Recap / American Horror Story

aka: American Horror Story Asylum

American Horror Story is an anthology horror series, with its seasons containing different characters and settings, with loose connections in between. The show has run on FX from 2011 to present.

Unmarked spoilers are present throughout the subpages as well as some of the synopsises below. Read at your own risk.

Season 1 (Murder House)

Season 1: Murder House (October 5, 2011 – December 21, 2011)

♫ Tainted love
Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease... ♫

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1. "Pilot"
2. "Home Invasion"
3. "Murder House"
4. "Halloween, Part 1"
5. "Halloween, Part 2"
6. "Piggy Piggy"
7. "Open House"
8. "Rubber Man"
9. "Spooky Little Girl"
10. "Smoldering Children"
11. "Birth"
12. "Afterbirth"

Season 2 (Asylum)

Season 2: Asylum (October 17, 2012 – January 23, 2013)

♫ When I grew up and fell in love
I asked my sweetheart, what lies ahead
Will we have rainbows, day after day
Here's what my sweetheart said: "Que sera, sera..." ♫

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1. "Welcome to Briarcliff"
2. "Tricks and Treats"
3. "Nor'easter"
4. "I Am Anne Frank, Part 1"
5. "I Am Anne Frank, Part 2"
6. "The Origins of Monstrosity"
7. "Dark Cousin"
8. "Unholy Night"
9. "The Coat Hanger"
10. "The Name Game"
11. "Spilt Milk"
12. "Continuum"
13. "Madness Ends"

Season 3 (Coven)

Season 3: Coven (October 9, 2013 – January 29, 2014)

♫ There is a house in New Orleans
They call The Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And God I know I'm one. ♫

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1. "Bitchcraft"
2. "Boy Parts"
3. "The Replacements"
4. "Fearful Pranks Ensue"
5. "Burn, Witch. Burn!"
6. "The Axeman Cometh"
7. "The Dead"
8. "The Sacred Taking"
9. "Head"
10. "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks"
11. "Protect the Coven"
12. "Go to Hell"
13. "The Seven Wonders"

Season 4 (Freak Show)

Season 4: Freak Show (October 8, 2014 – January 21, 2015)

♫ I'm going to the carnival... ♫

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1. "Monsters Among Us"
2. "Massacres and Matinees"
3. "Edward Mordrake, Part 1"
4. "Edward Mordrake, Part 2"
5. "Pink Cupcakes"
6. "Bullseye"
7. "Test of Strength"
8. "Blood Bath"
9. "Tupperware Party Massacre"
10. "Orphans"
11. "Magical Thinking"
12. "Show Stoppers"
13. "Curtain Call"

Season 5 (Hotel)

Season 5: Hotel (October 7, 2015 – January 13, 2016)

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1. "Checking In"
2. "Chutes And Ladders"
3. "Mommy"
4. "Devil's Night"
5. "Room Service"
6. "Room 33"
7. "Flicker"
8. "The Ten Commandments Killer"
9. "She Wants Revenge"
10. "She Gets Revenge"
11. "Battle Royale"
12. "Be Our Guest"

Season 6 (Roanoke)

Season 6: Roanoke (September 14, 2016 – November 16, 2016)

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1. "Chapter 1"
2. "Chapter 2"
3. "Chapter 3"
4. "Chapter 4"
5. "Chapter 5"
6. "Chapter 6"
7. "Chapter 7"
8. "Chapter 8"
9. "Chapter 9"
10. "Chapter 10"

Season 7 (Cult)

Season 7: Cult (September 5, 2017 – November 14, 2017)

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1. "Election Night"
2. "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"
3. "Neighbors from Hell"
4. "11/9"
5. "Holes"
6. "Mid-Western Assassin"
7. "Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins: Scumbag"
8. "Winter of Our Discontent"
9. "Drink the Kool-Aid"
10. "Charles (Manson) in Charge"
11. "Great Again"

Season 8 (Apocalypse)

Season 8: Apocalypse (September 12, 2018 – November 14, 2018)

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1. "The End"
2. "The Morning After"
3. "Forbidden Fruit"
4. "Could It Be... Satan?"
5. "Boy Wonder"
6. "Return to Murder House"
7. "Traitor"
8. "Sojourn"
9. "Fire and Reign"
10. "Apocalypse Then"

Season 9 (1984)

Season 9: 1984 (September 18, 2019 – November 13, 2019)

♫ It happened one summer, it happened one time... ♫

1. "Camp Redwood"
2. "Mr Jingles"
3. "Slashdance"
4. "True Killers"
5. "Red Dawn"
6. "Episode 100"
7. "The Lady in White"
8. "Rest in Pieces"
9. "Final Girl"

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Season 10 (Double Feature)

Season 10: Double Feature (August 25, 2021 – October 22, 2021)

Red Tide

1. "Cape Fear"
2. "Pale"
3. "Thirst"
4. "Blood Buffet"
5. "Gaslight"
6. "Winter Kills"

Death Valley

1. "Take Me to Your Leader"
2. "Inside"
3. "Blue Moon"
4. "The Future Perfect"

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Season 11 (NYC)

Season 11: NYC (October 19, 2022 – November 16, 2022)

1. "Something's Coming"
2. "Thank You for Your Service"
3. "Smoke Signals"
4. "Black Out"
5. "Bad Fortune"
6. "The Body"
7. "The Sentinel"
8. "Fire Island"
9. "Requiem 1981/1987 Part One"
10. "Requiem 1981/1987 Part Two"

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Season 12 (Delicate)

Season 12: Delicate (September 20, 2023 – present)

1. "Multiply Thy Pain"
2. "Rockabye"
3. "When the Bough Breaks"
4. "Vanishing Twin"
5. "Preech"
6. "Opening Night"
7. "Ave Hestia"
8. "Little Gold Man"
9. "The Auteur"

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