Footage and Tortured Souls)
- Creature!
- The Curse of Kazuo Umezu
- Dandadan (also a comedy, but the supernatural aspects frequently veer into horror)
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic
- Danganronpa
- Dark Cat
- Dark Gathering
- Dark Warrior
- Dawn Tsumetai Te
- Deadman Wonderland
- Dead Mount Death Play
- Death Note
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Demon Lord Dante
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- Denjin N
- Devilman
- Devil May Cry: The Animated Series
- D.Gray-Man
- Diabolo
- Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei
- Dissolving Classroom
- Dokuhime
- Dolls Fall
- Dorohedoro
- Doubt
- Dragon Head
- The Dreaming
- Drifting Classroom
- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
- Eko Eko Azarak
- The Elder Sister-like One
- Elfen Lied
- Emerging
- The Enigma of Amigara Fault
- Fate/Zero
- Final Girl (2019)
- Fort of Apocalypse
- Fourteen
- Fragments of Horror
- Franken Fran
- Frankenstein (Junji Ito)
- From the New World
- Fuan no Tane
- Fukushuu Kyoushutsu
- Future Diary
- Gantz
- The Garden of Sinners
- GARO: Vanishing Line
- Genocyber
- Ghost Hunt
- Ghost Stories (though the Gag Dub turned it into more of a Horror Comedy)
- Ghost Story Loop
- Ghost Talker's Daydream
- Gleipnir
- Goblin Slayer
- Goth (Otsuichi)
- Gregory Horror Show
- Green Box
- Gyo
- Hakaba Kitarō
- Hanako and the Terror of Allegory
- Happy Sugar Life
- Hekikai no AiON
- Hell Girl
- Hellsing
- Highschool of the Dead
- High-Rise Invasion
- Hohzuki Island
- Hotarubi no Tomoru Koro ni
- Housing Complex C
- I Am a Hero
- Ibitsu
- Iczer
- Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit
- Ingoshima
- In/Spectre
- Inugami (1996)
- I Said I'd Love You To Death, Didn't I?
- The Island of Giant Insects
- I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die
- Jagaaaaaan
- Jinmen
- Jinzou Shoujo
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection
- Juujika no Rokunin
- Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Kagewani
- Kami no Kodomo
- Karura Mau!
- Kaya-chan Isn't Scary
- Kemonozume
- Key the Metal Idol
- Kichikujima
- King of Thorn
- King's Game
- Knights of Sidonia
- Kowabon
- Kuro
- The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service
- The Laughing Salesman (also a Black Comedy)
- Life is Money
- Liverleaf
- Lord El-Melloi II Case Files
- The Love and Creed of Sae Maki
- Lovesickness
- M3: The Dark Metal
- Made in Abyss
- MADK
- Magical Girl Apocalypse
- Magical Girl Site
- Majinden
- Makaryuudo Demon Hunter
- Maki no Gakyuu Nisshi
- Manhole
- Mantis Woman
- Märchen Crown
- March Story
- Maria no Danzai
- Maryuu Senki
- Me and the Devil Blues
- Mermaid Saga
- Midnight Horror School
- Midnight Occult Civil Servants
- Mieruko-chan
- Mimi's Tales of Terror
- Mnemosyne
- Monkey Peak
- Monkey Circle
- Monkey Peak: The Rock
- Mononoke
- Monster (1994)
- MPD Psycho
- Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Night of the Living Cat
- Nijigahara Holograph
- Nikubami Honegishimi
- Ninja Scroll
- Noah of the Blood Sea
- Now and Then, Here and There
- Otherside Picnic
- Otogi Matsuri
- Panorama of Hell
- Paprika
- Paranoia Agent
- Parasyte
- Perfect Blue
- Pet Shop of Horrors
- Phantom Quest Corp.
- Le Portrait de Petite Cossette
- Popee the Performer
- The Promised Neverland
- Psychic Wars
- Psycho X Past: Ryouki Satsujin Sennyuu Sousa
- PTSD Radio
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- Pumpkin Night
- Pupa
- Real Account
- Re:CREATORS
- Region
- Reiko the Zombie Shop
- Remina
- Requiem from the Darkness
- Resident Evil: Heavenly Island
- Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
- Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire
- Re:Zero
- The Sad Tale of the Principal Post
- Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo
- Satanophany
- Scary Campus College University
- School Days
- School-Live!
- School Mermaid
- Sci-Fi HARRY
- Scumbag Loser
- Sensor
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Shadows House
- Shi ni Aruki
- Shibatarian
- Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi
- Shigahime
- Shiki
- Shoujo Pandora
- Shutendoji
- Sky High
- Sou-Bou-Tei Must Be Destroyed
- Soul Eater
- Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit
- Suicide Club
- The Summer Hikaru Died
- Supernatural
- Talentless Nana
- Teito Monogatari (a.k.a. Doomed Megalopolis)
- Tenrou Sirius the Jaeger
- TerraforMARS
- Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
- This Monster Wants to Eat Me
- Thriller Restaurant
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
- Tokimeki No Ikenie
- Tokyo Ghoul
- Tomie
- Tomodachi × Monster
- Torture Princess: Fremd Torturchen
- Toshi Densetsu
- Underdog
- The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night (from the same creator of the When They Cry series.)
- The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san (technically, though it's Horror Comedy)
- Usotsuki Satsuki wa Shi ga Mieru
- Uzumaki
- Vampire Hunter D
- Vampire Knight
- Vampire Princess Miyu
- Vampire Wars
- Variante
- Voices in the Dark
- Wasurenagumo
- Welcome to Ghost Mansion
- When They Cry
- Wicked City
- Yakumei Satsujinki
- Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
- Yuureitou
- Zanuff the Butcher
- Zekkyou Gakkyuu
- Zetman
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
- Zombie Land Saga