Designed to subvert classic horror tropes by centering on everyday people and diverse, intersectional perspectives, the half-hour series taps into universal primal fears while tackling provocative social and cultural issues that exist within our modern society.

Based on this pitch, the executives at Stage 13 greenlit the short-form, anthology web series to be made on a low-budget and distributed through the Verizon owned streaming service go90.

In an 2017 interview with NBC News[1], Miao recounted: "I pitched an anthology series inspired by two sentence horror stories that would grapple with contemporary social issues, and reflect the diversity of today's audiences," she said.

However, in May, as productions slowly started to navigate the complications of filming during the pandemic lock-down, Deadline Hollywood announced that a second season of Two Sentence Horror Stories had been ordered.

[4] Despite the difficulties of shooting during a global pandemic on a low budget, Levine reported to IndieWire in January 2021 that Season 2 had completed production without a single member of the cast or crew testing positive for COVID-19.

Though the majority of the creative team from season 2 returned, in March Deadline Hollywood announced that Queen Sugar writer and producer Lisa Morales would join as the new Showrunner of Two Sentence Horror Stories.

Kathleen Hepburn, Nimisha Mukerji, Albert Shin, DuBois Ashong, Freddy Chaves Olmos and Heidi Saman were also brought aboard to direct episodes.

“It’s the Red Wedding at WBTV/CW today.”[7] tweeted Julie Plec, co-creator of The Vampire Diaries TVLine confirmed in June 2023 that Two Sentence Horror Stories had also been one of the shows canceled by The CW.