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Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
Year: 1992
Episodes: The Tale of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Tale of the Pinball Wizard, The Tale of the Dead Man’s Float, The Tale of the Vacant Lot
Synopsis: When the moon is out, the kids of ‘The Midnight Society’ meet out in the woods to swap scary stories around the campfire.
EMN Notes: This, Scooby Doo, and this one game show on Nickelodeon called ‘Scaredy Camp’ were super nostalgic for me in terms of things from my childhood that probably got me into horror. It was always the vague, kind of hard to follow nightmare episodes of this I remember the most, but this one I picked these ones out from a list of the best. It’s honestly still pretty good. They’re clearly toned down, and nobody dies in them, but it’s a good way to dip your toes into TV-Y7 or PG horror. I really love the framing device as well. It never really feels like the show is talking down to you, and I trust that they could have done a serious, actual horror. It just happened that they were just in charge of making it a kid’s show, so they made it about as scary as they could for kids.


Ash vs. Evil Dead
Year: 2015
Synopsis: A still pathetic Ash who hasn’t done anything of note in 30 years takes up the chainsaw and boomstick again when the creatures of the Necronomicon begin to cause havoc in the town.
EMN Notes: I waited until this show ended to binge it, and after seeing the pilot, I can say for sure The Evil Dead is back. We’re starting with the one first season on EMN, and seeing where we go from there.


Beetlejuice
Year: 1989
Synopsis: When the gothic teen, Lydia, is looking for something fun to do she summons a mischievous spirit by saying his name three times… Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. BEETLEJUICE!
EMN Notes: Watching the movie for the first time last year made me realize that I’m pretty sure this show was reworked. I’m guessing the original idea picked up where the movie left off with the couple from the movie still being Lydia’s ghost friends, and Beetlejuice getting in the way. As of the finished show, they basically combined them so Lydia’s ghost friend is now also Beetlejuice. I watched this as a kid, but I mostly remember the opening. The season we have on is an older one, though, so it’s a little different. It’s honestly a pretty standard gross out 80’s/90’s cartoon, not super worth revisiting, but I appreciate the designs.


Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Year: 2013
Episodes: Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, Halloween IV, HalloVeen
Synopsis: In this sitcom, the detectives of the 99th precinct in Brooklyn tackle criminals, cases, and struggle with their day to day lives.
EMN Notes: If you’ve never seen it before, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a Michael Shur show, from the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place. It nails non sequitur, incredible smart and dumb humor, pop culture jokes, and political humor all very well. The Halloween episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine are all a highlight from their respective seasons. It’s an annual Halloween heist that is not really horror, and more just a regular comedy with Halloween decorations in the background, and sometimes they’re wearing costumes. They work well enough, but it’s more or less an excuse to have some funny episodes to enjoy in between films.


Castlevania
Year: 2017
Synopsis: The world has been overrun with demons lead by the vampire, Count Dracula, ever since humans viciously murdered his human wife. Together the last living member of the vampire hunting Belmont clan, a powerful mage, and Dracula’s half-human son must team up to bring him down.
EMN Notes: I haven’t touched this show since Season 2, but I really enjoyed how that ended a lot, so it’s been hard to imagine it continuing past that point. Up to the point I was at, it built off of a lot of pre-established lore, mostly Castlevania III, and used it to create the somewhat original narrative. I think my only problems I had were that the last two seasons decided to continue with its own story instead of trying to adapt more Castlevania games, and they never touched Grant yet they had a pirate/viking-like original character anyways, so I don’t really understand what the show’s hang up was with him. Overall, it’s a solid little entry into an iconic Halloween video game franchise, and made me wish they would bring it back.


Count Duckula
Year: 1988
Episodes: Down Under Duckula, The Ghost of McCastle McDuckula, Hunchbudgie of Notre Dame
Synopsis: Upon resurrection, the evil Count Duckula of the traveling Castle Duckula was accidentally reincarnated as a vegetarian when the ritual to summon him used ketchup instead of blood. Without an appetite for blood, he looks only to be an entertainer.
EMN Notes: I can’t tell you why we decided to add this besides we both knew it existed, and wanted to give it a shot. Erin knew that she loved Danger Mouse, and we knew this was a spin-off of that, so we trusted it. It’s actually pretty funny. I wouldn’t mind adding more one year. It’s nonsensical shenanigans, but everything is horror themed. Some of the humor is even a little morbid, so it helped that it wan’t just puns. It got a thumbs up from me, at least.


Courage the Cowardly Dog
Year: 1999
Synopsis: A dog who lives with an elderly couple out in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas constantly risks life and limb to protect himself and his owners from supernatural threats.
EMN Notes: I couldn’t help but include my favorite episodes of this show. I loved this show so much growing up. Even looking back now, I’m happy to see how interesting the show is now. It has a lot of metaphors, it has this classic cartoon feel where they barely had to record any voice lines for it, and it feels like a little bit of an art project. They use a ton of different techniques, even ones purposely avant-garde and uncanny valley to do the monsters. It genuinely frightened me at one point as a kid, but I would still watch every time it was on, because I was so fascinated by it. Even when I thought I hated horror, this was one very clear horror cartoon I loved.


Disney’s House of Mouse
Year: 2001
Synopsis: At a dinner theater ran by Mickey Mouse, and staffed by his best friends, various Disney characters eat together and watch Disney shorts both new and old.
EMN Notes: I grew to appreciate this show a lot because it would be on when I was spending the days at home, and I have nostalgia for Disney and love for the shorts. I always thought this was a pretty inventive concept. It’s a kid’s show, but it’s charming to me in the same way Peanuts is, and there’s an occasional joke that sneaks up on me. Really though, this one is more or less a way to include some old Mickey cartoons, some kind of funny new cartoons, and sometimes Jafar and Ursula show up and antagonize Goofy. Plus the original musical number written for this one is kind of a banger.


Extreme Ghostbusters
Year: 1997
Synopsis: Four college students studying under original Ghostbuster Egon Spengler are recruited to help him take down various ghost threats around New York.
EMN Notes: I’m honestly not in love with Ghostbusters as much as some people, but this one is pretty damn good. I know I watched this as a kid, but I can’t recall how, as apparently it only aired on a syndicated block that I don’t remember literally any other show from. It wasn’t anything I watched religiously, but I enjoyed what I saw. For years, you could only get the series in abysmal quality, and it has never gotten a DVD release in North America, but of all things the official Ghostbusters Youtube has been posting all the episodes and then removing them from time to time. Why they don’t just cut a deal with Tubi or something for the whole show, I couldn’t tell you. I think I appreciate this show more now, though. They basically handed it off to the people who made Men in Black: The Series, a show I also loved as a kid, and they really didn’t pull any punches with this one. In The Real Ghostbusters, maybe the ghosts will torment people, but their damage is mostly property damage. In Extreme Ghostbusters, a ghost clown will just openly kill a person in the opening. It’s nothing that I don’t see in Super Sentai, but it’s shocking for an American kid’s cartoon. The new cast is honestly great, I honestly prefer it over the original Ghostbuster’s dynamic, but I appreciate Egon, Janine, and Slimer to help work the passing of the torch with this. It’s a very underrated series, but it at least got a fair run of 40 episodes before getting cancelled, and they couldn’t be a more perfect addition for this channel.


Goosebumps
Year: 1995
Synopsis: Based on the popular children’s horror book series by R.L. Stine, this series looks to adapt a new story every episode.
EMN Notes: This one was completely downloaded last year, and I forgot to add any of them. Whoops. This year, though, we have a lot more room, and plenty of space for these cheesy adaptions of cheesy stories. I’m now dead. I said cheese, and now I’m dead.


Ghost Stories
Year: 2000
Synopsis: A group of classmates use one of their deceased mother’s notes on the supernatural in order to stop the ghosts around their school, or something.
EMN Notes: This one is going to be short because Erin wrapped this up very well in her description for it on regular EMN, but this was a natural add from EMN to this. I will still quote the less offensive bits in this show from time to time. It’s someone making a semi-problematic shitpost of a dub to a horror series, but it’s still a supernatural horror anime. I think Erin mentions this in her description of it on EMN, but the comedy works to sort of complete the show in a way. It actually makes the tense moments work because they become it shifts the tone a bit more to surprise you when they did get something to work. The episode with Bloodstained Lake (AAAA) had me dying the first time I saw it.


Gravity Falls
Year: 2012
Episodes: Summerween
Synopsis: Two twins spend the summer at their uncle’s tourist trap, where they run into supernatural creatures that all seem to be well documented in one of three mysterious journals.
EMN Notes: I’ve loved this cartoon since only the first three episodes were out and I happened to catch them while babysitting my nieces and nephews. It’s a genuinely funny, smart, and well animated show with great characters. In all honesty, this show has enough spooky things that I could probably justify more episodes, but I didn’t want to take away from the Mysteries channel. Still, this one was a perfect and memorable recent Halloween special I really liked. In this, the town has an annual Halloween-like event in the summer that still involves trick-or-treating, where a smiley-faced monster threatens Dipper, Mabel, and their friends if they don’t give him five hundred pieces of candy by Midnight. It’s a fun episode, and the monster as well as the twist with him is great.


Hellsing
Year: 2001
Synopsis: The Hellsing Organization looks to save England from the supernatural and nazis with their smoking gun, a vampire who proclaimed his loyalty to the family that started the organization.
EMN Notes: Erin is the one who introduced me to all of Hellsing, but I’ve seen Hellsing Ultimate by the time Horror rolled around. While I would say I prefer it overall, The weird colors, the slapping theme song, and most importantly, the fact it goes completely original but still good after the first three episodes makes me glad we can give the original anime a spot on one of our channels. I really love the characters and their looks in Hellsing, honestly. It’s just cool. My favorite is easily Integra. Everything about her is just bad ass.


King of the Hill
Year: 1997
Episodes: Hilloween, Pigmalion
Synopsis: In the heart of Arlen, Texas lives the mild-mannered Hank Hill who enjoys drinking beer, taking care of his lawn, and propane. Every day, he looks to have an honest living taking care of his wife, Peggy, and teach his boy, Bobby, how to be a man.
EMN Notes: I hadn’t actually watched this show properly until months before we set up EMN. Now I would go as far as to call it one of my favorite adult cartoons. It’s genuinely a very smart show with a lot of great dry, ironic humor. Not to mention its surprisingly very tolerant with strong morals. Pigmalion is a weird one, because it actually goes for a horror-like feel with an overall theme, but I think it’s interesting. Hilloween is a perfect special, though. It’s a very hilarious and memorable episode for me. Hank getting progressively more pissed as one person tries to vilify Halloween gets some hard laughs out of me.


Mythbusters
Year: 2012
Episodes: Fright Night
Synopsis: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, two special effects experts, and their crew, look into various myths, rumors, and old wives’ tales to test how they would work in practice, and see if they are real.
EMN Notes: I don’t know who can hate Mythbusters. It was peak cable television to binge for anyone who had it in the early 00s to mid 2010s. The cast is fun, the editing is relaxing, and as for this episode, I really love how it doesn’t just use the Halloween aspect as an excuse for one or two myths. They really embrace the fun of Halloween for this. You get costumes, fun spooky myths, and corny editing and jokes. It’s everything you’d want at the bottom of your television trick or treat bag. That’s why this show was great. It doesn’t try and be sophisticated or talk down to anyone who believes in stuff like this. It’s just fun and just puts everything to the test.


Pawn Stars
Year: 2011
Episodes: Rick or Treat
Synopsis: Pawn broker Rick Harrison, his son, his dad, and his son’s best friend run the day to day of their Las Vegas pawn shop, where people from around the world go to get various treasures appraised.
EMN Notes: Pawn Stars is a very dumb show, but it’s my guilty pleasure. Sometimes I just want to see people shove cool things in my face for an hour, even if it’s very obviously scripted. They don’t try and deny it, either. Half the show is built around sitcom-like plot segments. This is about as Halloween as you can get an episode of Pawn Stars. It revolves around a costume contest, and the things appraised includes stuff like vampire killing kits and paranormal investigation equipment. It’s silly, but it’s harmless.


Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Year: 1969
Synopsis: A group of teen sleuths and their talking dog drive around solving mysteries.
EMN Notes: Scooby is just a nostalgic thing for me. It’s a guilty pleasure. Yes, they’re kind of repetitive, stupid, and some episodes haven’t aged well, but it’s a cute and fun series. I think we can both agree that we like Mystery Incorporated and A Pup Named Scooby Doo more, personally, but we stuck to just this because it’s classic, it doesn’t have a whole lot of episodes, and it has some stupid parts to it, too, so I think you’l get a wider variety of reactions out of the original series.


Tales From The Crypt
Year: 1989
Synopsis: In this adaptation of the infamous horror comic series, The Cryptkeeper shares a shocking tale of terror every week.
EMN Notes: I’m so happy 1982’s Creepshow brought new eyes to the old horror comics and made them fresh, and it’s to thank for this series ever materializing. I first learned about them in a history of comics book I had, that had me fascinated even then. I was so jealous that it was nearly impossible to find this show online or read the original comics. Now it’s at least on DVD. This show sort of has issues with its pay offs, but it has a great look to it, and honestly some pretty shocking and unsettling moments, too. I like how all of them were actually based on real EC Comics stories, too. I wish they were given more liberties, but it warms my heart how much they tried.


The Addams Family
Year: 1964
Synopsis: A family of upper crust macabre crackpots show their love of life, much to the chagrin of every normal person around them.
EMN Notes: While I think that the movie versions of the Addams are great, how this series portrays them is my favorite. They could not be any more strange and obnoxious. Their food is inedible, stuff like a lion wandering the halls is commonplace at their house, and they like all the things that people hate and don’t care for all the things that people like, but they’re all very happy. Too often, I think, people see their love of the macabre and focus a little too much on the sinister aspect. It’s creepy and it’s kooky, but they’re so happy about being creepy and kooky. They all love each other, they are smothering when it comes to being friendly and courteous, and they are hilariously upstanding members of society. This is a black and white sitcom that still holds up amazingly today because it’s just affable and never comes off cruel, just weird. Good weird.


The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Year: 1990
Episodes: Hex and the Single Guy
Synopsis: After getting into a fight, a street punk kid from Philadelphia is sent to live with his well off aunt, uncle, and cousins in Los Angeles.
EMN Notes: This one got on by chance because I caught it one morning on regular EMN while we were building the channel. We were looking for more specials, and this was another easy add. We both love the sitcom, we had the episode already, and this one was funny but had a sinister and supernatural undertone to it.


The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Year: 2001
Episodes: Little Rock of Horrors
Synopsis: After tricking the grim reaper into being their friend forever, a dumb boy and a sadistic young girl use his powers to their advantage.
EMN Notes: I have fairly fond memories of this show, but I didn’t really feel like revisiting it in full. This episode is an exception, however. It’s about 11 minutes and the majority of it is a song by dark cabaret singer Voltaire, who plays a jelly meteor-alien with one eye in the episode. It was my introduction to the artist, and although I don’t know too many of his songs, I love his voice and style of music. It’s weirdly calming. The premise of this one is that a lonely Billy (the dumb boy) gets sweet talked by a singing alien that crashes to earth into bringing everyone Billy knows over to where he is so that he can eat their brains. It’s more or a less a music video for a song created for the episode, and one of the series’ most unique episodes that I remember.


The Nightmare Room
Year: 2001
Episodes: Tangled Web
Synopsis: The Nightmare Room is another horror anthology series aimed at a young audience based loosely on the secondary book series by R.L. Stine.
EMN Notes: This series was a trip. I remember actually watching this one and I was still at an age I was a scaredy cat, but I was more confused than anything after seeing it. Many years later I found this series again when someone posted a clip of the scene in this episode where the actual pro wrestler Sting, in full makeup and attire, growls “I’M GONNA GET YOU” as he chases a screaming Reese from the Malcolm in the Middle. Ever since then, I’ve shared it with as many people who’ve come into contact with me as I could, and Erin and I both find it hilarious. I can’t even lie, that is the only reason this is on this channel. We don’t have any actual good reason this is on horror, it just happens to be from a horror series and it makes us laugh.


The Simpsons
Year: 1989
Episodes: Treehouse of Horror (I-VII)
Synopsis: The series revolves around the lives of the Simpsons, an average, dysfunctional American nuclear family living in the town of Springfield.
EMN Notes: I’ve (regrettably) watched every Treehouse of Horror. I’m about as stereotypical of a Simpsons fan as you can imagine. I love the first eight seasons, enjoyed the ninth and ten season enough, and from there I’ve only seen a few episodes afterwards that can be hit or miss. Treehouse of Horror was once one of my Halloween traditions. It used to be one of the few things I would watch regardless of my enjoyment in the show, but even it got bad. Still, Treehouse of Horrors II, IV, and V especially I would list among the best episodes the series has ever had. I remember crying laughing the first time I saw the segment with Homer and the time machine toaster. At least with the older episodes, they still bring me back.


The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
Year: 1989
Episodes: Count Koopula, Mario Meets Koop-zilla, Koopenstein
Synopsis: Based on the video game series, this series has two Brooklyn plumbers fall into the mushroom kingdom, and with the help of its princess and her retainer they stop the many misdeeds of the evil turtle, King Koopa.
EMN Notes: Yes, this cartoon isn’t amazing, but dammit, it’s fun. I’d argue this series is still one of the most enjoyable cartoons based on a video game. It’s not easy to make a cartoon based on what was literally just the first two Super Mario Bros. games at the time, but the tone and fun of the series is here. There’s nothing too special about these ones. If you’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all, but they are Halloween themed. The Koop-zilla episode is an exception. That one was added by accident, but the original Godzilla was basically a horror film, so it was a happy accident.


The Twilight Zone
Year: 1959
Synopsis: In this anthology, narrator Rod Serling takes us into worlds much like our own. Sci-fi, horror, fantasy, strange occurrences, all of them are found in…The Twilight Zone.
EMN Notes: I LOVE the Twilight Zone. This one was suggested by Erin, and I jumped on it. I’ve loved this show since being exposed to it in a week long marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. While I’ve seen many anthologies, the classic in this case is the best. It covers a wide variety of genres, not necessarily horror, but some of its best stories lean horror or suspense, this was the only choice of a channel to put it on. So many of its stories haunt me to this day, And When the Sky Was Opened, The After Hours, Eye Of The Beholder, One for the Angels, Five Characters In Search of an Exit, so on and so forth. There are far too many amazing episodes to count, and the titles alone are jaw dropping. It feels like it had an all star cast of directors and screenwriters adapting and writing new stories, because it really feels like they could make whatever they could set their mind to. They’ll rarely if ever use an effect that looks fake or ugly. It makes it all feel timeless, and the gold standard for all anthology series after it.


The Venture Bros.
Year: 2012
Episodes: A Very Venture Halloween
Synopsis: Two sheltered teenagers are dragged into adventures by their cranky super scientist father and his ultramasculine bodyguard. All the while, a supervillain dressed as a butterfly swears to take them down.
EMN Notes: The Venture Bros is a peak satire on 70’s and 80’s action cartoons, as well as doubling a great commentary on how Baby Boomers failed to raise Generation X. It’s my personal favorite cartoon created for Adult Swim. I’m nostalgic for it as a show I would stay up later than I should have to watch, but I appreciate it a lot more as an adult. This is about the opposite from the Christmas special, where I think that one can be watched with limited knowledge of the show. This is over four seasons in and there is a lot of callbacks and weird stuff, but you get an introduction to pretty much every major character in the show, as well a solid idea of how the show works, so why the hell not? Ironically, it’s also a perfect set up to one of my favorite episodes the show.