Calling all creatures of the night: Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe is expanding. Talamasca: The Secret Order, the latest in the Immortal Universe — the shared fictional world based on Rice’s body of work — will arrive on Netflix next year after its initial Oct. 26 premiere. But until Talamasca lands on Netflix, there are plenty of other spooky AMC shows you can stream now. While heavy hitters like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Orphan Black are currently available to watch as part of the AMC Collection, the series below will bring the horrific, romantic vibes you so desperately crave — you know, like a vampire craves blood or a zombie craves brains.
Rice’s pièce de résistance, The Vampire Chronicles, comes to life in Interview with the Vampire, titled after the series’ first novel. It’s the tragic tale of two vampires, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), so obsessed with each other and their relationship that they become unreliable narrators for their own love story. The show unfolds through conversations between Louis and journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), who interviewed Louis in 1973 and is now getting a do-over 49 years later in 2022. As Louis tells it, in 1910, he was a 33-year-old man living in New Orleans who was seduced and turned by the vampire Lestat. But which version of the story should Daniel (and the audience) believe?
The series shares a title with the 1994 film, also based on Rice’s book, starring Brad Pitt as Louis and Tom Cruise as Lestat, and co-starring Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, and Thandiwe Newton.
This supernatural horror series based on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy is the second series taking place in the Immortal Universe and follows Alexandra Daddario’s Dr. Rowan Fielding, a pediatric neurosurgeon who learns she’s the heir to the powerful Mayfair witch dynasty. But it’s not all magic tricks and family reunions: Rowan and the other Mayfairs are haunted by an ominous spirit and lorded over by the Talamasca, a secret society that researches and monitors the paranormal, including witches, vampires, werewolves, and more.
Based on author Deborah Harkness’s All Souls series, this romantic fantasy show stars Teresa Palmer as Diana Bishop and Matthew Goode as Matthew Clairmont, a witch and vampire, respectively, who are thrust together after Diana discovers a bewitched manuscript. In this magical world, witches and vampires are enemies, but Matthew and Diana feel an instant, near-supernatural draw to each other that transcends generational bad blood. Alex Kingston (Doctor Who) and Gregg Chilingirian (The Wheel of Time) co-star.
A psychological thriller with Western and film noir roots, Dark Winds is based on Tony Hillerman’s novels that follow a pair of fictional Navajo Nation police officers, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The series, which takes place in the ’70s, sees Lieutenant Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), FBI Agent Chee (Kiowa Gordon), and Sergeant Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) solve murders and other mysteries in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. McClarnon, Graham Roland, George R. R. Martin, and Robert Redford executive produced the series.
The Walking Dead, which ran for 12 years from 2010 to 2022, is an 11-season horror juggernaut that launched spin-off series (more on those below), novels, video games, and more than a few careers. Based on the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, it follows a group of survivors, led by sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. Together, this found family — including Rick’s son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun), Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride), Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), and Michonne (Danai Gurira) — fights to survive another day and maybe reclaim a version of their former world.
The first spin-off in the Walking Dead universe, Fear the Walking Dead serves as a prequel to the OG series in which audiences get to witness the apocalypse play out as the zombies descend. Like the original, it features a large ensemble cast — including Colman Domingo, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Danay Garcia, Rubén Blades, Jenna Elfman, and Lennie James — whose characters band together to try and eke out some sense of normalcy as they gain new life-saving skills. Only this time, civilization is actively collapsing around them.
Fan-favorite Walking Dead character Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) gets his own spin-off in this series that sees the archer sojourning through Europe. When Daryl washes ashore in France, where the zombie plague originated, he must piece together how he got there — and why he’s no longer with his family in Virginia. The series also stars Clémence Poésy, Romain Levi, Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, and McBride, who reprises her role as Daryl’s longtime bestie, Carol.
If The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon reunites two besties, The Walking Dead: Dead City reunites two bitter enemies. Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) from the original series are forced to work together when Maggie’s son, Hershel (Logan Kim), is kidnapped and taken to post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Think Escape From New York–style crews of hardened survivors — and add zombies and a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat named Lucille (if you know, you know).
