American horror story seasons in order

The 2011 horror anthology series "American Horror Story," co-created by Brad Falchuk and TV juggernaut Ryan Murphy, is presented in a novel fashion.

Each one of its 12 seasons stands as a wholly independent 10-to-13-episode miniseries, with each one featuring a unique set of characters and a new timeframe/location (in the U.S., of course).

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Murphy and Falchuk select a traditionally Halloween-y horror topic or premise — a haunted house, vampires, a witch coven, a circus sideshow, extraterrestrials, cultists — and then spin it out in their own sensationalistic idiom.

"American Horror Story" tends to be salacious and stylized, and its sheer variety have kept audiences coming back for years.

Note: "American Horror Story" is not to be confused with the 2021 series "American Horror Stories," which is actually a spinoff.

"Stories" is a more traditional "Tales from the Crypt"-like anthology show, with each episode featuring an original story and its own unique cast of actors. Only a few episodes of "Stories" connect directly to

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