A lot of anime are very futuristic, eccentric, bizarre, etc.

When thinking about anime, not many think about the horror that can be created with these same genres in mind.

In this list of the top 10 horror anime, you will find anime that has everything a horror story should have.

10. When They Cry

This anime may seem cute at first, be it will have you hugging your pillow.

After Maebara moved to a new, quiet town of Hinamizawa, he spends most of the time in school living a carefree life playing games with friends.

It is in this town that appearances can be deceiving.

Stumbling upon some news one fateful day, he discovers a murder occurred in the very town he's in.

It is then that mysterious and horrific events begin to unfold in front of him, learning that his close friends may not be close at all.

9. Hellsing

This anime follows the story of a vampire named, Alucard, and a police woman turned vampire who works for an organization that is known as Hellsing.

Alucard's sole purpose is to search and destroy the threat of the undead and supernatural forces that seek to eliminate the Queen and the country of England.

It is when the organization discovers the remnants of a Neo-Nazi group known as the Millennium, continues to exist in reviving the Third Reich with an army of vampires.

Little do they know that he war raging on is to seek revenge on Alucard from the very beginning!

8. Parasyte (JPN: Kiseijuu)

The anime follows a 17 year-old named Shinichi Izumi, who lives in a quiet neighborhood of Tokyo.

One night, weird looking creatures begin to surface on Earth, host onto humans while taking control of their brains.

They become known as Parasytes, and they enter through the nose or ears in order to control their host.

One day, Shinichi encounters a Parasyte, but it was unable to enter his ear or nose and instead burrowed through his arm.

Preventing it from traveling further into his body, he contained it in his arm and began to restrain its influence while being able to develop a strong bond and work together.

Thus, helping Shinichi keep his untainted brain from being hosted by other Parasytes as he struggles to survive.

7. Mononoke

This anime contains a number of short horror stories that are both scary and influential.

The anime follows a character only known as the Medicine Seller, and follows a storyline similar to Mushishi.

The Medicine Seller encounters spirits called, Mononoke, and sometimes fights them to the point of destruction.

He gains knowledge by learning their name, truth, and reason for existing in the world. So he can exorcise the demon back from whence they came.

It's kind of hard to describe this anime without spoiling the series entirely, but, i'ts really worth watching!

6. Corpse Party: Tortured Souls

Even though it's a short four-episode series, This is a memorable horror anime.

The story takes place at an elementary school called, Heavenly Host, which is torn and destroyed due to occurring murders and disappearances of several staff and students of the school.

As time goes by, another school called Kisaragi Academy, is constructed on the same grounds of the Heavenly Host.

One night, a group of students begin to tell ghost stories when an earthquake begins and suddenly transports the students present at the time to another dimension.

In this dimension, Heavenly Host still exists and is haunted by ghosts of the murdered students once enrolled there.

5. Requiem from the Darkness

This iss full of crazy encounters and lots of unsettling situations that would make a normal person go insane.

The story takes place during the Bakumatsu of the Edo period where a young writer named, Monosuke, begins to do research for his next project of writing a book that contains 100 ghost stories.

While doing research for old myths and legends, he comes across a very mysterious group of three characters who call themselves the Ongyou.

This group claims to be detectives who investigate the truth behind the legends in order to bring those doing wrong to justice.

Every time Monosuke crosses paths with the Ongyou, he faces the horrible truths and must battle his morals while seeing things no one should see....

4. Tokyo Ghoul

The story of this popular horror anime follows Ken Kaneki, who survives an encounter with a woman who is later revealed to be a ghoul.

Ghouls are human-like creatures with a hunger for human flesh who hunt and devour anyone crossing their paths.

The woman critically injures Kaneki sending him to the hospital.

After undergoing surgery and recovering from the hospital, he learns that some how, he has turned into a half-human/half-ghoul.

Needing to eat human flesh in order to survive he seeks help from those like him to teach him how to deal with living as a ghoul, interact with others in the ghoul society, and how to keep his identity a secret from other humans around him.

3. Another

This anime takes place in 1972, where a student named Misaki unexpectedly died halfway through the school year.

As students and teachers were devastated by the sudden death of Misaki, they continue on with their lives believing Misaki is still alive which leads to a strange presence in the graduation photo.

Forward into time, Spring of 1998, transfer student Sakakibara meets Mei Misaki and is seemingly ignored by her classmates and teachers.

Soon, they're all caught up in a strange phenomenon where the students and their relatives begin to die in mysterious ways.

Sakakibara and Mei must find out how to survive after discovering that the killings are related to the death of Misaki in 1972.

2. Hell Girl

Taking place in many areas but mainly in the immense sea of the internet, a very special website can be found and accessed only at the stroke of midnight.

The website is know as the Jigoku Tsushin and is rumored that if someone has a grudge, all they have to do is enter a post about that person and they will soon be judged in some of the most scariest ways.

In doing so, the Jigoku Shoujo will suddenly appear and drag whoever torments you into the firey depths of hell.

All that is known about the girl is that she lives with her equally mysterious grandmother, has three magical dolls as her servants, and whenever a post on the Jigoku Tsushin moves her emotionally, she becomes the Jigoku Shoujo.

1. Ghost Stories

This series follows the life of a girl who moves with her family to the hometown of her deceased mother.

At her first day of school, her little brother, neighbor, and two others from school decide to visit an abandoned school building next to theirs to discover that it is haunted.

After experiencing several encounters with ghosts, the girl learns that her mother was responsible for sealing many of the ghosts who haunted the school and town.

The ghosts free themselves because of urbanizations that took place in the surrounding areas and are now terrorizing the school and town once again.

The girl's mother left her book of exorcisms with instructions on how to exorcise the ghosts. What would happen then?

(source: honeyfeed)