10 Best Anthology Series on Netflix in 2025

In this list, we walk you through 10 of the best anthology shows that Netflix offers. Whether live-action or animated, fantasy, science fiction, or horror — we’ve got something for you!

The anthology series is one of the most popular television formats out there. From classics like The Twilight Zone, to modern masterpieces like Black Mirror — we’ve got a gluttony of shows to choose from. Netflix itself has a huge library of anthology titles. Allow us to introduce you to 10 of the very best that the streamer has to offer!

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The title of this show pretty much explains itself. Japanese Tales of the Macabre adapts various stories from legendary manga artist Junji Ito, including such beloved works as The Hanging Balloons, Sōichi, and Tomie. Praised for being faithful to the original manga, the series explores everything from psychological horror to grotesque, visceral terrors. 

The animated series aired on Netflix in 2023, telling 20 brilliant stories adapted from manga collections. 

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Based on speculative stories from Taiwanese company MirrorFiction, Til Death Do Us Part is a science fiction thriller anthology show. The 7-episode series is dark, gritty, and explores humanity’s deepest desires and fears. Stories range from time-loops, to the dangers of social media.

 Til Death Do Us Part is  a violent and thought-provoking anthology, providing a fascinating commentary on desires, emotions, relationships, and society. 

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In the 1800s, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected some of the most iconic fairytales known to man. We’re talking Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, Rapunzel — the list goes on. Over the years, these stories have become household titles, being adapted to everything from film, to stage, and beyond. 

This brings us to The Grimm Variations, a Japanese anime series that retells some of the Grimm’s most well-known tales in unique and creative ways. Some of the fairytales it retells include Cinderella, The Pied Piper, and Hansel & Gretel. The series was commended for its creativity, and it currently stands at a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes!

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Haunted is one of the most unique shows on Netflix. The series is told in a documentary style, where individuals share their paranormal encounters and experiences, surrounded by friends and family. The stories are told through chilling re-enactments. Episodes are short and sweet, ranging from 20-30 minutes per episode. 

Some highlights from the series include Cult of Torture, where a man shares his disturbing experience with a religious conversion therapy cult. There’s also Ward of Evil, which follows a lady who faces a peculiar force while working as a nurse with dementia patients. 

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This anthology tells its story through the lens of technological breakthroughs and humanity’s relationship with them. Sound familiar? Yes, it does share numerous similarities to Black Mirror. Through its four episodes, the series dives into what a future Thailand could look like, from robotics to A.I. religions to apocalyptic rain and cloning. 

If you love Black Mirror and find yourself in need of something to fill the gap, Tomorrow and I isn’t perfect, but it’s a fantastic option. 

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Think of Bloodride as a Scandinavian version of Black Mirror, with more of a focus on the macabre than technological threats. The 6-episode anthology series is designed to shock you to your core, while also delivering a little bleak humour. It offers up a creepy, bizarre atmosphere that’s unsettling from the outset. 

The series sets the scene inside a spectral bus headed to a mystery location, where doomed passengers recount their grizzly fates. It’s perfect for fans of American Horror Story.

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Slasher isn’t for the squeamish! Created by Aaron Martin, each season follows a different masked killer, in a different setting, each with a different motive for killing. Through suspenseful, violent, and scary episodes, the series has constant twists and turns, untangling the killer’s motivation through a web of secrets.

Slasher is for you if you love gruesome and violent movies and series like American Horror Story and Saw. Sadly, Netflix never got the newer seasons, Flesh & Blood and Ripper (they’re locked to Shudder), but still houses the first three seasons. 

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From legendary director, Guillermo del Toro comes Cabinet of Curiosities, an anthology series intended to be mind-bending to the core. Presented by the master of horror himself, Cabinet of Curiosities tells short, one-shot horror tales. The 8-episode season is a mixed bag. Some of the best episodes include Graveyard Rats, where a grave robber becomes trapped underground and faces an attack by an army of rodents, and The Autopsy, where a sheriff investigates a dead body in the woods and uncovers the terrifying events that caused the death.

It’s not expected the series is coming back for a second season right now given that GDT is currently attached to a number of other Netflix projects, not least Frankenstein coming up later this year, but fingers crossed this gets revisited in some fashion in the future. 

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Created by Tim Miller and David Fincher, Love, Death + Robots is one of the world’s most popular anthology series. Through numerous gorgeous animation styles, the series dives into a variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comedy. Some of the show’s most popular themes are post-apocalyptic survival stories, A.I., dark comedy, and mortality. It’s hard to explain Love, Death + Robots in one sentence because it’s so sprawling and wide-ranging in its content. You’ll have to trust me on this one. Anthology series can be hit and miss, but this one is mostly hit after hit.

It’s the ultimate box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get. But be warned, if you’re anything like me, you’ll binge them all in one day and be left craving more. We’re still waiting for the next volume which is expected imminently. 

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Black Mirror needs no introduction. The British sci-fi anthology series from Charlie Brooker is perhaps the most popular show in its niche. Black Mirror dives deep into psychological horror through unique and twisted tales that show dangers that await humanity if huge technological breakthroughs continue to occur. The series has been running for 6 seasons so far, with the seventh installment coming in April!

The series is designed to shock you, disturb you, and leave storylines lingering in your mind long after viewing. In fact, the term “black mirror” has become an everyday phrase for many in reference to the show’s mind-bending tales.