Families couldn’t move out fast enough from the infamous “murder house” in the first season of the popular FX series “American Horror Story.”

But now families may be willing to pay millions of dollars just to move in. The 12,000-square-foot home that served as the exterior model for “American Horror Story” is set to be sold for a cool $12 million, and a Syfy reality show will be on hand to track its sale.

Joe Maddalena, founder of Profiles in History and host of the Syfy series “Hollywood Treasure,” is set to help sell the murder house through an international marketing campaign in the May 29 episode of the series.

The house, according to the series, was built by a deranged Hollywood doctor to the stars (who most likely was also the Black Dahlia murderer), and would end up being the scene of many grisly murders. The key to the house, however, was that if you died on the property, you would live on as a ghost that could live and function like a normal person.

In reality, however, construction of the house began in 1904 and was completed in 1908, according to a release.

It was designed by Alfred Rosenheim (the designer of Clume’s Broadway Theater among other structures), and is a designated historical monument. The Catholic Church added a chapel addition in 1954.

It sits on three-quarters of an acre of land, and is located at 1120 Westchester Place in Los Angeles. Interesting enough, before the house was cast in “American Horror Story,” it was on the market for $4.5 million. Amazing what a little publicity on a well-known series can do for your market value.

According to a real estate listing from before the airing of the series, “murder house” is a six-bedroom house in the city’s Country Club Park. The main house is three stories tall, and the detached ballroom was once the chapel, and at the time of the listing, was used “as a recording studio.”

The house, according to the listing is “decked out in Tiffany, with stained glass windows, light fixtures, leaded-glass display cases.” It also has “museum-quality” Tiffany glass doors, a formal dining room, six Batchelder tile fireplaces, and a solarium.

The house itself has a bit of a history similar to what the show portrays, but not in the murder sense. Instead, the house has been on and off the market quite continuously since 1999, going as high as $7.5 million as a listing price in January 2009 before being offered again in late 2010 at $4.5 million.

Maddalena is a popular purveyor of television and movie artifacts, not only helping owners determine if what they have is authentic or not, but also providing expert advice on what such items would sell for on the current open market. “Hollywood Treasure” airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on Syfy.

The second season of “American Horror Story” will come this fall on FX, but will have a different location and new characters, creating an anthology feel for the series. Many of the actors from Season 1 will return, but in totally new roles.

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Word of mouth is, Season 2 will be taking place at Pennhurst Asylum in Pennsylvania.

Oh man, I absolutely hope so.

I think that people will love seeing Evan Peters, who was last season’s ultimate badass bad boy and this year is the hero of the show. It’s not like the actors are playing similar parts. They’re going to look different, they’re going to sound different, they’re going to have different accents. It’s a different time period. The actors are so excited to do that and hopefully their enthusiasm will translate. I mean, I would pay to watch Jessica Lange read the phonebook. And she’s so the opposite of Constance this year. Like, if she was the wilting Blanche DuBois character, there’s not a shred of that now.

I haven’t said this publicly, but the new season is set in the sixties and Chloë Sevigny, for example, plays a character who was put in an asylum because she was a woman who likes sex, so her husband sends her away. At the time, you were able to put people away for that. Another character is institutionalized for being a lesbian. To me, there’s nothing more scary than somebody coming to you and saying they’re going to take you away and put you in a mad house and you have no legal rights and there you shall stay till the end of your days. That is a real horror. Everybody has felt people thinking, “You’re fucking crazy.” Even somebody saying that to you is scary.

American Horror Story, Season 2, is taking place in the 1960’s.

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Why, yes, I will be watching Connie Britton smack down every single person in her path on Nashville.

Connie Britton is moving on!

Watch Nashville!

Chloë Sevigny is set to star in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s previously announced play Abigail/1702 as part of the 2012 season of New York Stage and Film at Vassar College. Directed by David Esbjornson, the production begins performances at the Powerhouse Theatre on June 27. The limited engagement ends on July 8.

No further casting has been announced.

The story of Abigail/1702 begins ten years after the events of The Crucible as Abigail Williams is living under a new identity in Boston and haunted by her past. When a mysterious figure appears, she confronts Salem’s dark history head on and must atone for her role in it.

Oscar-nominated film vet James Cromwell is in final talks to join the cast for American Horror Story Season 2, as the main adversary for Jessica Lange‘s new character. As reported by our sister site Deadline, Cromwell would play a doctor at the East Coast mental institution lorded over by Lange’s character, with whom he will regularly clash.

Other new faces on tap for Season 2 of the FX hit include Big Love‘s Chloe Sevigny, The Voice‘s Adam Levine and French actress Lizzie Brochere, while Golden Globe winner Lange, Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe —who in Season 1 played Constance, Chad, Tate, psychic Billie Dean and doctor’s wife Nora —are all set to return but as different characters.

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY, Season 2 (New Roles)

Location: Los Angeles

Start/Shoot Dates: approx July 10 

[TERESA] Mid 20s. Caucasian, Latin, or Asian, Very sexy. She is the other half of “The Lovers” -her fiance will be played by Adam Levine. RECURRING GUEST STAR

[ALMA] Mid 20s, African American, beautiful. RECURRING GUEST STAR

[THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD] 20 to 29, open to all ethnicities, would prefer shoulder-length hair, but do not limit your submissions. RECURRING GUEST STAR

[TEENAGE BOY CONTORTIONIST] 15 to 20, we are looking for an actor who is skilled at being a contortionist. Please only submit actors who have experience. GUEST STAR