| SPINECHILLER | Poet hiding long horror story (5-7) |
| BOARD | Directors seeing poet hiding nothing (5) |
| ERATO | She inspires poet hiding in Sheraton (5) |
| BEARD | Poet hiding key in facial hair (5) |
| SARAHPAULSON | American Horror Story actress (5,7) |
| JESSICALANGE | Shown, Emmy winner for "American Horror Story: Coven": 2 wds. |
| SARA | American Horror Story and 12 Years a Slave actress, ___ Paulson (5) |
| BATES | Star of TV'S American Horror Story: Coven, Kathy ___ (5) |
| ETHEL | One of Kathy Bates' American Horror Story characters, ___ Darling (5) |
| AMERICAN | Horror series (-------- Horror Story) |
| SCHILLER | Writer's horror story doesn't take long |
| CHILLER | . . . . horror story in the cold store (7) |
| SCREW | The Turn of the ___ , 1898 Henry James horror story (5) |
| CARRIERPIGEON | Horror story and awful gripe about messenger (7,6) |
| LANGE | Jessica - - -, Blue Sky Oscar-winner and American Horror Story actress (5) |
| VAMPIRE | A member after volume, one about horror story creature (7) |
| ROBERTS | Emma _, actor in American Horror Story (7) |
| SARAH | --- Paulson, American Horror Story actress (5) |
| EMMAROBERTS | Actress from American Horror Story and Scream Queens (4,7) |
| KATHY | ----- Bates, American Horror Story actor (5) |
