American Horror Story: Delicate Was Inspired By A Truly Horrifying Novel

Even if one doesn’t watch Ryan Murphy’s and Brad Falchuk’s “American Horror Story,” one is likely familiar with the show’s amazing ad campaign.

Soon beginning its twelfth season, “American Horror Story” has always sported surrealist original artworks that only vaguely allude to the content of the series.

The first season saw a pregnant woman and a man in a full-body vinyl outfit suspended in an all-red room.

The third season, “Coven” featured a snake passing between the lips of three women standing close together.

The fifth season, “Hotel,” used an eyeless human face made of mattress panels, a key spearing its cheeks.

The seventh season, “Cult,” sported a woman with an elongated tongue. The latest season, “Delicate,” continued with the tradition by depicting the season’s stars, Emma Roberts, Kim Kardashian, and Cara Delevigne, handling outsize spiders in vaguely pregnancy-themed tableaus.

By FX’s own description, “Delicate” is about…

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