TV SERIES · 2011–present · USA
American Horror Story
- Created by
- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
- Network
- FX
- Seasons
- 13
- Episodes
- 145
- Studio
- Ryan Murphy Television, Brad Falchuk Teley-vision, 20th Century Fox Television
75 archived facts 6 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Oct 2026
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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13 Facts From the Making of American Horror Story
- #002
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk started developing American Horror Story before Murphy's Fox series Glee went into production.
- #004
Murphy said he wanted to move in the opposite direction from his previous work, which led him to create American Horror Story.
- #006
Murphy described his path from Nip/Tuck to Glee as making a challenging, dark project a natural next step, noting that he and Falchuk had long loved horror.
- #008
Falchuk said he was drawn to giving the horror genre a different angle, and that the creators' main goal for American Horror Story was to scare viewers and leave them slightly off balance.
- #011
Dante Di Loreto was announced as executive producer of the project.
- #013
Production on the series began in April 2011.
- #016
American Horror Story was planned from the beginning by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk as a series in which each season would tell a different story.
- #018
After the first-season finale of American Horror Story aired, Ryan Murphy discussed plans to change the cast and location for the second season.
- #022
In November 2012, FX chief executive John Landgraf described American Horror Story's format as an anthological series of miniseries with a repertory cast, calling it groundbreaking, wildly successful and likely trendsetting.
- #029
According to Ryan Murphy, the story for American Horror Story is devised before the characters.
- #038
According to Ryan Murphy, the season being developed after Hotel was described as very different, not smaller but less opulent, more rogue and more dark.
- #041
The house from the first season is a real location at 1120 Westchester Place in Los Angeles, California, known as the Rosenheim Mansion. It was built in 1908 by architect Alfred Rosenheim as his own residence; Rosenheim was one of Los Angeles's most influential architects in the early 1900s. The house scenes in the show's pilot were filmed at the Rosenheim Mansion, after which some of the home's interiors were replicated on a set. Exteriors continue to be shot on location there.
- #048
In March 2012, Ryan Murphy revealed that American Horror Story's second season had been planned around Jessica Lange, who portrays Sister Jude, a sadistic nun running the asylum.
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