13 British Mysteries for a Dark October Night

Technically a Christmas episode, but the title and haunted-family atmosphere earn it a spot here anyway. A family reunion turns into a reckoning with old secrets and a death nine years in the making — no literal ghosts required.

A remote Anglo-Catholic theological college, an unresolved scandal, and an archdeacon found dead in the chapel — one of Dalgliesh's most atmospheric, cloistered mysteries.

A magician vanishes mid-trick during his farewell performance at London's Flanders Theatre, and the venue's owner insists it's the work of the Flanders Phantom. Eliza doesn't believe in ghosts — but she does believe someone's hiding something.

Dalgliesh travels to a clifftop home for the disabled in Dorset after an old friend dies suddenly — and finds a second, more suspicious death waiting for him. One of the moodier, more gothic Dalgliesh mysteries, with isolation and secrets that don't stay buried.

A death photographer starts receiving manipulated photographs that appear to carry messages from beyond the grave. It looks like a haunting — until Eliza traces it back to a very human, very calculated act of revenge.

A séance, a supposedly haunted house, and a village filled with people who may — or may not — believe in things that go bump in the night. This Midsomer mystery leans beautifully into supernatural atmosphere while still delivering the eccentric characters and village secrets fans expect.