Shows Like From: 11 Creepy Mystery Series to Watch Next

If you liked FROM, you probably liked the feeling of being stuck more than you liked any single scare. The town will not let people leave, the night has rules, and the residents keep learning those rules the hard way. The mystery escalates instead of pausing for a tidy explanation. This list stays with that feeling: closed places, secrets the group cannot afford, and questions that get worse. Some of these are horror. Some are investigative mysteries that only borrow horror’s temperature. That difference is the point, so you can pick dread or a case file.

The series itself is on the FROM guide. The wider shelf is TV Shows. If the part you loved was the puzzle more than the forest, Shows Like Dark is the next stop. For the movie version of an investigation that will not sit still, the psychological thriller movies guide is the film-side cousin.

The 11 series

1. Yellowjackets

Yellowjackets strands a team where rescue is not coming and then watches the group invent a society out of hunger, guilt, and belief. The wilderness keeps score the way FROM’s forest does, but the trap is a crash and a winter, not a town with a road that folds back on itself. The show also splits time, so the horror is as much about who these people had to become as about what is outside the cabin. It is still a returning series, with more than one season already aired, so it does not offer FROM’s viewers a finished answer. What it offers is the same social rot: friendship as a resource that runs out.

The supernatural pressure is suggested, argued over, and sometimes denied by the characters. That ambiguity is useful if FROM felt too literal once the creatures arrived. Yellowjackets lets the explanation stay contested.

Why it matches: A closed group, a hostile landscape, and secrets that reorganize loyalty.

Best for: Viewers who want the psychological break inside the trap, not only the thing in the dark.

2. The Leftovers

The Leftovers begins with a disappearance nobody can explain and then refuses to treat the mystery as a puzzle you are owed. People left behind build cults, jokes, and marriages around an absence. It is ended, three seasons, and the ending is emotional rather than forensic. That is the meaningful difference from FROM. FROM keeps adding rules you can fail. The Leftovers keeps adding grief you cannot file. The tone is stranger and often funnier, then suddenly religious in a way that is not comforting.

If you only wanted the next clue about the town, this will feel evasive. If you wanted the sight of ordinary people living beside an event that broke cause and effect, it is the most adult show on this list. It is finished, which also matters: you can reach the last hour without a renewal hanging over it.

Why it matches: An unexplained rupture, and a community that cannot agree on what the rupture means.

Best for: Viewers who can trade jump scares for grief, faith, and an ending that chooses feeling over a diagram.

3. Lost

Lost is the ancestor of the “we cannot leave, and the island has opinions” story. A plane crash delivers strangers into a place with its own physics, its own factions, and a pile of questions that eventually include time. It is ended, a long six-season commitment, and it is more of an adventure than FROM. There are romances, comic beats, and mythology that sprawls until the show has to gather it. FROM is meaner and more local. Lost keeps opening doors.

The match is still real. Both series are about a found group writing laws because the environment will punish improvisation. Both tease symbols before they explain them. Go in knowing the length, and knowing that some answers satisfied people and some became arguments. It is not a tight horror season. It is the template.

Why it matches: A place that traps arrivals and then dares them to understand the rules.

Best for: Viewers who want the big ensemble version and have the patience for a finished, messy mythology.

4. Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks put a corpse in a small town and then let the town’s dream life matter as much as the detective work. The original run and the later return are part of one ended story. The difference from FROM is style. Twin Peaks is surreal, comic, and willing to stop the plot for a mood that does not advance the clue. FROM is a survival engine. People need food, shelter, and a plan for sunset. Twin Peaks needs you to accept that the evil is also a feeling in the room.

Watch it when the Pacific Northwest dread is what you want, and when you do not need every symbol to become a rule you could write on a whiteboard. The mystery is famous because it withholds. That withholding is deliberate, not a delay before a creature feature.

Why it matches: A town performing normal life over something that does not belong in daylight.

Best for: Viewers who want dream logic and can live without a tactical explanation.

5. Midnight Mass

Midnight Mass isolates a community on a small island and lets a religious revival explain away the thing that is feeding. It is a finished limited series, one season, which makes it a clean alternative if you are tired of FROM’s open questions. The horror is moral before it is gory. People choose what to believe because belief organizes the fear, and the show is patient about how a sermon can become a survival plan.

The difference is focus. There is no forest full of anonymous threats. There is a congregation, a priest, and a miracle that asks for blood. If FROM’s appeal was “the group will fracture under a rule they only half understand,” Midnight Mass is the version where the rule is preached out loud. It ends. You do not have to wait on it.

Why it matches: An isolated place, a shared story that keeps people calm, and a cost that arrives anyway.

Best for: Viewers who want a completed horror parable about faith, guilt, and a town that talks itself into danger.

6. The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House is a family ghost story, ended in a single season, about a house that keeps the people who tried to leave it. The scares are crafted and often sudden. The subject is grief: siblings who cannot agree on what they survived, and parents who made a catastrophic decision in the name of holding on. It is more intimate than FROM and less interested in a town-wide system.

Choose it when you want the horror to be about memory. The house is a trap, but the trap is also the story the family tells. You will not get FROM’s expanding mythology. You will get a finished arc and a clearer emotional target. That is a feature if the town mystery has started to feel like homework.

Why it matches: A place that does not release people, and a group that breaks while trying to name what happened.

Best for: Viewers who want polished, completed horror where the ghost story is also a family story.

7. The Outsider

The Outsider starts as a crime investigation and only slowly admits that the crime does not fit a human suspect. It is a finished limited series. Detectives, evidence, and professional skepticism do the work that FROM assigns to frightened neighbors. That is the difference worth naming: one is a procedural that becomes unnatural, the other is a camp under siege that becomes a mystery.

The pace is adult and gloomy. There is less spectacle than in a monster series, and more argument about what kind of evidence a rational person is allowed to trust. If you liked FROM’s questions but wanted someone with a badge to be the one asking them, this is the cleaner match. It does not build a multi-season town. It solves, as far as it is willing to solve, inside one season.

Why it matches: A case that stops making sense inside ordinary investigation, without turning into a joke.

Best for: Viewers who want horror approached from the police file, and a story that ends.

8. Wayward Pines

Wayward Pines is the bluntest cousin on this list: a town you are not permitted to leave, with punishments for asking how the borders work. It ran two seasons and was canceled, so treat it as an unfinished system rather than a saga. The first season is the one that shares FROM’s premise most directly. Later episodes push the explanation toward science fiction in a way FROM has been slower to cash out.

Be honest with yourself about that overlap. If you want the same “pretty streets, lethal curfew” idea and you want the reveal sooner, Wayward Pines is the faster machine. It is also less atmospheric and less willing to sit in dread without a twist. The cancellation means the larger plan does not get a graceful ending. Watch it for the first-season trap, not for completion.

Why it matches: A sealed town, public rules, and a secret about why the road does not work.

Best for: Viewers who want the premise with more plot mechanics and can accept a canceled second season.

9. 1899

1899 puts passengers on a ship who cannot get a straight answer about the voyage, the other ship, or their own memories. One season aired, and the series was canceled, so this is a beautiful unfinished puzzle, not a commitment you can complete. The period setting and the international cast make it feel larger than FROM’s one town. The anxiety is similar: a vehicle that has become a prison, and clues that imply the prison is designed.

Do not start it if an unresolved ending will bother you more than the mystery pleases you. Do start it if you liked the moment in FROM when the rules stopped sounding like folklore and started sounding like a system. 1899 lives in that moment and does not get to leave it. The images are the compensation. The closure is not.

Why it matches: A closed journey, repeating symbols, and the fear that the group was selected.

Best for: Viewers who will trade an ending for design, mood, and a mystery that stays metaphysical.

10. Servant

Servant shrinks the trap to a single wealthy house, a nanny, and a grief that curdles into something ritual. It ended after four seasons, so unlike several shows here it does reach a last episode. The horror is domestic and often nasty in a quiet way: meals, nursery rooms, religious relatives, and a family that would rather keep a terrible arrangement than admit what they lost. There is no forest and no town meeting. The claustrophobia is interior decorating.

It matches FROM if what you liked was the sense that everyone in the room knows a piece of the rule and nobody will say the whole rule out loud. It does not match if you need a community-scale mystery or creatures in the woods. The tone is icy, sometimes darkly comic, and obsessed with caretaking as a kind of violence.

Why it matches: A household bound by an unspoken bargain, with horror growing out of care and denial.

Best for: Viewers who want a finished, intimate nightmare instead of a town that keeps expanding.

11. Castle Rock

Castle Rock uses Stephen King’s town as a place where ordinary jobs sit on top of something wrong. Two seasons aired before it was canceled, and the seasons are closer to linked stories than to one escalating plot, which is the main difference from FROM. You get the evil-town atmosphere without a single question that the show has promised to answer in season six. Some hours are closer to a crime story. Some are closer to a haunting.

That looseness is useful after FROM’s tight trap. You can take the dread in pieces. You should not expect one mythology to pay off across a decade. The town itself is the recommendation: a place that produces horror the way other towns produce gossip, and a tone that stays American-gothic rather than survivalist.

Why it matches: Small-town evil, with secrets treated as local history instead of a game.

Best for: Viewers who want the setting and can accept an anthology-like, canceled run.

How to choose among them

If you want the sealed town with rules, start with Wayward Pines and know it explains itself faster than FROM. If you want the group to come apart in the wilderness, start with Yellowjackets. If you want a completed story, Midnight Mass, Hill House, The Outsider, The Leftovers, Lost, and Servant all end. 1899, Wayward Pines, and Castle Rock do not. Horror and mystery are not the same request. The Outsider and Lost investigate. Midnight Mass and Servant accuse. FROM does both and then leaves the night outside.

More series live on TV Shows, including Dark if the next thing you want is a finished timeline instead of a forest. Severance is the trap moved indoors, under fluorescent lights, if the horror you liked was a system rather than a creature.