But if you know where to look, there’s an even easier guide: Each episode is named for a different Henry James story. The result is a less obviously cheeky version of Hulu’s Stephen King mixtape Castle Rock.įlanagan has given interviews shouting out a few spooky James tales he and his writers drew inspiration from. But while The Turn of the Screw may be the spine of the series, Flanagan and his writers have fleshed out the nine episodes by remixing and riffing on several other James short stories and novellas. The clearest inspiration in play here is James’s most famous ghost story, The Turn of the Screw Flanagan brought back Hill House stand-out Victoria Pedretti to play the show’s haunted governess. But The Haunting of Bly Manor is even less of a direct adaptation than Hill House. When it came time for the next installment in what could be Netflix’s answer to FX’s popular anthology American Horror Story, Flanagan and his writers turned to another master of dense psychological terror: 19th-century novelist Henry James. The miniseries is Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to the surprise 2018 smash hit The Haunting of Hill House, which drew inspiration from Shirley Jackson’s eponymous 1959 novel. All nine episodes of The Haunting of Bly Manor hit Netflix this weekend, just in time to send spooky-season chills all the way down your spine.
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