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'American Horror Story' season 6 news, spoilers: Ryan Murphy teases multiple deaths in upcoming episode, announces 'Murder House'-'Coven' crossover

Jackie Villegas November 01, 2016 09:45 AM EST

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"American Horror Story" season 6 has taken fans of the anthology horror series by surprise with a stunning mid-season reset that upended everything viewers thought they knew about the season.

Over the weekend, "American Horror Story" co-creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy appeared at Entertainment Weekly's PopFest, where he spoke about the motivation behind the purposely different sixth season, saying that it was designed to be leaner and meaner with shorter episodes compared to previous seasons.

"I just wanted it to be more real," he explained. "Before on our show, if you died, chances are you would come back the next episode, just because I loved the actors so much. But I feel the stakes of it [this year] are... once you die, ya dead. And I think it's just scarier. And I think it's much more real," Murphy added.

Murphy also teased an upcoming episode that he said is the season's most frightening yet. "It might be our most intense, true horror episode yet," he revealed. "It was very difficult to edit, just because it was so in your face. Many, many people die in it," he continued.

During the event, the "American Horror Story" boss also announced that a future season of the anthology horror will be a crossover between "Coven," the show's third season, and "Murder House," its first. "Coven," which was set in New Orleans, followed the descendants of the survivors of the Salem Witch Trials. "Murder House" followed the Harmon family, who relocated from Boston to a haunted house in Los Angeles.

According to Murphy, it is still unclear how the season will play out. Nonetheless, he confirmed that characters from both seasons will appear in the crossover season together and that he has already started talking to some of the "Murder House" and "Coven" actors about returning for the crossover.

"American Horror Story" season 6 airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EDT on FX.

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