American Horror Story Season 8 Theme Revealed And — Surprise! — It's A Crossover

Surprise, bitch: The American Horror Story crossover season you've been waiting for is finally happening. On Thursday (June 14), co-creator Ryan Murphy reported that the forthcoming eighth installment of the FX anthology series would case in point be the long-awaited crossover between two fan-favorite seasons, Murder House and Coven.


Murphy has hinted at each season's connective tissue with thinly veiled references and ambiguous clues since Season 2's Asylum. However back in 2016 the prolific producer confirmed that he had been working on a crossover season with "characters from Murder House and characters from Coven with each other describing it as unconventional


In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Murphy promised that several fan favorites" will return for Season 8, which leaves the door open for the OG Supreme of AHS, Jessica Lange, to saunter back onto our television screens. Confirmed cast for the eighth season include Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Cheyenne Jackson, Billy Eichner, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, and screen legend Joan Collins, who's joining the AHS cast in the role of Peters's grandmother.


It's unclear whether this is a sequel to both seasons or set sometime in the past, seeing as AHS often likes to play around with timelines. The obvious connection is that both seasons share well known characters with the surname Montgomery. For seasons, fans have speculated that Miss Robichaux's wild-child witch, Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts), was somehow connected to Murder House’s well known "surgeon to the stars," Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross), given their names and proximity to Los Angeles. Yet nothing concrete has been traditional between the two characters.


Also, as par for the course for American Horror Story, both seasons also featured star-studded ghosts, including the complete Harmon family member by the end of Murder House. Though, Murphy did leave fans with one cryptic clue: "Witches rule this September." So whichever happens, expect at least one Balenciaga reference.


Here's hoping the crossover season will mark the return of Peters's Tate Langdon and Connie Britton's fabulous Vivien Harmon. Let the speculation start!