The Haunting of Bly Manor, like the estate that gives it its name, is a gorgeous, sprawling wonder that I fear is going to upset a fair amount of people. Mike Flanagan's follow-up to the massive — and massively terrifying — hit The Haunting of Hill House is a lot of things, actually. A Gothic ghost story. A tragic romance. A rumination on the ways past traumas leave jagged scars on the present. But what The Haunting of Bly Manor is not... is scary. Nor, in the end, is it really trying to be. Hill House was also interested in …

After the out-and-out success that was Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, the ghoulish ghost story's follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor, is one of the most highly anticipated series out there. Series creator Mike Flanagan is, of course, hard at work adapting Stephen King's Doctor Sleep for the big screen, but Bly Manor is coming quickly down the pipeline; we already know it's based on Henry James’ 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw and that Hill House stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Victoria Pedretti are set to return. But Flanagan apparently …

Mike Flanagan and Netflix are heading back to Hill House, just don't expect to see the Crains. Last year's sensational horror series The Haunting of Hill House will return to the streaming service with a new chapter as an anthology-style series, with the next installment focusing on a new story and "all new" characters. Which characters? Well, with Shirley Jackson behind him, Flanagan is turning to another bonafide literary classic -- Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Gulp. The news comes as part of a multi-year overall deal between Netflix, Flanagan, and producer Trevor Macy, the …