When adapting Dead Boy Detectives for television, co-showrunner and producer Steve Yockey vowed to adhere only to ghost rules, meaning anything thats spooky, supernatural and frightfully fun can happen.

I really wanted to make The Hardy Boys on acid, Yockey told HuffPost. And thats what I think we did.

Released on Netflix last week, Dead Boy Detectives is based on two characters created by Neil Gaiman for DC Comics The Sandman. The eight-episode series follows Edwin Payne (played by George Rexstrew ) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri ), two British teens who died under unusual circumstances at a London boarding school: Edwin in 1916 and Charles in 1989.

Though separated in death by seven decades, Edwin and Charles become acquainted as ghosts and, together, decide to skip the afterlife in favor of becoming spirit sleuths dedicated to solving mysteries involving ax murderers, wicked witches and bloodthirsty sea monsters, among other fearsome foes. The two complement one another nicely, with Edwin describing himself as the brains to Charles brawn in their otherworldly operation.