List of characters from the television series American Horror Story

“ American Horror Story ” is an American horror series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchak in the anthology genre, which means that each season is different from the previous one: it tells a different story, has different characters, has its beginning, middle and end. So, the first season, “ The Killer House, ” tells the story of a family who moved to Los Angeles , California in 2011, to an old house where his deceased tenants still live. The second season, " Mental Hospital " , takes place in 1964 in Massachusetts , in a psychiatric clinic for the mentally ill. The third season, Sabbat , takes place in 2013 in New Orleans , Louisiana , and tells the story of modern witches. The fourth season, " Freak Show " , tells the story of the hard life of circus freaks at sunset glory in 1952 in a small town in Florida . The fifth season, " Hotel " , shows the history of the owners, workers and guests of the dark and mysterious Hotel Cortez in the center of Los Angeles in 2015. In the sixth season, “ Roanoke ” , we observe the story of a young family in 2014–2016, which is told through the TV series “My Nightmare in Roanoke” and “Roanoke: Three Days in Hell” . “ Cult ” , the seventh season, takes place in 2016 and shows the story of citizens of a small town in Michigan during the terror of the mysterious cult after the election of the President of the United States .

Despite the anthology genre, there are characters in the series that appear in several seasons at the same time. Billie Dean Howard ( Sarah Paulson ), Marcy ( Christine Estabrook ) and Charles Montgomery ( Matt Ross ) appear at the Killer House and Hotel . Sister Mary Eunice Mackey ( Lily Rabyb ), Pepper ( Naomi Grossman ) and Dr. Arthur Arden ( James Cromwell , as Arden in old age, John Cromwell, as Arden in her youth) appear in Psychological Hospital and Freak Show . Quinny ( Gaburi Sidibe ) is found in the Sabbath and Hotel . Lana Winters ( Sarah Paulson ) is featured in Mental Hospital and Roanoke , and she is also mentioned in Cult . Pepper, along with Jimmy Darling ( Evan Peters ), Meep (Ben Wolfe) and clown Twist ( John Carroll Lynch ) appear in Freak Show and Cult .