It's a good time to be Macaulay Culkin. Weeks after sitting down with Esquire for a rare interview, the former Home Alone star has landed his highest-profile acting job in years: a spot alongside Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates in the new season of American Horror Story.

Creator Ryan Murphy announced the show's new cast with a cryptic Instagram video. Joining Culkin, Paulson, and Bates are former American Horror Story actors Evan Peters, Billie Lourd, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, Adina Porter, Leslie Grossman, and Angelica Ross. Of the group, only Culkin has not yet appeared on the show.

As is customary with American Horror Story, there is no official word yet on the season's plot—though Murphy previously suggested Season 10 could bring back numerous fan favorites. “We’re working on an idea for season 10 that I think people will love because it’s about reuniting fan-favorite actors to come back—because it might be our last season,” he told Deadline last year. “It’s the last season we have contracted. So, I’ve been quietly reaching out to various people. Some people I haven’t reached out to yet because I was like ‘Do I have a role for them?’ So far, everybody I reached out to said ‘Yes’, so that’s been great.” (To that end, Murphy has been truthful: Paulson, Bates, Porter, and Peters were all absent from American Horror Story 1984, the show's ninth season.)

Fans, however, have already begun speculating about the song choice that accompanied the cast announcement: Orville Peck's “Dead of Night.” The moody track references Carson City, Nevada, which is perched alongside Lake Tahoe; the teaser shows the cast's names emblazoned over an image of waves crashing.

While viewers hmmm about that, let's go back to Culkin. American Horror Story counts as his first regular television work. “I enjoy acting. I enjoy being on set,” he told Esquire of his infrequent appearances on camera since his child star days. “I don’t enjoy a lot of the other things that come around it. What’s a good analogy. The Shawshank Redemption. The way he gets out of prison is to crawl through a tube of shit, you know? It feels like to get to that kind of freedom, I’d have to crawl through a tube of shit. And you know what? I’ve built a really nice prison for myself. It’s soft. It’s sweet. It smells nice. You know? It’s plush.”

Knowing how past seasons of American Horror Story have played out, crawling through a river of raw sewage may be the least of Culkin's troubles.

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