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15	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/american_horror_stories.png]]
16	[[caption-width-right:350:It's like American Horror Story, but, like, not.]]
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18	''American Horror Stories'' is a horror anthology series created by Creator/RyanMurphy & Brad Falchuk, and a spinoff of the long-running ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' on Creator/{{FX\|Networks}}.
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20	In contrast to its parent series, which utilizes a seasonal format, ''American Horror Stories'' is episodic in nature and features self-contained stories, but some may be thematically or directly linked to existing aspects of ''AHS'' lore. The two-part premiere, "Rubber (Wo)man", for example hinges on a {{callback}} to the infamous Rubber Man from ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse Murder House]]'', which was [[MascotVillain heavily used]] in marketing materials for that season.
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22	As with prior entries in the franchise, ''Stories'' also features recurring cast members returning in new roles, with the likes of Creator/MattBomer, Creator/BillieLourd, and Creator/JohnCarrollLynch appearing in season one.
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24	''American Horror Stories'' premiered on July 15th, 2021 as an "FX on Creator/{{Hulu}}" original. A second season was announced shortly before the premiere of ''[[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryDoubleFeature Double Feature]]'', and premiered on July 21, 2022.
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26	[[https://youtu.be/_oyH8Rd6IOM Season 1 Trailer.]]
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29	!! ''American Horror Stories'' contains examples of:
30	* AmericanTitle: Just like its parent series, albeit plural now.
31	* AnyoneCanDie: Even more so than its parent series, the episodic nature of ''Stories'' means just about any character can die as they're not meant to fill out an entire season of storylines.
32	* BadSanta: "The Naughty List" features one, as portrayed by Creator/DannyTrejo.
33	* BookEnds: The first season begins and ends with episodes set in the Murder House.
34	* BrownNote: Similar to Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Cell}}'', the film ''Rabbit Rabbit'' turns anyone who watches it into AxCrazy killers. Of course, this was [[MadArtist the director's]] intent.
35	* ContinuityCreep: Aspects established in the parent series may be spun-off into episodes of this series, as is the case with series premiere episode "Rubber (Wo)man", serving as a sequel of sorts to ''Murder House''.
36	* CouchGag: The titles change every episode. Except for the first two.
37	* DownerEnding: In "Drive In", Chad and Kelley celebrate their victory with GladToBeAliveSex, but [[spoiler: they miss the fact that ''Rabbit Rabbit'' has been released on Netflix and the episode ends with a shot of Los Angeles descending into terror.]]
38	* GenreAnthology: One of the horror genre like its parent series, but with a focus on individualized, self-contained episodes rather than season-long tales.
39	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In "Drive In", Tipper Gore banned further screenings of ''Rabbit Rabbit'' years prior after the film caused the audience to massacre each other.
40	* IdiotBall: In "Rubber(Wo)man Pt 1", a seemingly unposssessed Scarlett thinks nothing of putting on the S&M gimp suit, picking up a knife, and going to confront her fathers, even though they just lectured her about being into S&M porn. Then Michael finds the discarded suit and a pool of blood, and he and Troy either dismiss it as nothing or think Scarlett is in "her time of the month". [[spoiler: Even if they're all possesssed, Grant's patients and staff haven't t noticed that she has missed her sessions and disappeared.]]
41	* MascotVillain: The Rubber Woman is featured heavily in marketing materials for the first season.
42	* RecursiveCanon: ''Game Over'' is set in a world where ''American Horror Story'' is an in-universe show, but where the characters, locations, and events of the show are still real...[[MindScrew unless they're parts set within an in-universe unofficial ''AHS'' video game, except when they aren't and the events that were thought to just be part of the game really did happen, with the characters acting like it's simultaneously both real and fictional even though that contradicts which characters are alive or dead at the end.]]
43	* SpinOff: One of ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory''.
44	* TakeThat: The sequence in "The Naughty List" when the Bro House influencers film and callously comment on a man committing suicide to get more views and subscribers is a reference to [[https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/youtuber-logan-paul-sued-over-suicide-forest-video-n1252610 a 2018 incident]] in which influencer Logan Paul, on a tourist trip to Japan with his entourage, filmed the body of a person who had committed suicide in Aokigahara Forest and uploaded it to Website/YouTube, causing widespread backlash. The episode as a whole is a skewering of influencer culture in general, in particular the pursuit of money and followers at the cost of human decency.

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