American Horror Story: 13 premiered Thursday on FX. Here's who Bassett plays, plus the full cast of returning favorites.
Bassett reprises Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans she first played in 2013's Coven and again in 2018's Apocalypse.
Ryan Murphy calls it the Avengers of AHS: characters from past seasons collide in a story built around the unlucky number 13. Three episodes aired Sept. 24.
Paulson returns in six or seven roles, including Coven's Cordelia Goode, Apocalypse's Ms. Venable and Hotel's Hypodermic Sally.
Peters plays five characters, among them Murder House's Tate Langdon, Hotel's James Patrick March and Cult's Kai Anderson.
Lange revives her icons: Constance Langdon, Sister Jude, Fiona Goode and Elsa Mars, from Murder House, Asylum, Coven and Freak Show.
Kathy Bates returns as Madame Delphine LaLaurie, the cruel socialite whose feud with Bassett's Marie Laveau powered Coven.
Emma Roberts plays Madison Montgomery again, the sharp-tongued young witch from Coven and Apocalypse.
Lourd plays two roles again: Winter Anderson from Cult and Mallory, the powerful witch from Apocalypse.
Mena Suvari's Black Dahlia, Gabourey Sidibe's Queenie, Frances Conroy's Myrtle Snow, Leslie Grossman's Coco and John Carroll Lynch's Twisty all return.
New episodes air Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on FX and stream on Hulu. Three more drop Oct. 1, and the 13-episode run ends Oct. 29.