"The idea behind Masters of Horror was to have 13 horror directors, direct 13 short films of each 60 minutes. This films covers large parts of the horror spectrum, and are made in style of the particular director. Several of the episodes are adapted of short stories, while the rest are original creations."@en . "The idea behind Masters of Horror was to have 13 horror directors, direct 13 short films of each 60 minutes. This films covers large parts of the horror spectrum, and are made in style of the particular director. Several of the episodes are adapted of short stories, while the rest are original creations."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Masters of Horror"@en . . "The idea sprung from a series of dinners that Garris had held with other horror film directors, and the satisfying experience and the directors' admiration of each other's works lead Garris to create this series in 2005. The basic idea was a series of one-hour films, each directed by a well-known horror director. The series featured contributions from directors as diverse as Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Takashi Miike, and received wide critical acclaim. The episodes, in order of broadcast, and the tropes they contained were as follows:"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "The idea sprung from a series of dinners that Garris had held with other horror film directors, and the satisfying experience and the directors' admiration of each other's works lead Garris to create this series in 2005. The basic idea was a series of one-hour films, each directed by a well-known horror director. The series featured contributions from directors as diverse as Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter and Takashi Miike, and received wide critical acclaim. The series ran for two seasons on Showtime. Fear Itself, another Genre Anthology in the same format and created by the same team, premiered on NBC in 2008, and was cancelled after its first season. Another similar show called Masters of Science Fiction (again from the same creators) premiered on ABC in 2007, but only ran six episodes before being cancelled. Masters of Italian Horror is also in the works, focusing solely on Italian directors. IDW Publishing is also adapting several of the episodes as comic books. The episodes, in order of broadcast, and the tropes they contained were as follows:"@en .