Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Season 1

In 1991, xenophobic, right-wing veteran Nick purchases the rights to a late old man's abandoned storage room lot. He refuses Mexican immigrant Amelia's pleas to let her recover her familial belongings from her lot, which was mistakenly sold to him. Desperate for funds to pay a debt, he searches for valuable items. He finds an Austrian séance table and three volumes on demon summoning. A broker contacts a buyer, Roland, who urges him to find the rare fourth volume. While searching the lot, they f

In interwar Salem, Massachusetts, Masson is a grave robber in desperate need of funds. His attempts have been thwarted by terrifying rats, who rapidly swarm and remove any valuables held by recently buried corpses. When his financial situation becomes dire, he learns of a recently buried aristocrat and attempts to unearth him and his valuables. Masson unearths the coffin to find the rats have already dug to the coffin and dragged the corpse underground. Crawling in after them, he encounters an e

In 1978, Sheriff Nate Craven asks friend Dr. Carl Winters to perform autopsies on several dead miners. One of them, Joe Allen, caused an explosion while carrying a mysterious object. As Winters records his autopsies, Allen's body reanimates, revealing that it is inhabited by an alien parasite. Allen encountered the parasite by chance and unsuccessfully attempted to destroy it. The parasites have no sensory organs and use their hosts for pleasure and nourishment. They revel in stimulating their h

Stacey, an awkward, unattractive woman, longs to be accepted and beautiful like the women in her workplace. After being invited to her coworker's Christmas party, Stacey is given a popular skincare lotion called Alo Glo, while her taxidermy Secret Santa gift is poorly received. Despondent, she tries the lotion and develops a rash. At home, her husband fails to reassure her that she is perfect just the way she is. After receiving a direct message from the creator of the lotion through her TV, she

In 1909, art student Will Thurber from Arkham becomes friends with Richard Pickman, whose horrific works of art mesmerize him. Seventeen years later, Thurber, now a museum curator, remains enthralled but disturbed by Pickman's works, suffering horrific dreams. Pickman, now a successful artist, visits Thurber; his wife, Rebecca; and young son, James. When James also has terrifying dreams after seeing Pickman's work, Thurber confronts Pickman. Pickman begs him to come to his home and see his works

As a child, following the death of his ailing twin sister Epperley, Walter Gilman witnesses her spirit being dragged away to an otherworldly forest. As a grown man in 1933, he's a member of the Spiritualist Society who seeks to cross into the other side in hopes of saving Epperley. He rents a room in the house of an executed witch, Keziah Mason, and takes an Indigenous drug named Liquid Gold designed to take him to the Forest of Lost Souls. After several attempts, he locates his sister and bring

In 1979, wealthy recluse Lionel Lassiter invites musician Randall Roth, astrophysicist Charlotte Xie (who studies extraterrestrial life), best-selling author Guy Landon, and psychic Targ Reinhhard to his home for a special viewing, intended to help them all expand their consciousness. Flanked by his physician Dr. Zahra, he encourages them all to take a mixture of cocaine and a custom drug made by Zahra, to place them on the same wavelength. He takes them to a secret room containing an otherworld

In 1951, Nancy and Edgar Bradley are ornithologists studying bird murmurations. After their daughter Ava dies, they go to a remote country home to continue their studies and get away from their grief. Nancy sees ghostly apparitions of a crying boy and a screaming angry woman. Edgar believes these visions are from the strain of her grief. Nancy learns that the former owner, Claudette, drowned her son and committed suicide after her husband left her for another woman. During a fight over these vis