Neil Gaiman Tells ‘Likely Stories’ Through Horror-Themed Streaming Video Platform Shudder

As Shudder looks to gain a foothold among scream aficionados, it has turned to a man who is well known for his dark storytelling. Neil Gaiman, a Renaissance man best known for his books and graphic novels, is the creative force behind Likely Stories, an anthology series that makes its premiere on Shudder on August 31.

Likely Stories will feature four stories that will be linked by their shared cast and their gloomy mood. In that sense, it resembles another popular anthology series in its genre, American Horror Story, which will return for its seventh season in September. In a teaser it shared on its YouTube channel, Shudder gave viewers a preview of the foreboding tales to come.

For Shudder, which was first born in 2014 out of a partnership between AMC Networks and DramaFever and began to launch original content earlier this year, Likely Stories is a powerful piece of programming that has the potential to draw in new subscribers. Gaiman’s show received positive reviews upon its release in the UK last year, and American audiences are likely to latch onto it just as British ones did.

If you’re curious to see what Gaiman’s anthology has in store, you can subscribe to Shudder for $4.99 a month or $47.88 a year.