Random Things About How All Of American Horror Story Seasons Are Connected (21 items)

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  (#14) Murder House's Real Estate Agent Checked In To Hotel

  Back in Season 1, despicable real estate agent Marcy (Christine Estabrook) sells the titular Murder House to Patrick and Chad Warwick (Teddy Sears and Zachary Quinto), then after their brutal murder, sells it again to the Harmon family without fully disclosing the home's grisly past.

  Marcy's homophobic and racist comments, as well as her dishonesty in dealing with her clients, make it hard to feel sorry for her when she tries to broker a deal at the Hotel Cortez from Season 5 and falls prey to famished vampires.
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  (#16) The Psychic Billie Dean Howard Appears In Seasons 1 And 5

  Sarah Paulson's psychic Billie Dean Howard appears in American Horror Story's first season, where she tries to exorcise the Murder House of its many demons.

  Paulson reprised the role in Season 5's Hotel when Billie Dean Howard interviews John Lowe's ghost (Wes Bentley) for her paranormal TV show. Marsh swears her to secrecy and she makes it out of the hotel alive, which means she might just make it back for a future season....

  What's more, in Season 1, Billie Dean tells the story of a historic exorcism in - where else? Roanoke.
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  (#13) The Montgomery Family Gets Around

  Another case of Ryan Murphy reusing last names, or something more? In Season 1, surgeon Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross) was the original owner of the "murder house," which he used to perform twisted Frankenstein-like experiments while high on ether - and that's before things got really ugly.

  In Season 3, Coven, we're introduced to telekinetic starlet Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts).

  Finally, in Season 5, Hotel, Charles Montgomery reappears to perform an abortion on the Countess (Lady Gaga) - without any luck, as the fetus not only lives, but murders Montgomery's nurse.
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  (#1) Each Season Is A Different Level Of Hell

  One of the most imaginative and comprehensive American Horror Story fan theories posits that each of the seven seasons so far has represented another level of Hell as recounted in Dante's Inferno.

  This theory was originally discussed by writer Jacqueline Bircher back in 2014, but it's since been updated as new seasons have come out. Most adherents to the Dante theory map the seasons this way:

  Murder House: Limbo

  Asylum: Fraud

  Coven: Treachery

  Freak Show: Greed

  Hotel: Gluttony

  Roanoke: Wrath

  Cult: Heresy

  That means there should be two seasons left: Lust and Violence. Can it be a coincidence that AHS has been renewed through Season 9?

  There are many more clues that back this theory up scattered throughout all seven seasons, too. Even more compelling, Ryan Murphy himself coyly referenced this theory in an Instagram post.

  Of course, with any fan theory this widespread, expect some backlash: Reddit is filled with posts debunking the Dante theory, too.
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  (#15) Coven's Queenie Meets Her End At Hotel Cortez

  Queenie, the voodoo witch played by Gabourey Sidibe in Season 3, Coven, possesses powerful magic, including the ability to inflict pain on herself that then transfers to her victims, essentially turning her own body into a voodoo doll.

  Unfortunately, while Queenie can defeat any mortal, she's powerless against ghosts, which is how she winds up trapped in Season 5's Hotel Cortez. The vampiric Ramona Royale (Angela Bassett) attacks Queenie, who nearly defeats her before the ghost of James March comes to Ramona's aid and Queenie is doomed.
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  (#9) Pepper Performed In Freak Show Before Landing In Asylum

  As an infant, Pepper (Naomi Grossman) was abandoned by her family because she suffered from microcephaly, a condition that gave her an unusually small head and a range of other disabilities. She grew up in an orphanage until she was 18, when Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) adopted her into Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities in Season 4's Freak Show.

  After her companion and fellow microcephaly sufferer Salty dies, she becomes too depressed to perform with the freak show and is sent to live with her sister Rita.

  But this was not the first time Pepper appeared on American Horror Story. Pepper first appeared in Season 2 as an inmate of the Briarcliff asylum, where she was sent after supposedly murdering her disabled infant nephew. It turns out that Rita and her husband murdered the baby themselves and framed Pepper, who lacked the cognitive capacities to defend herself.

  So it seems certain that both Seasons 2 and 4 take place in the same world and on the same timeline.

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