10 Amazing Horror TV Shows With Soul Destroying Endings

10. Penny Dreadful

This entry needs a bit of an explanation as to why it’s here, so hear your writer out.

Penny Dreadful was a bloody homage to gothic literature and its icons, including Dorian Grey, Victor Frankenstein and Doctor Jekyll. Playing these fabled characters was a fantastic cast that included Eva Green, the late Helen McCrory, Simon Russell Beale and Timothy Dalton. It was well loved, and well received by critics. However, many were left feeling utterly dejected after the ending.

The final season, which aired in 2016 was, for the most part, as excellent as the previous two, with the characters flung across the globe and leaving Green’s character Vanessa to fend for herself whilst being unknowingly courted by Dracula. Given that Vanessa spent much of the show being tormented, many expected that a happy ending wasn’t on the cards for her. But being unceremoniously shot by the man who swore he would always protect her? Huh?!?!?!?!?!

It was quite nice to see the other characters, including Frankenstein’s Creature, lovingly say goodbye, it still felt like an abrupt and soul-destroyingly frustrating end to a series that had previously enthralled viewers.

Loyal fans felt destroyed, betrayed and thoroughly pissed off by the ending of Penny Dreadful, but the rest of the show still remains to be one of the best gothic horror shows on television.