Last week, we checked in at the American Horror Story: Hotel and picked up our keys to what looks like the goriest and most explicit season of the television anthology yet. While we’re yet to discover if Lady Gaga’s Countess really is Elizabeth Bathory or what’s up with all of this ghost-junkie action, the mastermind behind all the madness, ever-busy Ryan Murphy, has already started mapping out the next season and invited Lady Gaga to stay for another year over Twitter. We’ve decided to join the show’s creative suite and came up with 8 potential story ideas for the next American Horror Story seasons. Let’s check back next year to see if any of our guesses were right.

UFO

Why let Mulder and Scully have all the fun?! The alien abduction subplot was one of the most controversial themes of the Asylum season, mainly because it was tragically underdeveloped. So why not do justice to the sci-fi genre and make a whole UFO-inspired season? There are plenty of spacey movies to take cues from—Alien, the Faculty, Critters and Body Snatchers instantly come to mind. Make one of the characters an astronaut returning home under a close supervision of the FBI. Maybe make that brooding FBI agent an alien for a change.

Creature Feature

Go big or go home, huh? AHS already had zombies, witches, ghosts, Frankenstein’s monster and even a horny Minotaur, but so far it lacks a properly grand menace. Perhaps Sarah Paulson can turn into a science genius, who goes cuckoo and enlarges all of her lab rats? While Evan Peters becomes a surfer who bears a grudge against a shark who has attacked him in the childhood? And surely Jessica Lange wouldn’t mind paying King Kong one more visit.

Slasher

It may seem like right now TV land’s crowded with the masked serial killers, but let’s be real here: Scream The Series lacked any sort of gore or suspense while Scream Queens pays much more attention to the slapstick than to the actual stabbing. So AHS can pay tribute to the '80s (aka the golden era of teens-in-the-woods movies) while giving it the '90s postmodern brains and the '00s guts. It may be set in a small town with the dark woods and an even darker past: there’s a legendary serial killer who was shot but never found, there’s an array of local weirdos worthy of their own freak show and a new resident (make it a naïve teenager), who will have to put all the pieces of the bloody puzzle together. If anything, Coven proved that a good old game of whodunit enhances a season’s narration. 

Prison

Asylum was the show’s darkest and most frightening season due to the themes of claustrophobia, wrongful imprisonment, personality suppression and madness. Now combine it with the demons of the prisoners’ past and you got yourself another potentially stellar journey to the darkest corners of humanity. Perhaps the storyline may revolve around a couple of twisted Natural Born Killers-esque lovers who are sent to the different prisons, where they both learn that despite of what the TV prisons taught you, red really is the new black. 

Vegas

Given Ryan Murphy’s love of flashy excesses, it’s only a matter of time before he brings his bloodthirsty carnival to the mecca of all things sinful: Las Vegas. Gamblers, strippers, hookers, washed-up entertainers and all of the other lost souls just waiting to be exploit on the television screen. Maybe the legendary miss Britney Spears can make a guest appearance, too?

High School

At some point Ryan Murphy will have to freshen up his anthology cast with some new faces, and given his knack for discovering the young talents, it would be a perfect move to set another AHS season right at high school. Buffy The Vampire Slayer has already toyed with the idea of school being the gates to hell itself and Coven proved that the teenage drama can lead to some truly horrific events, so why not make the students of some cursed high school the center of attention while keeping all of the show’s resident stars as scheming teachers, devious school nurses and sociopathic guidance counselors. Just don’t let anyone sing, please: we’ve had enough of this by now.

Wild West

The show loves its time pieces. So maybe it’s time to put the emphasis on the American aspect of the series and set a whole season in some troublesome town in the American Old West, where The Good is long gone and The Bad and The Ugly run the show. Murphy wouldn’t even have to expand his cast much: half of his stars easily pass as ‘cowboy types’ already.

Movie Set

Considering the creative scope of the anthology, it would need a monster of a final season to satisfy its fans. So why not finally break the fourth wall and make it super-duper-meta by sending this one last thrill ride back to its womb—Hollywood? Think Wes Craven’s New Nightmare meets Birdman with all of the AHS cast reuniting (or more like getting slashed left and right). That will provide a perfect opportunity for everyone to reappear as the characters from the earlier seasons, while making fun of the La La Land and maybe even the show itself. A healthy dose of self-irony never killed anybody. Or did it?..