Plot Synopsis

From Executive Producers Gale Anne Hurd, Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Brett-Patrick Jenkins, Glen Morgan, Jon Halperin and Mark Mannucci, LORE is a horror anthology series that's based on the podcast of the same name. By combining documentary footage, narration, historical mixed media, and cinematic scenes, this series presents the frightening and often disturbing tales based on real people and events that have led to modern-day myths and legend, such as vampires, changelings, werewolves, seances and possessed dolls. LORE features fan-favorite episodes from the podcast, including the tale of a boy given a doll that seems to have a sinister life of its own; a family whose home appears to be inhabited by a spirit from the other side; and a German village that hunts for a murderous creature. On Friday, October 13, 2017 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, Amazon released the six-episode first season of LORE.
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The six-episode second season of LORE premiered on Friday, October 19, 2018 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT on Amazon. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the Age of Rockets, Season 2 explores the motivations of the damned and the bloody and far-reaching aftermath of that damnation. In the season debut, "Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science," 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. The new season stars Josh Bowman, Doug Bradley, Thomas Kretschmann, Paula Malcomson, Maimie McCoy, Jurgen Prochnow, Emmett Scanlan and Alicia Witt. Season 2 episodes are:

"Burke and Hare: In the Name of Science": 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. Stars Emmet Byrne, Emmett J. Scanlan and Doug Bradley

"Elizabeth Bathory: Mirror, Mirror": 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. Stars Maimie McCoy, Rosalind Eleazar and Ella Hunt

"Hinterkaifeck: Ghosts in the Attic": 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. Stars Jurgen Prochnow, Thomas Kretschmann and Susanne Wuest

"Prague Clock: The Curse of the Orloj": 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. Stars Steven Berkoff, Numan Acar and Elie Haddad

"Mary Webster: The Witch of Hadley": 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. Stars Paula Malcomson, Hebe Beardsall and Paul Rhys

"Jack Parsons: The Devil and the Divine": 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. Stars Josh Bowman and Alicia Witt