10 Great Horror TV Shows Cancelled Too Soon

10. Harper's Island

Nobody who has seen it will say Harper’s Island was not years ahead of its time. Long before Mike Flanagan got his mitts on pretty much every horror property of his choosing, revolutionizing what we can expect from horror TV, Harper’s Island did something equally as impressive, before CBS shot it dead.

Inspired by the works of Agatha Christie, but packing considerably more blood and brutality than even the pulp novelist’s most boundary-pushing writings, the mystery-slasher series is set on the titular island, where a wedding party ignites the memory of a presumed-dead serial killer and the bloodshed starts all over again. Designed as a standalone story, Harper’s was exciting and dangerous at a time when a lot of TV was not, killing off key characters in gruesome fashion, plot armour be damned!

Unfortunately ratings went downhill from pretty much day one, and though the entire series aired, CBS were not inclined to green-light a second season. What second season? we hear you cry. Well, that would be the second season in an anthology format, with each series dealing with a new story and set of characters, a la American Horror Story - a whole two years before AHS hit screens. What could have been…