Netflix Reveals First Details on Hill House Follow-Up The Haunting of Bly Manor

Details have been very scant about the hotly anticipated follow-up to Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, but today we finally have a bevy of interesting details to report. For one, we know when The Haunting of Bly Manor will arrive: “fall of 2020.” Who wants to bet that the Halloween window is involved here in some way?

Today also brings some first-look images from the new series, and the first poster, which you can see below, in addition to some very interesting plot details straight from director/showrunner Mike Flanagan. In his quotes, he illuminates a bit how the unorthodox second season of the series will work, given that it’s not a direct follow-up to Hill House. Instead, the second season of the anthology-like series will tackle another classic piece of gothic literature in the form of Henry James’ classic novel The Turn of the Screw, famously adapted as The Innocents in 1961 and the godawful The Turning earlier this year—an early indication of what 2020 had in store for us all. Rather than this simply being another straight-up adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, however, Flanagan says that the season will actually incorporate elements of many other Henry James stories as well.

“The thing I have access to, that no other adaptation of The Turn of to the Screw has, is the rest of Henry James’ ghost stories. I get to use all of them,” Flanagan said in an interview with Games Radar. “The Turn of the Screw is only one of a dozen stories that we’re telling. All Henry James; all thematically linked. I think of Turn of the Screw as the backbone of this season—the through line that carries us from beginning to end. But we get to go off into ‘The Jolly Corner’ and ‘The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,’ and so many other of these wonderful ghost stories that people haven’t seen adapted before.”