10 Horror TV Shows That Got Cancelled After Just One Season

Since Bram Stroker's beloved horror masterpiece was first brought to life on the big screen in 1922's silent film Nosferatu, Dracula has been a household name and an icon outside of literature, having featured in a plethora of films, comics, and video games. He has also starred in some brilliant pieces of television productions, one of which was NBC's 2013 retelling of Stoker's classic book.

Featuring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the dreaded vampire, Drac has been mysteriously resurrected and takes on the alias of Alexander Grayson, who wants to modernise Victorian London. While enjoying the world he finds himself in, Dracula reunites with his former foe Abraham Van Helsing and the two attempt to destroy an organisation - known only as the Order of the Dragon - that the vampire and human despise from their past encounters with its dastardly members.

NBC's take on Dracula certainly had a lot of promise when it aired, as the first episode gained over five million viewers in the US and the series was made by the same people responsible for the globally successful The Tudors and Downton Abbey. Despite the talent in front and behind the camera, the number of people tuning in fell dramatically, and that was the final nail in the coffin for this short-lived retelling of Dracula.