'The Haunting of Hill House' renewed as anthology, big Season 2 clue teased

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Netflix has conjured up a second season of last fall's buzzy, spooky drama The Haunting of Hill House.

It will be helmed once again by creator Mike Flanagan but don't expect to see the Crain family at the center of Season 1 to be the focus. Season 2, titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, will comprise of an entirely different story based on Henry James's gothic novella The Turn of the Screw.

This essentially labels Hill House as a horror anthology.

The streaming platform has also entered a lucrative multi-year deal with Flanagan and Trevor Macy. In addition to continuing The Haunting of Hill House, they will create new projects exclusively for Netflix under their banner Intrepid Pictures.

"Netflix has been an important part of our story, and we’re proud to have worked with them on The Haunting of Hill House, not to mention Gerald’s Game, Hush, and Before I Wake,” Flanagan and Macy said in a statement. “They’ve enabled and supported a great deal of our work and we look forward to much more.”

Based on the Shirley Jackson novel, Season 1 of Hill House garnered critical acclaim for its This is Us meets horror vibe.

It starred Carla Gugino, Timothy Hutton, Elisabeth Reaser, Victoria Pedretti, Michael Huisman, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Their characters, the Crain family, continue to be haunted by their experiences living in the Hill House for one brief summer.

The exact release date for Season 2 aka Bly Manor is TBD but will drop sometime in 2020.

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