Horror anthologies have existed from the earliest days of the movies. In 1919, Austrian director Richard Oswald bundled together a series of, well, eerie tales, inaugurating a subgenre that persists today. It can be a brilliant way to experience a good cinematic scare – in short, quick shocks, like picking a spiked treat from a box of cursed chocolates, popping it in your brain, then moving to the next one.
Of course, in some instances, episodic horror can amount to half-assed vignettes tossed off by directors in between longer, more serious projects. In the best horror anthologies, though, each story is a tight, tense nightmare, packing enough scares into scant runtime to rival any feature-length fright. Here are 11 of the best collections, as chosen by horror author Simon Crook.
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