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Books For Fans of The Haunting Anthology
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items "The Haunting series is very much about haunted spaces and haunted people," said creator Mike Flanagan.
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The Haunting of Hill House
If You Liked The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Henry James stories that inspired The Haunting of Bly Manor
Books by Henry James
Books for Fans of The Haunting of Bly Manor
The Haunting of Hill House
Houses aren’t safe spaces in Jackson’s fiction. They are stages for disruption, mirroring both their protagonists’ vulnerability and their worst impulses.
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult schola...
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson’s brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous fam...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Orange Collection)
by Shirley Jackson
This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the “The Possibility of Evil” and “The Summer People.” In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightm...
Dark Tales
by Shirley Jackson
Instantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “rema...
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by Ruth Franklin
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Was Hill House always evil or did the Hills make it evil? This is probably the hardest question to answer because Hill House defies all neat and logical explanation. As creator Mike Flanagan previously told us, the house "can't be held to a rational ...
The Haunting of Hill House Explained: Burning Questions Answered
The very structure of “The Haunting of Hill House” is a thing of beauty, cutting back and forth between two eras of the Crain family. The present-day material introduces us to an array of troubled souls, all of whom are somewhat involved in trying to...
Netflix’s Terrifying, Moving The Haunting of Hill House is Essential Viewing
Who is the Bent Neck Lady? And what's behind that eerie red door? But before you dig into those mysteries, you might want to familiarize yourself with the horror show's big group of characters. The series follows Olivia (Carla Gugino) and Hugh Crain ...
The Haunting of Hill House: The Older and Younger Versions of the Characters, Side by Side
In the first episode, Steve spots one of Luke's drawings when they're in the "tree house" and you can understand why he's disturbed – the picture shows a woman with dead eyes, screaming with a wide open mouth. Later on we see Nell pulling a similar f...
12 spooky details you missed in Haunting of Hill House
Flanagan and friends didn't muck about. Just seconds into the first episode, 'Steven Sees a Ghost', viewers were hit with a pale-faced ghoul peeking through the staircase railings.
15 ghosts you *may not even have spotted* in The Haunting of Hill House
...THEY SAW YOU, THOUGH...
Though "The Haunting of Hill House" isn't strictly a mystery show, the show's format and the non-linear narrative do build up a very compelling set of questions that slowly unravel throughout the season. There's the question of what exactly happened ...
The Haunting Of Hill House Ending Explained: And Those Who Walk There Walk Together
Jackson’s work has a particularly disturbing resonance today, when our experience of the pandemic and reports of rioters rampaging through the US Capitol and erecting gallows outside are still fresh in the memory. Small–town meetings are routinely in...
‘She exposed the fragility of so-called civilised life’: why Shirley Jackson’s horror speaks to our times
If You Liked The Haunting of Hill House
If you’re looking for more horror stories
When Apollo Kagwa’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books and strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll....
The Changeling
by Victor LaValle
Following her parents’ high-profile divorce, Paige and her brother are forced to move to Idaho with their mother, and Paige doesn’t have very high hopes for her new life. The small town they’ve moved to is nothing compared to the life she left behind...
Diary of a Haunting by M. Verano
This psychological horror unravels the unsettling experiences of a young family, innocently enticed by the seemingly idyllic vistas of their new apartment. Situated beside a graveyard, the building quietly harbors an insidious evil, nudging them down...
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that th...
House of Furies by Madeleine Roux
The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors, and the ...
The Good House
by Tananarive Due
It's no wonder that the woman who becomes the second Mrs. de Winter (whose first name we never learn) eagerly accepts Maxim de Winter's offer of matrimony. She's young, orphaned, and employed as companion to a mean-spirited fading beauty. The handsom...
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the ha...
The Shining by Stephen King
There’s something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it’s been home to four generations of Silver women—Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, w...
White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbanc...
This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Colin Dickey is on the trail of America’s ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt i...
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place - Jake Baker spends most of his time with his uncle Calvin, a kind but eccentric enthusiast of occult artifacts and conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turns twelve, he ...
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner, and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz ...
The Silence of Ghosts by Jonathan Aycliffe
In Brooklyn, in a historic part of that shambled borough, the flailing iron ball of the wrecker’s crane is at work. One of the few buildings still standing amid the rubble is the Brevoort House, older than memory. Its only remaining tenant is Peter R...
The Search for Joseph Tully by William H. Hallahan
The Haunting of Bly Manor
The horror aspect of the show exists in the circumferences of these romances, always threatening to overwhelm them. ‘Bly Manor’ is a modern adaptation of the 1898 gothic horror novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’ by Henry James.
Despite waxing philosophical about the evil in men, Miles was doing his best to be expelled from boarding school and rejoin his sister back home at Bly. While all his antics at school were his own doing, his creepy behavior toward Dani is down to Qui...
Is Miles evil?
"It's the place where we're supposed to be the safest," says show creator Mike Flanagan, describing the ongoing fascination with experiencing hauntings at home. "Houses have lives… they're going to carry echoes of what's gone in there before. That fa...
Inside the spooky house The Haunting of Bly Manor built
We lay my love and I beneath the weeping willow. But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. Singing "Oh willow waly" by the tree that weeps with me. Singing "Oh willow waly" till my lover return to me
'The Haunting of Bly Manor' binge recap
When Viola comes into the manor again and is about to Kill Dani, she sees Flora. Although her memory has almost faded, she still knows that she is there for a young girl. As she takes Flora and begins walking towards the pond, Henry arrives and tries...
The Haunting of Bly Manor Ending, Explained
When Dani is hired as the au pair for Miles and Flora, who've recently lost their parents to a tragic accident, she discovers that the young girl has a dollhouse that depicts where everyone in Bly Manor is at all times. While its most important doll ...
The Haunting Of Bly Manor: Flora's 14 Dolls & Their Identities Explained
In The Turn of the Screw, we know little about Miles and Flora's absentee uncle, but Flanagan built out the character by blending him with the narrator of one of James' best ghost stories, The Jolly Corner. In this short story, an American who had be...
The Jolly Corner References
Henry James stories that inspired The Haunting of Bly Manor
Flanagan remixed and reimagined several works of Henry James. You can see nods to the Victorian author in the themes Bly Manor explores, including loss of innocence; longing for a life never lived; and the relationship between identity, consciousness...
This 1898 gothic horror provides the basic premise for Bly Manor, telling the story of a young governess who takes a job overseeing two young orphans at a remote, and possibly haunted, estate. Characters including Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti), Ha...
The Turn of the Screw References
Our beloved cook Owen takes his first name from this short story, and it's where the Wingrave family gets their last name. Owen Wingrave tells the tale of a young man from a military family who decides to quit his martial education. With his family a...
Owen Wingrave References
The Haunting of Bly Manor's eighth episode is an adaptation of this short story and serves as the origin story for Bly's ghostly curse. Just like in the show, it centers around sisters Viola and Perdita Willoughby, whose sibling rivalry is exacerbate...
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes References
Dani is already haunted by the ghost of her ex-fiancé, Edmund (Roby Attal), when she arrives at Bly. This backstory is inspired by James' Sir Edmund Orme, which focuses on a male narrator who falls for Charlotte Marden only to begin seeing the ghost ...
Sir Edmund Orme References
The dream-hopping the characters experience in Bly Manor is reminiscent of the dream world the protagonist in The Great Good Place visits. (The characters also refer to Bly as a "great good place" several times in the first episode.) In the story, Ge...
The Great Good Place References
The name of Viola's daughter is taken from one of James' most famous novels, The Portrait of a Lady, which follows a free-spirited American woman, Isabel Archer, who loses her freedom and finds herself trapped in a grim marriage to a manipulative man...
The Portrait of a Lady References
This 1903 novella is what inspired Dani's tragic ending at the end of Bly Manor. The novella is the tale of James Marcher, a man who believes he is destined for a spectacular, catastrophic fate. And in waiting for this fate to come to fruition, March...
The Beast in the Jungle References
Although Bly's housekeeper Mrs. Grose originated in Turn of the Screw, the show's take on this character has more in common with the protagonist from The Altar of the Dead. The 1895 tale follows Stransom, a man who is faithfully devoted to his altar ...
The Altar of the Dead
Books by Henry James
The books that inspired The Haunting Season 2
The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. The Turn of the Screw is considered a work of both Gothic and horror fiction. In the century following its publication, c...
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Spencer Brydon returns to New York City after thirty-three years abroad. He has returned to "look at his 'property'", two buildings, one his boyhood home on "the jolly corner". The second, larger structure is now going to be renovated into a big apar...
The Jolly Corner by Henry James
The tale begins in the 18th century in Massachusetts. It features the Willoughby family (called Wingrave in the 1885 revision), consisting of a widowed mother, one son named Bernard, and two daughters. The girls, Perdita and Viola (changed to Rosalin...
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James
John Marcher is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier while living in southern Italy, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event,...
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE by Henry James
"The Altar of the Dead" is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friend...
The altar of the dead by Henry James
The story follows the life of Owen Wingrave, a young man from a wealthy family who is expected to follow in his family's military tradition. However, Owen is a pacifist and refuses to join the army, much to the disappointment of his family and friend...
Owen Wingrave by Henry James
After a long night of unfinished work, the morning dawns for George Dane, a writer whose life has grown too busy with his career and relationships. An expected breakfast guest appears and suddenly Dane is transported to a new environment, the great g...
The Great Good Place by Henry James
In the story, Mrs. Marden is shaken on several occasions by the sight of a gentleman whom no other character besides the narrator is able to see. Once certain that the narrator can, in fact, see him, Mrs. Marden reveals that the gentleman is the ghos...
Sir Edmund Orme by Henry James
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, do...
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
THE HENRY JAMES COLLECTION VOL. I includes 24 short stories and novellas by noted realist writer Henry James, including his supernatural thriller THE TURN OF THE SCREW. This ebook is DRM and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.
The Henry James Collection Vol. I: 24 Novellas and Short Stories
THE HENRY JAMES COLLECTION VOL. II includes 24 short stories and novellas by noted realist writer Henry James, author of the supernatural thriller THE TURN OF THE SCREW. This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigat...
The Henry James Collection Vol. II: 24 Novellas and Short Stories
Books for Fans of The Haunting of Bly Manor
Walk through similarly haunted halls with these books
Edgar Award Finalist: A demon-possessed house in San Francisco is out to devour the world in this horror tale by the acclaimed author of The Manitou. A desperate and terrified old man appears at the office of John Hyatt at the San Francisco Departmen...
Charnel House by Graham Masterton
When Peter Constantine inherited a vast, remote estate, his life began to change. Free at last from money worries, Peter and his wife, Meg, could relax—and Peter could explore his new, mysterious home. From the thick woods, the winding trails, the bi...
The Spirit Wood by Robert Masello
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but...
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
When Lynnette got married four years ago, all she wanted was to flee the confines of her dull hometown deep in the heart of the cornfields of Iowa. After the death of her husband, Lynnette has now returned to her famine-plagued farming town to care f...
Nella Waits By Marlys Millhiser
The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly di...
The House on the Borderland by: William Hope Hodgson
The house of usher is built on death itself—and now it has a new master... For generations the House of Usher has grown wealthier and more powerful on the invention and sale of murderous military weapons. But another evil has lived and grown within t...
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon
After the sudden death of their youngest child, Josh, Jenna and David Kellar need a fresh and healing new start. When Jenna is bequeathed her estranged father's home in the coastal town of Eureka, California, it's the opportunity the Kellars, their s...
The Loveliest Dead by Ray Garton
A house with a sinister past – and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when he sees Charec...
Property of a Lady by Sarah Rayne
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. No...
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
One postwar summer, in his home in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners—mother, ...
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters