15 Best Horror TV Series

Screw it - it counts.

Loose sketch show The League of Gentleman is every bit as disturbing as it is hilarious. There's never been anything quite like it - it's like Monty Python meets the Amicus movies of the 70s, with a dash of The Wicker Man. Every episode has at least one nod to a classic horror movie; those are fun to spot.

Its characters are repulsively grotesque. By far the best and most iconic characters are Edward and his wife Tubbs, the proprietors of the town's local shop with an intense wariness and hatred of outsiders. The plot takes a number of hilariously dark turns over its four seasons: from the butcher who triggers a deadly plague among the townspeople by selling his "special stuff" (implied to be human meat), to a mysterious carnival master who kidnaps and cages women as his new wives. Some of the biggest laughs come from a clueless vet who keeps f***ing up and killing his clients' pets in increasingly graphic ways, and a depressed low-life who's suicidal outbursts are triggered by the slightest thing. The humour in this show is deliciously dark.

Psychoville and Inside No. 9 are also thoroughly entertaining, although categorizing them as horror series might be too far of a stretch.