Lore

Lore Season 1 release dates →

1. E6

   6. Unboxed

   Finale 9 years ago

   Robert Gene Otto is a child without friends. That is, until he receives a doll as a gift. He names the doll after himself, Robert. They become fast friends and soon the boy believes the doll is real. But to everyone else...Robert the Doll is a curse.

2. E5

   5. The Beast Within

   9 years ago

   Werewolves are now movie monsters. But they were once thought to be all too real. In 1589, villagers in Bedburg, Germany, are convinced that a werewolf is killing women and children only to discover the killer is really one of their own.

3. E4

   4. Passing Notes

   9 years ago

   In 19th century America, at the height of the Spiritualist Movement, a haunted house is not just the stuff of ghost stories. Many believe the dead can talk and, sometimes, will come back from the other side to wreak havoc on the living.

4. E3

   3. Black Stockings

   9 years ago

   In 19th century Ireland, folklore has a strong hold. Michael Cleary is convinced his wife, Bridget, has been replaced by a fairy called a changeling. And his belief drives him to the most extreme act.

5. E2

   2. Echoes

   9 years ago

   Dr. Walter Freeman is the father of the icepick lobotomy. He believes the ten-minute procedure will all but end the need for the mental hospital. He has the best of intentions but winds up creating an entirely new kind of horror story.

6. E1

   1. They Made a Tonic

   9 years ago

   Before we knew how disease spread, medicine was as much superstition as it was science. And in the small New England towns of the 1800s, there is a belief that consumption can only be stopped by making sure the dead are actually dead.

Season 2 marks a deeper dive into the surprising characters and real-life stories behind some of the world's historical atrocities. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the Age of Rockets, Lore 2 explores the motivations of the damned and the bloody and far-reaching aftermath of that damnation.

Lore Season 2 release dates →

1. E6

   6. Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine

   Finale 8 years ago

   In 1922, only one person, Jack Parsons, believed that we could send a rocket into space and conjure a demon. By 1952, he had done both. But all he cared about was the Scarlet Woman he had both summoned, and lost, Marjorie Cameron.

2. E5

   5. Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley

   8 years ago

   A young woman, raised in a town controlled by a religious zealot, must rectify a fatal mistake before a ravenous mob hangs the Old Witch, Mary Webster, in this story set just 11 years before and 100 miles from Salem, Massachusetts.

3. E4

   4. Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj

   8 years ago

   As two clockmakers race against the curse of the Orloj, a curse that has already driven the city of Prague to madness and death with the Black Plague, these brothers will discover the price of trying to change history.

4. E3

   3. Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic

   8 years ago

   In the German hinterlands, between World Wars, a family goes to bed, not knowing that their killer has been living in the walls and attics of their home like a ghost, watching, waiting for his chance to strike, in one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time.

5. E2

   2. Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror

   8 years ago

   The aging Countess of Blood, running out of virginal peasants to drain of their youthful essence, brings in a bright-eyed noble to start a new cycle of torture and murder.

6. E1

   1. Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science

   8 years ago

   Two shunned Irish immigrants in Scotland start off as grave robbers to sell the dead to doctors, but decide that creating their own inventory is much easier, and become the most prolific mass-murdering duo in history.