With Halloween right around the corner, it's the perfect time for a marathon of television frights. When people think about TV horror, they probably think of the zombies of The Walking Dead or an old episode of an anthology series like The Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt that haunted their dreams — or, more recently, Netflix's very scary Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities. The truth is that horror has been a reliable part of the TV landscape for generations, and it's a remarkably diverse genre.
Trimming this list down to fifty for Vulture was difficult: There are truly terrifying episodes of Dexter, The Outer Limits, Fringe, and others that just barely missed the cut, and you could put together an entire separate list from the very best of Rod Serling's groundbreaking masterpiece. With that in mind, here are the scariest ones to make Vulture's cut —The 50 Most Terrifying TV Episodes to Watch This Halloween when you're looking for a truly chilling scare.
