As regular viewers of the FX anthology series already know, American Horror Story can be something of a mixed bag. Over the past 15 years, the series has tackled everything from serial killers and aliens to vampires, witches, ghosts, and famous true crime cases, with varying degrees of success. The show’s later seasons, in particular, have struggled to recapture the magic of the earlier outings, which saw its stars — most notably Oscar winner Jessica Lange — racking up awards season nominations and hardware. (In fact, if you haven’t seen them, you should probably just skip AHS: Delicate and AHS: Double Feature entirely.) But the franchise certainly seems on an upswing again with its forthcoming 13th season, which will bring back many of the franchise’s most popular regular players, including Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Gabourey Sidibe and Leslie Grossman, while adding Arianna Grande (who starred in Murphy’s wildly underrated Scream Queens) to the mix.But, and perhaps most importantly for fans: Lange herself will be back this season, for the first time in a regular capacity since season 4’s Freak Show. cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Lange’s long-awaited return is probably already enough to get the most lapsed of AHS viewers to return to the fold. But now that it appears the show is going to return to the world of one of its most popular installments? Heck yeah, sign us up. View this post on Instagram Creator Ryan Murphy has been cagey about what sort of story this Avengers: Doomsday-level season is likely to tell. But thanks to the events of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, any Coven follow-up has plenty of options. The ending of Apocalypse essentially erased or rewrote many events across the anthology’s interconnected timeline. The witch Mallory (Lourd) was sent back into the past, where she killed Michael Langdon (Cody Fern), the Antichrist child born at the end of the series’ original installment, Murder House. His death not only prevented the apocalypse of season 8’s title, but also resurrected many dearly departed Coven characters, including Paulson’s Supreme with Cordelia Foxx, and her fellow witches Misty Day (Lily Rabe), Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga), and Queenie (Sidibe). It also revived Lange’s Constance Langdon, the grand dame of the infamous Hollywood murder mansion. Basically, at this point, any character who wasn’t already canonically a ghost at the end of the show’s first season is probably back on the table for a potential appearance in this presumed sequel series. View this post on Instagram Set images from Murphy’s production company have confirmed that Paulson and Roberts are reprising their respective Coven characters, and while there’s no official word about whether Lange is returning as Constance, the set images that have been shared sure look a whole lot like it. (That is not a Fiona Goode hairdo, is what I’m saying.) Does this mean we won’t see Fiona again? Never say never — if Madison Montgomery can be sprung from her department store hell, there’s no reason to assume Fiona can’t be similarly freed from her eternal prison of knotty pine.Mallory has already been theoretically established as Cordelia’s successor and the next Supreme witch, so the question of what new danger or drama arises at New Orleans’s infamous Robichaux Academy is still up in the air. But we won’t have to wait that long to find out — Murphy has already confirmed the new season will arrive in September, just in time for spooky season. The post American Horror Story Season 13 Is Shaping Up to Be a Timeline-Shifting Coven Follow-Up appeared first on Den of Geek.