The fourth season of The Walking Dead finds Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) desperate to rediscover his own humanity and preserve what he can of his son Carl's (Chandler Riggs) childhood through reinventing himself as a farmer while a counsel including Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) in addition to several Woodbury ex-pats take on leadership roles. His newfound sense of peace is quickly derailed, however, when a mysterious illness begins to decimate the community. Elsewhere, the disgraced Governor (David Morrissey) roams the apocalyptic streets on his own until happening upon a family of survivors who reignite both his will to survive and take revenge against Rick, who he blames for the loss of Woodbury. Following a massacre at the prison, the group is splintered into several factions, none of whom can be sure about the fates of the others, and forced to find shelter among a population of survivors that can pose as much and often more of a threat than the walkers themselves.

The second season of creator Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story takes place inside of a bleak mental institution called Briarcliff. Patients tend to disappear physically, emotionally, or both once inside this last stop for the criminally insane (and in many instances, criminally unlucky), for in addition to the sadistic ministrations of administrator Sister Jude and the threat of a serial killer known as "Bloody Face", lurks an otherworldly evil that may be the cruelest force of all.

This release from the groundbreaking sci-fi horror series The Strain includes the show's entire first season.