Recently, I noticed that when Halloween rolls around, the horror recommendation lists re-appear, and they tend to have the same classics listed again and again. These classics deserve it, and I have made horror recommendations with classics like Elfen Lied and Corpse Party too. However, this year I decided I wanted to feature newer anime horrors. Ones that have not had the chance to develop their following and reputations My oldest recommendation in this post is from 2021. Most of them were released this year.

If you want more classic horror anime, check out 12 Fan Recommended Halloween Anime and 5 Horrors for Halloween.

5 New Horror Anime to Watch this Halloween

My list below has something for everyone. So, don’t miss out on the terror; click on the anime titles or scroll down to read more about each one and get all the information you need to add them to your watch list. Get ready for a Halloween anime marathon that will haunt your dreams!

1. Dark Gathering
2. X&Y
3. Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre
4. Housing Complex C
5. Mieruko-chan

Dark Gathering

• Episodes: 25
• Duration to watch: +/- 10 hours
• Studio: OLM
• Source: Manga
• Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Shounen
• Release year: 2023 (Currently airing)

Keitaro Gentoga was so scared of ghosts that he locked himself away in his room after a nasty run-in with one that resulted in him and a friend being cursed. But he couldn’t stay isolated forever, and slowly he got back to normal life and started working as a tutor for an intelligent kid called Yayoi Houzuki. Yayoi is more than just smart. She also has a special gift for seeing spirits and has an obsession with finding the evil ghost that took her mother away. She is dead set on dragging Keitaro into her spooky world of creepy supernatural things, and he just wants a normal life; well as normal as a cursed boy who attracts spirits can have.

X&Y

• Alt title: Aiyou de Mishi, Aiyou’s Secret Room
• Episodes: 16
• Duration to watch: +/- 4 hours
• Studio: Ling San Wu Donghua
• Source: Manhua
• Genres: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Psychological Thriller
• Release year: 2023

Yan Yuechu went back to his hometown for work and made some new friends at his job. One day, he visits the XY Escape Room. While there, he feels a strong attraction to the owner, Xu Aiyou. After the first escape room, he starts to see weird escape room illusions. As he gets closer to Xu Aiyou, more and more things start to go wrong for him and his friends. While he tries to solve and escape the escape rooms to find out who was behind all this, he realises he is also uncovering the truth about his missing memories.

Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre

• Alt title: Itou Junji: Maniac 
• Episodes: 12
• Duration to watch: +/- 4 hours, 40 minutes
• Studio: Studio DEEN
• Source: Manga
• Genres: Horror, Psychological, Supernatural, Thriller
• Release year: 2023

Itou Junji: Maniac is based on 20 amazing stories from Ito’s huge collection of works, all about madness. These include: The Strange Hikizuri Siblings, where a family has a weird obsession with their hair; The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel, where a man finds a creepy tunnel under his house; Ice Cream Bus, where a boy gets on a bus that serves ice cream with a sinister twist; Hanging Balloon, where people are hunted by giant balloons with their own faces; Four x Four Walls, where a woman is trapped in a room with four walls that have eyes and mouths; and more.

Housing Complex C

• Alt title: C Danchi
• Episodes: 4
• Duration to watch: +/- 1 hour 30 minutes
• Studio: Akatsuki 
• Source: none
• Genres: Horror, Psychological, Supernatural, Mystery
• Release year: 2022

Kimi is a cheerful girl who lives in a cheap seaside housing complex in Kurosaki. Her days are happy and relaxed as she spends time with her fellow residents. However, strange things start to happen. Yuri and her parents are new to the housing complex. Seeing a similarly aged girl, Yuri forms a friendship with Kimi and together, the girls try to uncover the mystery behind the flat and the strange and disturbing happenings that have begun.

Mieruko-chan

• Alt title: The Girl That Sees “Them”  
• Episodes: 12
• Duration to watch: +/- 4 hours 30 minutes 
• Studio: Passione
• Source: Manga
• Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Horror, Slice of Life, Psychological, Supernatural
• Release year: 2021

Miko has a problem. She can suddenly see horrible creatures that no one else can. She knows she must not react to their presence. Must not acknowledge their existence. She wants to run away, but all she can do is pretend that they are not there! But how can she act normal, protect her friends and family, and live her life when she is constantly surrounded by scary monsters that no one else can see?

Which horror anime will you be marathoning? Will it be from this list on new horror anime, or do you have other spine-tingling recommendations in mind?