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The fifth season of the American Horror Story anthology focuses on the downtown-Los Angeles Hotel Cortez which has been purchased by New York-based fashion designer Will Drake (Cheyenne Jackson). The 90 year-old hotel is haunted by mysterious ghosts, including those of its twisted founder James Patrick March (Evan Peters) and a drug-addicted prostitute Hypodermic Sally (Sarah Paulson), as well as evil creatures, such as the deformed, strap-on-wielding Addiction Demon. Staff and residents of the hotel include its 115-year old vampire "warden," The Countess (Lady Gaga), her drug addict-turned-vampire lover Donovan (Matt Bomer) and his mother Iris (Kathy Bates), the eccentric bartender Liz Taylor (Denis O'Hare), and the Countess's vengeful ex-lover Ramona Royale (Angela Bassett).

The story of the Hotel Cortez is interwoven with that of Detective John Lowe (Wes Bentley), who is still affected by the disappearance five years earlier of his young son Holden (Lennon Henry). He has been investigating a series of brutal murders perpetrated by the Ten Commandments Killer, who targets those who have supposedly broken Biblical laws. He has been led to the Hotel Cortez by a mysterious phone call telling him to go to there where he will find a clue. The serial killer is tracking Lowe's movements, targeting his family, and attempting to destroy them. When Lowe first checks into the Cortez, he doesn't yet realize that the hotel's secrets and horrors also have the potential to end its reign of terror.