In addition, the inclusion of the narrator ( Carla Gugino), eventually revealed to be an older version of Jamie, has its origins in The Turn of the Screw. ">All the Hill House Easter Eggs in The Haunting of Bly Manor Fans of the book will also recognize Flanagan's clever spins on memorable moments from the ghost story, including Miles fainting after seeing Peter's ghost in Episode 2 as a nod to the book's bleak ending where Miles faints and dies. Characters including Dani Clayton ( Victoria Pedretti), Hannah Grose ( T'Nia Miller), Peter Quint ( Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Rebecca Jessel (Tahirah Sharif), and Henry (Henry Thomas), Miles (Benjamin Ainsworth), and Flora Wingrave (Amelie Smith) all originated in this novella - although most were depicted quite differently in the show.īly Manor answered several of the lingering questions from The Turn of the Screw, such as why Miles is expelled from school, why the children's uncle is so disinterested in them, how Quint and Jessel die, and whether the ghosts are real or all in the governess' head. 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.
Read on for our full explainer on nine Henry James stories that inspired The Haunting of Bly Manor.Īmelie Smith, The Haunting of Bly Manor Eike Schroter/Netflix The Turn of the Screw While for a few of these - such as "The Pupil," "The Two Faces," and "The Way it Came" - the references never go much further than the episode title, other stories influenced the terrors and tragedies of Bly Manor in inventive and provocative ways. Plus, each of Bly Manor's nine episodes is titled after one of James' stories. The names of Henry Thomas and Amelia Eve's Bly Manor characters, Henry and Jamie, also keep up The Haunting tradition of Flanagan naming characters after that season's inspiring author, like he did with Elizabeth Reaser's Shirley Crain in Hill House. 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, and memory. But for Season 2 of the Netflix horror anthology, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Flanagan remixed and reimagined several works of Henry James.
For The Haunting of Hill House, creator Mike Flanagan drew inspiration from Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name.
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