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'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

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Rob Sheffield
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: February 2
Journalist
Music Critic
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the United States of America
Robert James Sheffield
Lonely
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