American Horror Story: Freak Show premieres tonight on FX. Take a look inside the episode and get ready to dive into the new installment.

Step right up to see before your very eyes a cast of characters so unique and award-winning that only one series on television is capable of pulling them together. American Horror Story: Freak Show is finally ready to raise the curtain and scare audiences with the first episode, “Monsters Among Us.”

‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ Cast explains what to expect:

As the cast points out setting the series in the 1950s, a time of keeping up appearances to fit into a mold of normality, opens up the dark world of life behind closed doors. For Elsa Mars’ Cabinet of Curiosities, their are no abnormalities tucked away in their closets. All it costs is the price of admission to see them on display!

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Synopsis ‘Monsters Among Us’

American Horror Story: Freak Show begins its tale in the quiet, sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida. The year is 1952. A troupe of curiosities has just arrived to town, coinciding with the strange emergence of a dark entity that savagely threatens the lives of townsfolk and freaks alike. This is the story of the performers and their desperate journey of survival amidst the dying world of the American carny experience.

One of the only surviving sideshows in the country struggles to stay in business during the dawning era of television. When police make a terrifying discovery at a local farmhouse, the eccentric purveyor of the freak show sees an opportunity that will lead her troupe either to their salvation or ruin.

•Note: This episode will run past 11:00 p.m. ET. Set your DVRs to 11:20 to be safe!

Watch American Horror Story: Freak Show episode 1, “Monsters Among Us,” tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.