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AMERICAN HORROR STORY The premiere season of FX series American Horror Story was a gift to television viewers everywhere this holiday season. In a time where whimsical shows such as Modern Family and Glee reign supreme, American Horror Story quenched the bloodlust of audiences, and, surprisingly enough, they did so without one mention of the vampire phenomena that at this point may be considered overused and frankly, just plain boring.

Throughout the 12-episode season, we follow the lives of the Harmon’s, a family whose recent turmoil (a miscarriage and infidelity on the father, Ben’s, part) cause the threesome (including mother, Vivien and daughter, Violet), to move to a restored mansion in California as an attempt to escape their problems. The mansion, however, is haunted, and is locally known as “the Murder House” because of its unusually gruesome history. Throughout the season it is made clear that if you die on the property, your soul remains on the property, and you are able to walk freely and appear human as long as you’re in the house. However, because these apparitions are trapped in this house many of them have a severe case of cabin fever.

One of the few flaws of the series is the sheer number of ghosts. The spirits include, but are most definitely not limited to: a disfigured man in the attic, the victim of the infamous Black Dahlia murder, a promiscuous housemaid named Moira, Ben’s former mistress, a teenage sociopath, Tate, who takes a liking to Violet, and by the end of the