American Horror Story: Murder House (Season 1)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 12
Vintage: October 5 – December 21, 2011
Plot Summary: An anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, an enigmatic hotel and a sinister farmhouse in Roanoke, North Carolina.
American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 13
Vintage: October 17, 2012 – January 23, 2013
Plot Summary: The second season follows the patients, doctors, and nuns who occupy Briarcliff Mental Institution in Massachusetts in 1964.
American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 13
Vintage: October 9, 2013 – January 29, 2014
Plot Summary: The third season follows a Coven of Salem descendants who reside within Miss Robichaux’s Academy in New Orleans.
American Horror Story: Freak Show (Season 4)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 13
Vintage: October 8, 2014 – January 21, 2015
Plot Summary: The fourth season is set in Jupiter, Florida in 1952 and follows the lives of a troupe of people belonging to one of the last remaining freak shows of its time.
American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 12
Vintage: October 7, 2015 – January 13, 2016
Plot Summary: The fifth season of American Horror Story focuses on the Downtown Los Angeles Hotel Cortez which has been recently purchased by a New York fashion designer, Will Drake (Cheyenne Jackson).
American Horror Story: Roanoke (Season 6)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 10
Vintage: September 14, 2016 – November 16, 2016
Plot Summary: Presented as a paranormal documentary series titled My Roanoke Nightmare, the story follows a married couple whose experiences are reenacted by actors. Shelby and Matt Miller move from Los Angeles, California to a house in Roanoke Island, North Carolina following a brutal assault which left Matt temporarily hospitalized and caused Shelby to have a miscarriage. As soon as the couple settles into their new home, strange and paranormal occurrences begin to haunt them.
American Horror Story: Cult (Season 7)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 11
Vintage: September 5, 2017 – present
Plot Summary: Ally (Sarah Paulson) and Ivy Mayfair-Richards (Alison Pill) are a married couple with a son named Oz (Cooper Dodson) who live in the fictitious city of Brookfield Heights, Michigan. Ally suffers from several phobias including coulrophobia, haemophobia, and trypophobia, which intensify after Donald Trump wins the 2016 election. She often speaks with her psychiatrist, Dr. Rudy Vincent (Cheyenne Jackson), whose sister Winter (Billie Lourd), having worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, is devastated by Trump’s victory. Winter’s estranged and manipulative brother Kai (Evan Peters) rejoices at the election results and is enticed to pursue political power by running for a seat on city council.
Brookfield Heights is afflicted by a string of murders executed by masked clowns. Ally struggles to ascertain whether targeted attacks on her are real or merely hallucinations manifested by her phobias. Ally’s paranoia and turmoil, escalated by suspicious activities perpetrated by new neighbors Harrison (Billy Eichner) and Meadow Wilton (Leslie Grossman), hinder her relationships with her wife and her son. The violent actions of the clowns solidify Kai’s campaign rhetoric. Local news reporter Beverly Hope’s (Adina Porter) intensive coverage alerts the public of the brutality befalling Brookfield Heights.
Depictions of true cults, including the Peoples Temple and the Manson Family, mirror the affairs of a fledging Brookfield Heights extremist group comprised of individuals fed up with the political climate of the United States.
American Horror Story: Apocalypse (Season 8)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 10
Vintage: September 12, 2018 – November 14, 2018
Plot Summary: Apocalypse takes place in the West Coast of the United States in the near future. Following a nuclear blast that wipes out the world, Outpost 3, an underground bunker, is constructed in order to shelter specific survivors with strong genetic makeup. Wilhemina Venable (Sarah Paulson) and Miriam Mead (Kathy Bates) both command the bunker, dispensing torture towards those who reside there.
American Horror Story: 1984 (Season 9)
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA
Running Time: 60 minutes per episode
Number of Episodes: 9
Vintage: September 18, 2019 – November 13, 2019
Plot Summary: The season has been described as being heavily influenced by classic horror slasher films such as Friday the 13th and Halloween .
American Horror Story: Double Feature (Season 10)
American Horror Story: NYC (Season 11)
