Cross-media picks for Wes Craven fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks share what draws fans to Wes Craven's corner of horror: fear that starts somewhere ordinary — a family road trip, a school dance, a childhood bedroom — then refuses to let go. Films, series, games, and books all qualify. The threat is sometimes supernatural, sometimes human, often both. It, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, Summer of Night — the format and decade change; the dread accumulating in familiar places doesn't.
Film
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
A psychologist tormented by recurring nightmares comes face to face with Freddy Krueger himself.
Film
The Hills Have Eyes
A family stranded in a government atomic wasteland faces savagery from something far worse than the desert itself.
Film
Deadly Blessing
A widow living near a religious cult fears for her life after a suspicious death on the property.
Film
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Teenagers share the same dream-stalker — a disfigured man with a bladed glove — and start dying in their sleep.
Film
Invitation to Hell
Suburban ambition sours when a country club's charismatic manager appears to hold a supernatural grip on the whole community.
Film
Prom Night
A masked killer hunts four teenagers at prom night, collecting a debt for a childhood death they caused.
Film
The Howling
A newswoman recovering from a serial-killer encounter is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants are not what they seem.
Film
Lost After Dark
Teenagers fleeing a high school dance stumble onto a remote farmhouse occupied by a cannibal killer.
Series
It
Childhood outcasts battle a shapeshifting child-killer clown, then must face it again thirty years later as adults.
Series
Edge of Darkness
A father's murder investigation pulls him into a conspiracy reaching the darkest corners of British nuclear policy.
Series
Hammer House of Horror
Anthology episodes cycle through witches, werewolves, cannibals, and serial killers — no safe harbour between stories.
Series
Slasher
A woman returns to her small hometown and finds herself at the centre of a new series of murders.
Series
Touching Evil
A detective with a bullet still lodged in his skull hunts organised serial killers, blurring hunter and haunted.
Series
The Shining
A new caretaker moves his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.
Series
Darker
A vigilante killer who targets criminals the law ignored forces detectives to decide how far justice can stretch.
Series
Dies Irae
A Nazi occult ritual in 1945 Berlin awakens something ancient, and its consequences reach into the present day.
Game
Five Nights at Freddy's 4
Something worse than animatronic monsters lurks in the shadows of a child's bedroom every single night.
Game
Alone in the Dark 3
A movie-studio ghost town turns out to be genuinely haunted — and Edward Carnby is trapped inside.
Game
Song of Horror
Whispering mirrors and closed doors guard the secret behind a writer's disappearance in this survival horror.
Game
SEPTEMBER 1999
A five-minute found-footage horror experience that uses VHS grain to make the mundane feel genuinely dangerous.
Game
Killing Time
Gallows humour and paranormal violence collide in a puzzle-heavy shooter that rewards thinking over shooting.
Game
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
Recurring nightmares pull a woman toward a cursed spirit manor where the dead refuse to stay gone.
Game
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Thirty years on, the horrors of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza return as a horror-attraction exhibit — and something survives inside.
Game
Splatterhouse (1989)
Plunged into darkness, a man makes a pact with a terror mask to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend.
Book
Vampire mom
A child discovers his mother is being transformed into a monster by a sinister necklace she cannot remove.
Book
Ghost night
A slasher movie shoot on a remote island turns real when cast members start dying on set.
Book
Craven House horrors
A reader trapped in a storm-lashed house must make branching choices to survive — and some paths lead nowhere good.
Book
Summer of night
In 1960 Illinois, a school closes for the summer and something dark slips out with the children.
Book
What Moves the Dead
A retired soldier arrives at a decaying ancestral home and finds fungal horror spreading through the living and the dead.
Book
In the Dark
Wartime London's blacked-out streets hide a serial killer exploiting the cover of the Blitz.
Book
Murder for Halloween
An anthology of Halloween-set crime and horror fiction — monsters, curses, and killers across the collection.
Book
Dead of night
A condemned serial killer is brought back from death by an experimental drug — with catastrophic, unforeseen results.
Start with the TV miniseries It (1990) for long-form supernatural dread, or Slasher for a modern small-town slasher series. On film, The Howling and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) share the same trapped-and-hunted intensity.
Summer of Night pits children against small-town evil in a 1960 Illinois setting, while What Moves the Dead delivers Gothic body-horror atmosphere and Ghost Night puts a slasher on a remote film set.
Fatal Frame III: The Tormented and Song of Horror both centre on nightmare visions bleeding into waking life — exactly the dream-logic dread this selection was built around. Five Nights at Freddy's 4 brings that dread home, literally, with monsters lurking just outside a child's bedroom door.