American Horror Story Season 4: The “Freak Show”, Real Life Couple Plays Love Interests in Upcoming New Season, Episode 1 “Monsters Among Us” Premieres Oct. 8, Plot, Cast, Spoilers

By Kara Michelle Oct 02, 2014 07:21 AM EDT

American Horror Story Season 4: The "Freak Show", Real Life Couple Plays Love Interests in Upcoming New Season, Episode 1 "Monsters Among Us" Premieres Oct. 8, Plot, Cast, Spoilers

American Horror Story is back for a fourth season, and this time it's called the "American Horror Story: Freak Show". The new season is scheduled to premiere its first episode "Monsters Among Us" on October 8. The first episode will be directed by Ryan Murphy. The upcoming new season will have a total of 13 episodes, with different directors and writers every episode.

It was confirmed recently that 'Freak Show' characters Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters) and Maggie (Emma Roberts) will be in a romantic relationship (as they also are in real life). Director Ryan Murphy said in an Entertainment Weekly interview that Maggie is a "complete con artist", and that Maggie "shows up at the [freak show] camp to help them and it ends up terribly bad". In the previous season, Emma Roberts played Madison, a powerful witch.

The upcoming season will revolve around the last remaining American freak shows in Jupiter, Florida in 1952, and the "freaks" are willing to do anything to keep their circus shows going. The episodes of the new season will center on the conflicts between the freaks and unknown evil forces.

Earlier this year, FX CEO John Landgraf shared a few details on the upcoming new season at the Television Critics Academy. He said that the new season is "a mix between the camp of "Coven" and the darkness of "Asylum"".

As for the rest of the cast members, actress Sarah Paulson will be playing a twin "freak", Bette and Dot. Kathy Bates will be Ethel, the "bearded woman" and Elsa's right hand woman. Evan Peters will be Jimmy, Ethel's son with "lobster-like hands". Emma Roberts and Denis O'Hare will be con artists. Michael Chiklis will be Dell Toledo, Ethel's former spouse. Angela Bassett will be Desiree Dupree, the women with 3 breasts. John Carroll will be Twisty, the clown. Frances Conroy will be Gloria Mott, the wealthy mother, while Finn Wittrock will be Dandy Mott, her son, in the upcoming season.

Watch the "freaks" start their show this October 8 in American Horror Story: Freak Show, the fourth season on FX at 10PM.