Shows Like Salem's Lot
If you liked Salem's Lot (1979), a mystery series created by Stephen King and Paul Monash, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Rose Red (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryDr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, commissions a team of psychics and a gifted autistic girl to find out the truth about an old, supposedly haunted mansion called Rose Red.
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Goosebumps (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also mysteryA group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.
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Crooked House (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryCrooked House is a British supernatural drama miniseries broadcast on BBC Four from 22-24 December 2008. Created and written by Mark Gatiss, and produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, the serial stars Lee Ingleby and…
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A Haunting (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also mysteryThese are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Based on true events, A Haunting dramatises some of the scariest stories, revealing a world in which tragedy, suicide and murder have left psychic…
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Heirs of the Night (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery1889: the five remaining vampire clans in Europe are training to survive. In their midst is 14-year-old Alisa who has the power to choose between eternal life as a vampire or for all vampires to live as humans.
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Moonlight (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryMick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities…
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Creeped Out (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also mysteryA masked figure known as "The Curious" collects tales of dark magic, otherworldly encounters and twisted technology in this kids anthology series.
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Haven (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also mysteryFBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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Dalziel and Pascoe (1996)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryIn the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS…
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Scream: The TV Series (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryWhat starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets…
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Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
★ 7.9/10Also mysteryThe adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious…
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Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also mysteryAmateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
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All Her Fault (2025)
★ 8/10Also mysteryIn Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes…
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
★ 7.8/10Also mysteryA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Calls (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also mysteryInterconnected phone conversations chronicle the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.
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Nancy Drew (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also mysteryNancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.
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What Remains (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryWhen the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
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The Witness for the Prosecution (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryThe hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.
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Forever Knight (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryForever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by…