Showtime Revisits Horror

Showtime Networks Inc. has ordered a second season of anthology series Masters of Horror, the programmer announced Tuesday.

Showtime will debut the first of 13 new one-hour episodes, to be produced by IDT Entertainment, this fall.

The first season of Masters of Horror debuted this past fall and featured horror-film legends Dario Argento (Suspiria, Opera), John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), Larry Cohen (It's Alive), Don Coscarelli (Phantasm, Bubba Ho-tep), Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), Mick Garris (Riding the Bullet, The Stand), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) William Malone (feardotcom), Lucky McKee (May) and John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) directing original one-hour films.