This anthology series brings to life Aaron Mahnke's titular podcast and uncovers the real-life events that spawn our darkest nightmares. Blending reenactments, 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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Amazon Prime Video
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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 12
- Latest aired
- S02E01
- Total runtime
- 8h 34min
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 October 2017 6 episodes
- Season 2 October 2018 6 episodes
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S02E01 Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science
October 18 · 55min find the promo
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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.
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S02E02 Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror
October 18 · 36min find the promo
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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.
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S02E03 Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic
October 18 · 53min find the promo
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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.
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S02E04 Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj
October 18 · 40min find the promo
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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.
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S02E05 Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley
October 18 · 35min find the promo
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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.
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S02E06 Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine
October 18 · 44min find the promo
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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.