Lore (2017)
This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's “Lore” podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawned our darkest nightmares. Blending dramatic scenes, animation, archive and narration, Lore reveals how our horror legends - such as vampires, werewolves and body snatchers - are rooted in truth.
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Episode 1 - Burke and Hare: In The Name of Science
Release Date: 2018-10-18Two 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.
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Episode 2 - Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror
Release Date: 2018-10-18The 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.
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Episode 3 - Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic
Release Date: 2018-10-18In 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.
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Episode 4 - Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj
Release Date: 2018-10-18As 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.
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Episode 5 - Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley
Release Date: 2018-10-18A 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.
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Episode 6 - Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine
Release Date: 2018-10-18In 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.