FX has announced that its creepy and highly succesful American Horror Story has been picked up for a second run, after only four episodes have been aired.

The new batch of 13 episodes will air in 2012, FX Networks President and General Manager John Landgraf announced today. “It’s one thing to have the ambition and guts to reinvent a genre in a way that makes it captivatingly fresh for a broad audience – it’s something else entirely to have the craft to back that ambition up. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have hit the trifecta with Nip/Tuck, Glee and now American Horror Story, which will be scaring FX’s viewers to death for many years to come.”

American Horror Story begins on FX in the UK next Monday, November 7. Read our reviews here.