Mike Flanagan reveals first look at The Haunting Of Bly Manor, confirms even more spooky ghosts hidden throughout

Mike Flanagan has maintained a very consistent batting average with horror, from his adaptations of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and Gerald’s Game (both of which were previously thought to be unadaptable properties) to The Haunting Of Hill House—his terrifying and deeply poignant Netflix series based on Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name. The filmmaker returns to Netflix this fall with The Haunting Of Bly Manor, another series based on the work of a classic author; this time, it’s Henry James, whose The Turn Of The Screw inspired the Hill House followup. Vanity Fair debuted the first images from Bly Manor and spoke with Flanagan about some of the connections between this series and its predecessor—including returning cast members like Victoria Pedretti, who plays the lead role of Dani Clayton, an American tutor who travels to the English countryside to care for the orphaned Wingrave children: Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelia Bea Smith).