The second season of creator Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story takes place inside of a bleak mental institution called Briarcliff. Patients tend to disappear physically, emotionally, or both once inside this last stop for the criminally insane (and in many instances, criminally unlucky), for in addition to the sadistic ministrations of administrator Sister Jude and the threat of a serial killer known as "Bloody Face", lurks an otherworldly evil that may be the cruelest force of all.

This release contains every episode from the first season of the award-winning cable series American Horror Story starring Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton as a pair of new homeowners who discover their new abode contains dark secrets from the past.