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Even if you've never seen a single episode of "American Horror Story," you probably already know that a whole lot of people die on "American Horror Story." (It is, after all, a horror story.)

But even the nasty ghosts of "Murder House" and the serial killers of "Asylum" can't compete with the bloodbath that has been the series' fifth installment, "Hotel." With vampires, ghosts, and two bona fide serial killers (in two different decades) slicing and dicing innocent Los Angeles citizens week after week -- and that's not even mentioning the entire episode devoted to a dinner party between iconic real-life murderers, because this is a Ryan Murphy show we are talking about -- it's safe to say that "Hotel" has had the highest body count in the series' torrid history. (Even if some of them come back to life immediately as vengeful ghosts. Whatever.)

Some of these deaths have already been forgotten amidst so much carnage, but some of them will go down in the "AHS" history books for their creativity, their uniqueness, and/or their emotional depth. (Not really.) We've ranked our faves below; feel free to disagree -- as long as you don't bear false witness. You know what happens then.