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Having appeared in both Freak Show and Cult, John Carroll Lynch's Twisty the Clown immediately comes to mind — could the killer clown be a little more mortal than we thought? Speaking of Cult, the clown imagery in the teaser could also be a connection back to the season where clown phobia played a prominent[...]

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Throw a cult of murdering clowns (possibly); the fascist rise to power of Evan Peters's Kai Anderson (definitely); a woman (Sarah Paulson) who's hallucinating clowns (maybe); and a young and in-danger-from-every-direction Oz (Cooper Dodson) into the mix, and you'll see that Murphy's looking to get a lot done this season. It says something when you find[...]

Lynch's Twisty was a particularly tragic and horrific tale: run out of his first love, the circus, by false accusations of child molestation as a young man, he would suffer a series of personal and professional failures that would drive him to a failed suicide-by-shotgun attempt. With a disturbing new "mission," Twisty the Clown began abducting[...]

We even get out first looks at Billie Lourd's Winter and Alison Pill's Ivy along the way. Oh…and did I mention the spirit of Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch) still lives-on? All of the unpleasant ingredients you need to start trouble…or as Kai says it: "If you get people scared enough, they will set the world[...]

If we're reading the tea leaves of Ryan Murphy's Instagram tease correctly, Twisty the Clown (John Carroll Lynch) might be around American Horror Story's Season 7 for a lot more than balloon animals and joy-buzzers Though details about the upcoming season are still few and far-between, Murphy has taken to social media over the past[...]