If you experience soaring heartrates and sweaty palms at the sight of haunted dolls or evil nuns, it doesn’t mean you can’t participate in spooky evenings – you just need to choose something a little milder.

Read on for five TV series with Halloween vibes, that won’t give you night terrors…

Wednesday

Netflix

Jenna Ortega reportedly trained herself not to blink for the title role in Tim Burton’s reimagining of The Addams Family.

This new iteration of Wednesday Addams retains the classic deadpan delivery that everyone knows and loves, but instead of being a fish out of water, Wednesday goes to a school designed for those who don’t fit right in. If you’re a fan of Christina Ricci’s Wednesday, Ortega’s portrayal has got her sign off – so much so that Ricci stars as Marilyn Thornhill, the school’s Botany teacher.

At Nevermore Academy, Wednesday’s roommate is a werewolf, her school crush makes paintings come to life, and the local barista seems like a regular guy. But when local kids go missing, everyone’s a suspect.

You

Netflix

If you want true crime without the devastating real-life consequences, then You is for you. Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgley plays Joe Goldberg, a baseball cap-wearing bookshop manager with a penchant for getting obsessed with local women. Joe met his match in series two and three with Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti, The Haunting of Hill House) but in series four his hunt became more local with Charlotte Ritchie’s (Fresh Meat) British socialite Kate.

What We Do in the Shadows

BBC iPlayer

Vampires enter the modern day, where computers and social media pose more of a threat than garlic and crucifixes. With comedians Natasia Demetriou, Matt Berry and Kayvan Novak heading the cast, this mockumentary style format sees the vamps learn how to pay rent, figure out how to use Tinder, and talk to Alexa. Spooky.

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Netflix

Sabrina Spellman the teenage witch got her start in Archie alongside the original Riverdale comics. In this adaptation the half-witch must choose between her life in the mortal world and her witchy roots. If you remember the OG 90s series, this new edition is a lot darker – it stars Kiernan Shipka, who’s on her way to being a modern-day scream queen after featuring in projects like Long Legs, Totally Killer, and The Silence.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Netflix

The book-to-screen adaption to end all book-to-screen adaptions.

 A Series of Unfortunate Events is almost entirely faithful to its source material, Lemony Snicket’s cult book series of the same name. Snicket even gets a role in the series, played by Patrick Warburton (Family Guy), who narrates the unfortunate lives of Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny (Presley Smith) Baudelaire: three children whose parents recently died in a devastating fire.

The orphans are passed from quirky distant relative to quirky distant relative, played by a cast made up of comedy greats. Estranged aunts, uncles and cousins-three-times-removed include Lucy Punch (Motherland), Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek), Tony Hale (Arrested Development), Alfre Woodard (Desperate Housewives), and, of course, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met your Mother) as the deviously terrifying Count Olaf.