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'American Horror Story' season 6 news & spoilers: Upcoming season based on Stephen King's novel?

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The much anticipated new season of FX's horror thriller anthology, "American Horror Story," will premiere this month. For the past several weeks, a series of teaser trailers have been released to further increase the hype among its fans. However, its actual title has not yet been revealed up to this point. Recently, it has been rumored that the title of the sixth season is based on a popular novel by renowned master of horror and author, Stephen King.

According to the latest report from The Wrap, Rotten Tomatoes may have already revealed the updated TV guide on their website. It contains all the upcoming TV series titles and their respective premiere schedule. The leaked TV guide has already kept the internet abuzz as it allegedly has the title for the new "American Horror Story" season. The sixth season's title is called "The Mist," that is, if the leaked Rotten Tomatoes TV guide is to be believed.

Further supporting the leaked "American Horror Story" Season 6 title is another leaked TV guide, this time from the TV Guide website. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the print edition of TV Guide's schedule also indicates "The Mist" as the new season's title.

To note, "The Mist" is the same popular horror novel from Stephen King. This hit 1980's book also had its film adaptation. However, the previous "AHS" Season 6 trailers have no hints that it will have any relation to Stephen King's work. Although FX CEO John Landgraf's recent interview with Slash Film reveals that all the previously released teaser trailers for the upcoming "American Horror Story" chapter are nothing but a mere "intentional misdirection."

"A lot of them are accurate. The others are all misdirects," revealed Landgraf. According to him, the recent teaser videos do not necessarily point directly to the central theme of the sixth season. It will not be easy to pinpoint the main theme of the new season by just basing on the teasers. However, with the leaked "The Mist" title, one of the trailers showing a hideous creature crawling on a foggy road would now make sense.