Five Current and Cult TV Favourites That Will Transport You To a Very Different World – Concrete Playground

Only one show on TV starts in a haunted house, then jumps to an asylum for the criminally insane, then follows a coven of descendants of the Salem witch trials. And, from there, it also steps inside a travelling freak show, explores the twisted history of an LA hotel, gets caught up in a small-town cult, sees the Antichrist unleash the apocalypse and sets a serial killer upon an 80s-era summer camp as well. That series: American Horror Story. Every season, it tells a different story, anthology-style. The creepy details change, as do the narratives and characters, but the eeriness remains.

Also staying the same: many of the faces seen in American Horror Story’s tales, including Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy,…