From the very beginning, as James sets up the story as something relayed to us secondhand by someone who just happens to have a written account of it, The Turn of the Screw is layered with little veils of obfuscation, little details that make the story harder to ever fully grasp.
The Turn of the Screw: We begin, naturally, with the story from which The Haunting of Bly Manor takes its name and setting, James' 1898 novella, which remains one of the most popular and influential ghost stories in the English language, as much for its ambiguity as for its creepy imagery.
The Haunting of Bly Manor | Official Trailer | Netflix Before you watch The Haunting of Bly Manor, check out these classic Henry James tales to get a sense of the series' themes of longing, loss, and haunting romance. While we won't know exactly how these Jamesian ideas are used in full until we've seen the whole series, we thought we'd get ready for Bly Manor with a bit of a Henry James primer, using story titles that have been floated by Flanagan himself in interviews, stories that have reportedly been used as episode titles for the series, and stories that just seem to align with the ghostly aura of the series in general. As Flanagan has already laid out in interviews, Bly Manor is more of a "remix" that takes the central concept from Turn of the Screw - a governess goes to a stately old house to care for a couple of children and finds spooky things there - and mixes it with ideas present in numerous other James stories, ghostly and otherwise. 9, we're taking a close look at the literary inspiration for the new season: Henry James.Īs the title suggests, this season of The Haunting will use James' classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw as a jumping-off point, but the literary inspirations don't end there.
Now, as we prepare to enter The Haunting of Bly Manor on Oct. In 2018, Flanagan and his producing partner Trevor Macy brought us The Haunting of Hill House, a Netflix series inspired by Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name. This October, horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan is once again inviting us to explore a haunted house inspired by classic horror fiction.
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