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American Horror Story will get a seventh season

American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy
American Horror Story's Ryan Murphy

FX has announced that the spooky American Horror Story will return for a seventh season in 2017.

And co-creator Ryan Murphy, who's also behind the spooky drama's sister show American Crime Story, has revealed that he already knows what the new season of the horror anthology series will entail.

"It comes to me as it always comes to me," says Murphy, whose CV includes Glee, Scream Queens and Nip/Tuck.

He told EW: "I sit up and bed and I say 'That’s it!' I have been mulling a couple of ideas and I wasn't loving it. Then I was thinking of this other thing and I literally sat up and bed and said 'That’s it!' Whenever it happens it's such a relief because it's so much pressure."

Murphy says, like the current American Horror Story:Roanoke, which features a big twist, season 7 will shake things up for fans of the series.

"It's also a narratively strange idea," he admits. "I've already started to call people saying, 'Put this on your calendar.' It's a good one."

The current sixth season, American Horror Story: Roanoke, continues on Fridays on FOX UK.

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