‘Monster’ Renewed for Season 4 at Netflix; Will Cover Lizzie Borden Murders

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan aren’t quite done at Netflix. While season 3 of the Monster Anthology has now wrapped filming and is being prepared for release, that season, which came as part of a two-season renewal, won’t be the last, as Netflix has ordered a fourth entry that’s due to go into production later this year.

Sources indicate that the new season will delve much further back in time than previous entries, spanning the late 1800s to cover the Lizzie Borden murders. For those unfamiliar, these murders were the 1892 killings of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts. Both were found brutally hacked to death with a hatchet—Abby upstairs in a guest room and Andrew on the living room sofa. Suspicion quickly fell on Andrew’s 32-year-old daughter, Lizzie Borden, who lived in the house and had a tense relationship with her stepmother. Lizzie was arrested and tried for the murders in 1893 but was ultimately acquitted due to a lack of physical evidence and the belief at the time that a woman couldn’t commit such a violent crime.

This won’t be the first time the brutal murders have been brought to the screen. There were three adaptations throughout the 2010s, including a Lifetime TV movie with Christina Ricci called Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, alongside an 8-episode mini-series continuation a year later. Most recently, Chloë Sevigny played the role in the 2018 movie Lizzie. 

The anthology series has been far and away the most successful Ryan Murphy developed at Netflix during his tenure, and a lucrative overall deal aside from The Watcher, which did get a season 2 renewal order but is expected to have been quietly shelved in recent years. Murphy has since moved his overall deal back to Disney, where he’s developing a multitude of shows across its lineup of channels and streaming services.

The first series, released in 2022, covered Jeffrey Dahmer with the follow-up second season, The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, released in 2024. The former spent 7 weeks in the Netflix top 10, in addition to still ranking as Netflix’s fourth most-watched English-language series launch of all time. 

The next entry to release will be Monster: Ed Gein, which was previously expected to be released in 2025. Although it was still listed on the 2025 roster document for journalists upon its update at Netflix Upfront back in May, some reports suggest that the new season, starring Charlie Hunnam, has been pushed back to 2026. Netflix declined to comment. 

Production is set to commence as early as September 10th in Los Angeles, according to production listings. Casting is underway on the series, we’re told, with casting directors Josh Einsohn and Tiffany Little Canfield. 

Nexus Point News was the first to report the news.

We first reached out to Netflix on this in late June 2025 and have yet to receive an official response.