'American Horror Story: Freak Show' to Feel Like a Mix of 'Coven' and 'Asylum'

If you're an "American Horror Story" aficionado, you've probably been wondering what this season's "Freak Show" will have in store for fans.

Will it be dark and creepy, like "Asylum," or have some of those "campy" undertones of "Coven?"

FX CEO John Landgraf was posed the question at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills, and he says yes. To all of the above.

"Some years it's going to be big and bright and brash and campy the way 'Coven' is. Other years it's going to be dark and brooding - like 'Asylum' was. I guess I would put 'Freak Show' half-way in between the two. It's not quite as brooding and formal and Hitchcockian as 'Asylum;' it's got a little bit more humor and a little bit more camp, but it's got a brooding period feel to it also."

However, he adds a warning:

"Having worked with [show creator] Ryan [Murphy] now for 10 years, and I think I'm pretty good at reading scripts, I often don't fully grasp the tone of what he's going for until we've seen it executed. He's a guy with a specific point of view."

The "Freak Show" installment of "American Horror Story" will hit the air in October.

It is set in Florida in the 1950's. Landgraf notes it is "going to have a really different look from a design and cinematography standpoint than any of the previous incarnations. The characters are really distinctive, really original, some are really strange, but I think really compelling; I love what I've read so far."

The show will star Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, and Evan Peters.

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