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The opening credits were created by Kyle Cooper and his company Prologue, who also created the opening scenes for Seven and The Walking Dead.

Ryan Murphy said about the opening credits "The title sequence is almost like a mystery. By the time you see the ninth episode of this season, every image in that title sequence will be explained. So for example, What are the jars in the basement? What is the mystery of the floating white Christening dress? Why is somebody holding hedge clippers that are bloody? Each time you watch it and you watch the week's episode you'll be able to say, 'Oh that's why that's in there!'"^[1]

The font used for the AHS logo is called "Rennie Mackintosh", after the Scottish Art Nouveau artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Ryan Murphy had wanted "Frank Lloyd Wright" font, after the American architect famous for his use of stained glass. Since Frank Lloyd Wright was influenced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Prologue company suggested the Mackintosh font.

Kyle Cooper shot the basement scenes in the sub-basement of Mack Sennett Studios in Silverlake, California, a soundstage originally built in 1916. He decided to shoot the entire opening credits in the basement to provide the view of the infantata, who lives in the basement. The old pictures of children were included to show past owners who watched everything with innocent eyes.^[2]

The song in the background was created by Cesar Davila-Irizarry, who is a friend of "Prologue" editor Gabriel Diaz, and musician Charlie Clouser, formerly of Nine Inch Nails and is called "American Horror Story". The song also gives clues to the show, for example the ambient noises and the sound of dripping water (Maria).

Season 1 Edit

Imagery featured in the Opening Credits are:

• The basement
• A hole in the floor (Infantata's hiding place)
• Bloody medical equipment (Dr Montgomery)
• A man with plastic wrap around his head (Joe Eskandarian)
• Flames (Larry , Lorraine & their daughters)
• Old pictures of toddlers (from approximately 1890- 1930), some of them burning (some of these pictures are post-mortem pictures)
• Jars with both human and pig fetuses (Dr Montgomery)
• A bride's photo (possibly the dead bride from You're Going to Die in There)
• Chains (possibly Beau)
• A dead man under plastic (Joe Eskandarian)
• Another presumably dead man sitting on an office chair under plastic (Joe Eskandarian)
• A man with bloody hedge clippers (possibly Black Dahlia)
• A baptism gown (Infantata)
• Three skeletons (The Harmon family all dead)

Season 2 Edit

• Body in death chute with dark figure in background (Grace Bertrand's post-mortem abduction)
• Bandaged person crying black tears

  

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• Man (possibly Oliver Thredson) behind crucifix (Bloody Face)
• Man in wheelchair (Kit's final abduction)
• Bloody gloves, possibly made of skin, picking  organs (Bloody Face, also Jed Potter's eating of the disembowelled cow)
• Operation with Sister Mary Eunice standing over
• Doctor suffocating patient (Dr. Arden killing then reviving patient to attrract aliens)
• Girl walking backwards on hands up the stairs
• Girl upside down with hair flowing everywhere (Jenny Reynolds from The Origins of Monstrosity)
• Man under bright lights (Alien Abduction)
• Statue of Virgin Mary's face contorting into evil smile (Mary Eunice's possession)
• Insane people (scattered throughout sequence)

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