'The Burning Girls' Trailer Features a Small Town with a Dark Curse

Although American audiences ilkely won't get to see the series for themselves until next year, the first trailer for Paramount+ U.K. series The Burning Girls is peak spooky season vibes, full of encroaching shadows, creepy dolls, ghostly figures, and dark threats.

An adaptation of the C.J. Tudor novel of the same name, The Burning Girls follows the story of a village haunted by its dark and turbulent history, which involves multiple disturbing deaths and disappearances. Five hundred years ago, a group of eight Protestant martyrs, including two young girls, were burned at the stake for their faith. Thirty years ago, two teenagers mysteriously disappeared from the village without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish hung himself in the nave of his church.

Such a history has naturally left Chapel Croft rife with strange beliefs and mysterious traditions, a place that's reluctant to trust outsiders and that actively believes in the supernatural. One of the town's odder annual traditions involves commemorating those original deaths by setting fire to twig dolls known as "burning girls," and there are consistent rumors of a pair of apparitions who are said to appear to those in trouble.