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American Horror Story is an anthology horror series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for FX, where each season is a self-contained miniseries — a different setting, a different cast, a different story with its own beginning, middle, and end. Settings range from a haunted house to an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, Roanoke, a cult, and the apocalypse. Some seasons draw loosely from true events. If this is your taste, you want horror that commits to a complete story each time and never overstays its premise.
About American Horror Story
American Horror Story (AHS) is an American horror anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX. The first installment in the American Story media franchise, seasons of AHS are mostly conceived as self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters in a new setting within the same fictional universe, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events.
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Films like American Horror Story
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American Horror House
On Halloween, ghosts overrun a sorority house as a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
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An American Haunting
Family secrets surface around a haunting; based on the only US case where a spirit caused a man's death.
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American Gothic
Stranded on a remote island, six friends find shelter with an eccentric, menacing family.
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American Mary
A medical student struggling with tuition is drawn into a shady underground body-modification world.
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Haunt
An extreme haunted house promises to feed on visitors' darkest fears — then the night turns deadly.
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American Nightmares
Two voyeurs hacked by storytellers who spin seven moralistic horror vignettes — an anthology-within-an-anthology.
Games like American Horror Story
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Resident evil 7 Banned Footage Vol.1
Trapped with the Baker family's dark secrets — footage exposing horrors from a basement and a locked bedroom.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me
A stand-alone branching cinematic horror game, easy to play in short sessions alone or with friends.
Books to read after American Horror Story
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Ghosts
Thirty modern masters of fright and fantasy explore both sides of the veil in this ghost anthology.
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The Best Horror of The Year volume 4
Twenty-one horror stories published in 2011, with an essay surveying the year's genre achievements.
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Favorite Scary Stories of American Children (Grades 3-6)
Twenty-three spooky tales from varied ethnic traditions, selected by children as their favourites.
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More scary mysteries for sleep-overs
Short stories with frightening twists, including "The Money Pit," "Bloodlines," and "Bad Attitude."
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Diary of a haunting
After a high-profile divorce, a girl moves to a small Idaho town where the new house harbours dread.
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The thing on the doorstep and other weird stories
Weird fiction from H.P. Lovecraft exploring what lurks at the edges of ordinary perception.
More series like American Horror Story
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American Horror Stories
Stand-alone anthology episodes exploring horror myths, legends, and lore — a direct spin-off of AHS.
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A Haunting
Dramatised true hauntings where tragedy, suicide, and murder leave psychic impressions on the living.
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American Crime Story
An anthology series centred on history's most famous criminal investigations, one season per case.
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Urban Horror
Dread drawn from the daily, under-the-surface crises of urban life rather than supernatural forces.
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The Terror
A chilling anthology series of people in terrifying situations drawn from true historical events.
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Hammer House of Horror
Each self-contained episode cycles through witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship, and serial killers.
Frequently asked
What should I watch after American Horror Story?
American Horror Stories delivers stand-alone episodes set in the same universe. For anthology drama with a different tone, American Crime Story applies the self-contained season structure to famous criminal investigations, and The Terror does the same with true historical events as its source material.
What games are like American Horror Story?
The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me is the closest match — a stand-alone branching cinematic horror story designed to be played in a single session, alone or with friends.
Why does American Horror Story feel different from other horror shows?
Each season is a fully self-contained miniseries with a fresh setting, cast, and storyline — no ongoing serialised commitment required. Some seasons draw loosely from true events, and the settings range widely: haunted houses, asylums, cults, the apocalypse. It is closer to a rotating horror anthology than a conventional series.