American Horror Story. American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events.
satire (countable and uncountable, plural satires) ( 1 uncountable) A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. ( 2 countable) A satirical work.
Satire as it was originally proposed was a form of literature using sarcasm, irony, and wit, to bring about a change in society, but in the eighteenth century Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and William Hogarth expanded satire to include politics, as well as art. The political climate of the time was one of tension.