In its place, Briarcliff Manor, an asylum for the criminally insane that's being operated by Jessica Lange's Sister Jude, who makes "American Horror Story's" Constance Langdon look like a lovely ...

Set in the 1960s, the series takes viewers inside Briarcliff Manor, an asylum for the criminally insane run by the Catholic Church. Where the first season was the study of adultery, Year 2 takes a ...

In American Horror Story: Asylum, the FX show’s criminally insane asylum namesake Briarcliff Manor dominates like the scariest haunted house you could ever imagine. It’s got twisting dark ...

Not everyone deserves a second chance, but most of the characters on “American Horror Story” didn’t belong in the Briarcliff Manor asylum in the first place. For those who survived the ...

Welcome to 1964, where Jessica Lange is no longer Constance Langdon, but Sister Jude, a badass nun with a Boston accent running the Briarcliff Manor insane asylum. Also returning is Evan Peters ...

seem to antithesize the actual goings-on in and around Briarcliff Manor, a notorious tuberculosis ward turned insane asylum. It was the setting for 46,000 deaths between its opening in 1908 and ...

Who is the Angel of Death in ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’? Played by Frances Conroy, the Angel of Death — a.k.a. Shachath — is a kind figure who often appears at Briarcliff Manor ...

By fun I mean screams and mutilations. But before that we get the lowdown on the asylum. “Built in 1908, Briarcliff Manor was the largest tuberculosis ward on the East Coast. Forty-six thousand ...