The Best Episodes of Lore

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   7.6/10(530 votes)

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   S1:E610/13/2017

   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.

   Director:Michael Satrazemis

   Writer:Tyler Hisel

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   Director:Michael Satrazemis

   Writer:Tyler Hisel
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   7.1/10(654 votes)

   #2 - Echoes

   S1:E210/13/2017

   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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Glen Morgan

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Glen Morgan
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   7.0/10(592 votes)

   #3 - Black Stockings

   S1:E310/13/2017

   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 Michael Cleary is convinced his wife, Bridget, has been replaced by a fairy called a changeling.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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writers:David Chiu, Patrick Wall

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writers:David Chiu, Patrick Wall
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   7.0/10(502 votes)

   #4 - Passing Notes

   S1:E410/13/2017

   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.

   Director:Nick Copus

   Writer:Glen Morgan

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   Director:Nick Copus

   Writer:Glen Morgan
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   6.9/10(844 votes)

   #5 - They Made a Tonic

   S1:E110/13/2017

   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.

   Director:Darnell Martin

   Writers:Jeff Eckerle, Marilyn Osborn

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   Director:Darnell Martin

   Writers:Jeff Eckerle, Marilyn Osborn
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   6.9/10(495 votes)

   #6 - The Beast Within

   S1:E510/13/2017

   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.

   Director:Darnell Martin

   Writer:David Coggeshall

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   Director:Darnell Martin

   Writer:David Coggeshall
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   6.8/10(378 votes)

   #7 - Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic

   S2:E310/18/2018

   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.

   Director:Christoph Schrewe

   Writer:Jose Molina

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   Director:Christoph Schrewe

   Writer:Jose Molina
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   6.6/10(435 votes)

   #8 - Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science

   S2:E110/18/2018

   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.

   Director:Christoph Schrewe

   Writer:Carlos Foglia

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   Director:Christoph Schrewe

   Writer:Carlos Foglia
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   6.6/10(383 votes)

   #9 - Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror

   S2:E210/18/2018

   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.

   Director:Alice Troughton

   Writer:Ashley Halloran

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   Director:Alice Troughton

   Writer:Ashley Halloran
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    6.3/10(305 votes)

    #10 - Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley

    S2:E510/18/2018

    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.

    Director:Alice Troughton

    Writer:Alyssa Clark

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    Director:Alice Troughton

    Writer:Alyssa Clark
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    5.9/10(322 votes)

    #11 - Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj

    S2:E410/18/2018

    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.

    Director:Christoph Schrewe

    Writer:Ashley Miller

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    Director:Christoph Schrewe

    Writer:Ashley Miller
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    5.8/10(310 votes)

    #12 - Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine

    S2:E610/18/2018

    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.

    Director:Alice Troughton

    Writer:Sean Crouch

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    Director:Alice Troughton

    Writer:Sean Crouch