It’s our third annual Christmas ghost story episode and we’re looking into this 2011 debut of the popular horror anthology series by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. We discuss Murphy’s mission, the show’s popularity and its contrast of trashy excessive violence and sex, with themes of mainstream, heteronormative patriarchy.

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• • American Horror Story: Murder House

Additional Resources:

• • ‘American Horror Story’: Ryan Murphy talks premiere and Rubber Man — EXCLUSIVE

• • Ryan Murphy Talks American Horror Story

• • Keetley, D. (2013). Stillborn: The Entropic Gothic of American Horror Story. Gothic Studies, 15(2), 89.

• • Nussbaum, E. (2018). Mk. Big. New Yorker, 94(13), 52.

• • ‘American Horror Story’: Ryan Murphy warns finale’s brutal labor scene is ‘the most shocking scene we’ve ever done’ — EXCLUSIVE

• • Set Pieces: The haunted house of ‘American Horror Story’

• • Jamie Brewer of ‘American Horror Story’ Is First Woman With Down Syndrome to Star in Off-Broadway Play

• • Interview with Jamie Brewer

• • What Hollywood Can Learn From TV’s Gayest Show

• • Kim, Yaeri. “Only the First of Many”: Repetition and Subversion in American Horror Story: Murder House, Feminist Studies in English Literature, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2014 Available from:“Only the First of Many”: Repetition and Subversion in American Horror Story: Murder House [accessed Dec 16 2018].

• • Buyers of $3.2M ‘Murder House’ Haunted by ‘American Horror Story’ Fans, Lawsuit Says

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