I love a creepy little town full of secrets and dark deeds, whether it's Twin Peaks, Hawkins (of Stranger Things fame), or Jessica Fletcher's Cabot Cove, the Maine fishing village from Murder, She Wrote with the alarmingly high death rate. The latest addition to this atlas of regrettable vacation destinations is Widow's Bay, the insular New England island that is the setting for the new Apple TV series of the same name.

The town seems idyllic on the surface, but according to some of the locals, it appears to be "waking up," in a supernatural way. This is bad timing for the mayor, Tom Loftis, a relative newcomer who's hoping to build the place into a quaint tourist destination. A few episodes in, the show is frequently legitimately funny, but also plausibly scary (think clowns in crawlspaces)—and if you're looking to visit other terrifying locales between episodes, here are 15 spooky suggestions. Stream Widow's Bay on Apple TV.

Shining Vale (2022 – 2023)

Shining Vale opens by advising us that women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression—but also twice as likely to be possessed by a demon. And the symptoms are the same. Courteney Cox's Pat Phelps isn't really sure which problem she's experiencing when her wildly dysfunctional family moves to a big ol' Victorian mansion in a tiny Connecticut town, hoping that getting out of the big city will solve all their problems. As you might suspect, it doesn't, and adds a whole lot more in the form of supernatural forces related to dark things that have happened in the house. Shining Vale deals frankly with issues of women and mental illness but, like Widow's Bay, also comes at its ghostly threats with a sense of humor. Stream Shining Vale on HBO Max.

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The 'Burbs (2026 – )

Nothing much overtly supernatural here, but the show's premise is that the suburbs are so insular and creepy, particularly if you're not a local, which feels close enough. This fun and very loose adaptation of the 1989 Tom Hanks film finds Keke Palmer's Samira and Jack Whitehall's Rob moving back to his impossibly safe and tidy hometown. Their house happens to be across the street from a dilapidated Victorian eyesore that may or may not have been the location of a murder a couple of decades before. As Samira adjusts to new motherhood as well as life on the cul-de-sac, she learns that even the nicest of her neighbors (played by Julia Duffy, Paula Pell, Mark Proksch, and Kapil Talwalkar) have secrets, and comes to suspect that her husband knows more about the dead girl than he's letting on. Stream The 'Burbs on Peacock.

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The Third Day (2020)

This weird and ambitious slice of folk horror finds Jude Law's Sam arriving on Osea Island while grieving his murdered son and trying to save his failing business. After he intervenes when he sees a young woman attempting to hang herself, Sam get caught up in some wildly atmospheric creepiness around the town. Later, Naomie Harris' Helen arrives on the island with her daughters only to discover that everything's gone to hell, and that the causeway that connects the island to the mainland is gone. In between the two halves of the miniseries, the creators produced an immersive, 12-hour-long, single-camera livestream capturing a day in the life of the island, and it's a wild bit of innovation. Admittedly, it's all a bit more vibes than plot, but the vibes are genuinely disturbing. Stream The Third Day on HBO Max.

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Obituary (2023 – )

Heading to rural Ireland, we meet Elvira Clancy (Siobhán Cullen), a freelance obituarist and erstwhile goth girl with money problems. There's decent money in the job, but there are only so many deaths in the tiny (fictional) town of Killraven—but she happens on a way to up the death count after she kinda accidentally pushes a jerk off a cliff. This is as dark as dark comedies get, as Elvira comes off less like a serial killer and more like a grown-up Wednesday Addams. Stream Obituary on Hulu.

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Haven (2010 – 2015)

Occasionally light but not obviously comedic, Haven (based on the Stephen King short story "The Colorado Kid") nevertheless has the "weird stuff goes down in a remote town" part down pat. Emily Rose stars as Audrey Parker, an FBI Special Agent sent to the titular Maine town on a routine case. Soon she is drawn into “the Troubles," a series of harmful supernatural events that have recurred throughout the town’s history—and, by no coincidence, are happening again. The supernatural-case-of-the-week format gives way to a bigger mystery when Audrey comes to learn that this isn’t her first time in Haven, nor the first time she’s en

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