TV series
This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's titular podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawn our darkest nightmares. Blending reenactments, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends – such as vampires, werewolves and body snatchers – are rooted in truth.
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Checked Sep 2, 2026
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This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's titular podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawn our darkest nightmares. Blending reenactments, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends – such as vampires, werewolves and body snatchers – are rooted in truth.
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Episode 1
Two shunned Irish immigrants in Scotland start off as grave robbers to sell the dead to doctors, but decide that creating their own inventory is much easier, and become the most prolific mass-murdering duo in history.
Directed by Christoph SchreweWritten by Carlos FogliaGuest stars Emmett J. Scanlan, Emmet Byrne, Doug Bradley, Niall Wright, Stuart Bowman, Andrea Gordon, Hannah Morrison, Booda
Episode 2
The aging Countess of Blood, running out of virginal peasants to drain of their youthful essence, brings in a bright-eyed noble to start a new cycle of torture and murder.
Directed by Alice TroughtonWritten by Ashley HalloranGuest stars Maimie McCoy, Rosalind Eleazar, Ella Hunt, Anna Kadeřávková, Michaela Petriláková, Zoran Kovačevič, Jiří Wohanka, Markéta Gajdošová
Episode 3
In the German hinterlands, between World Wars, a family goes to bed, not knowing that their killer has been living in the walls and attics of their home like a ghost, watching, waiting for his chance to strike, in one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time.
Directed by Christoph SchreweWritten by Jose MolinaGuest stars Jürgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann, Vladimir Burlakov, Susanne Wuest, Karoline Eichhorn, Miriam Pundy, Hana Frejková, Merlin Leonhardt
Episode 4
As two clockmakers race against the curse of the Orloj, a curse that has already driven the city of Prague to madness and death with the Black Plague, these brothers will discover the price of trying to change history.
Directed by Christoph SchreweWritten by Ashley MillerGuest stars Steven Berkoff, Numan Acar, Elie Haddad, Ian Reddington, Tomáš Merkl
Episode 5
A young woman, raised in a town controlled by a religious zealot, must rectify a fatal mistake before a ravenous mob hangs the Old Witch, Mary Webster, in this story set just 11 years before and 100 miles from Salem, Massachusetts.
Directed by Alice TroughtonWritten by Alyssa ClarkGuest stars Paula Malcomson, Hebe Beardsall, Paul Rhys, Rebecca Hanssen, George Watkins, Will Tudor, Jim High, Abigail Rice
Episode 6
In 1922, only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space and conjure a demon. By 1952, he had done both. But all he cared about was the Scarlet Woman he had both summoned, and lost, Marjorie Cameron.
Directed by Alice TroughtonWritten by Sean CrouchGuest stars Joshua Bowman, Alicia Witt, Ian Gelder, Brian Caspe, Ryan Sampson, Issy Stewart, Christian Howlings, Andrea Šebek Procházková
Episode information updated Sep 16, 2026
Aaron MahnkeNarrator
Campbell ScottGeorge Brown
Jason DavisHarold Metcalf
Caroline ArapoglouLily Brown
Benjamin KeepersSamuel Wilkins
Steve CoulterWilliam Rose
Connor HammondEdwin Brown
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