Mike Flanagan's 'Hill House' Follow-up is officially titled 'The Haunting of Bly Manor'
One of 2018’s pleasant surprises (cc - YouTube Red’s Cobra Kai) has been renewed for a second season!
With the critical success of Shirley Jackson's reimagining of The Haunting of Hill House, it was a foregone conclusion that Netflix and Mike Flanagan would follow-up with a second season. The question remained, how would a second season shake out? Various sites reported the possibility of a prequel that could explore the origin of the Hill House or a return to Hill House following Michael Huisman’s character Steven. Turns out Netflix and Flanagan are going with the third option, anthology storytelling.
Netflix dropped the news announcing the official title for Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House follow-up: The Haunting of Bly Manor.
According to Deadline, Season 2 will indeed follow the anthology blueprint and will adapt the source material from Henry James late 19th-century horror novella, The Turn of the Screw. Which means many of you can now breathe a sigh of relief knowing the Crain family's pain and anguish has officially come to an end. And rightly so.
But in The Turn of the Screw, evil still lurks. This time in a similar setting depicting the struggle between good and evil following a young governess who is sent to care for two children in a country house called Bly. Much like Shirley Jackson’s eerie and ghostly setting, Bly Manor is also the home of evil apparitions looking to possess the souls of the two children the governess is tasked to look after.
Sources have not confirmed any specifics beyond title and debut date, but it's a good bet Flanagan will inject his own spin on James' source material that has been the subject of many academic interpretations for well over a century.
The Haunting of Bly Manor will debut in 2020.
