American Horror Story: Freak Show: “Edward Mordrake, Part 1”

Oh, Twitter. Whatever shall we do with you? Of course American Horror Story pulls a dark take from history and you find a way to connect it to the boy who lived. Of course, I guess there was sort of a good reason. AHS' version of Edward Mordrake does 

On AHS: Freak Show, Wes Bentley plays Edward Mordrake, a character who was described as a “a dark tormentor from Kathy Bates' past who is hell-bent on revenge.” So that brings the total of Ethel's ex-boyfriends who have shown up hell-bent on revenge 

Not just of its freaks, like Chang and Eng and Edward Mordrake, but of its movie conventions. It's not quite to the standard of Murder House's borrowed horror movie element of the week, but Freak Show continues to impress with its inspired moments.

American Horror Story: Freak Show Season 4 Episode 3 preview and official synopsis of 'Edward Mordrake, Pt 1' on FX.

Ryan Murphy just couldn't resist spilling a few spoilers about the two-episode Halloween special, “Edward Mordrake Parts I and II.” Murphy told Entertainment Weekly that the next episode of American Horror Story: Freak