Margaret Booth

"Do you want to know the other great thing about God? You can use him to explain why something happened, but you can also use him to explain why you did something. Even something horrible. Isn't that great?"

- Margaret Booth

Margaret Booth is the main antagonist of American Horror Story: 1984 and the real killer of the 1970 Red Wood Camp massacre that she framed upon Mr. Jingles, her former best friend.

Initially, she was portrayed as an odd fanatic, but still a rather neutral character and a survivor of the massacre reportedly to be committed by Mr. Jingles, until the fourth episode True Killers revealed that she was behind the massacre and thus the entire series' major events, thus making her the true main villain of AHS: 1984.

She is portrayed by Leslie Grossman.

Trivia

 * Margaret is the third religious fanatic of American Horror Story after Joan Ramsey from Coven and Pastor Charles from Cult, following the theme of religious fanaticism within the series.
 * Leslie Grossman explained that Margaret keeps her glasses on even if she is missing an ear because the arm of the glasses rests on the ear nub.