The haunting of hill house bly manor

Netflix entertained and petrified us all with their horror series The Haunting of Hill House back in 2018, and now they're bringing out a sequel called The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is set to be even more terrifying than the first. But are the two stories - Bly Manor and Hill House - connected?

The second series is inspired by the ghost stories of Henry James, including the 1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw, and it follows the story of a tutor who is looking after two children, Flora and Miles, at stately mansion Bly Manor. Before long, she starts to see strangers around the property and the grounds, and that's where things all start to unravel.

Show creator Mike Flanagan has already said that the second series will be very different to the first, explaining, "... it was really important for all of us not to play the same notes we played for the first season. The first season is very much entrenched in family dynamics and death and grief and loss and child trauma. We all collectively felt like we’d said everything we wanted to say about that."


Is Bly Manor connected to Hill House?

As far as plot goes, no. Also as far as characters go, no. Midnight Mass is an entirely original story that Flanagan cooked up, whereas The Haunting of Hill House was based on a Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, and The Haunting of Bly Manor was based on Henry James' novella The Turn of the Screw.

Which is first The Haunting of Hill House or Bly Manor?

The first series, titled The Haunting of Hill House, premiered on October 12, 2018, and the second, titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, on October 9, 2020. Both series star Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti, portraying different characters across the two seasons.

Why Do The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor have the same cast?

The Haunting of Bly Manor has reached Netflix, and we're all wondering how this new series connects to The Haunting of Hill House. After all, the two are from the same showrunner, feature the same cast, and share the same naming format. But are there actually any story connections between the two? The short answer: no.

Is Bly Manor scarier than Hill House?

By appearing to have true motives behind their actions, the ghosts of Bly are much more terrifying than those from Hill House. Essentially, the purpose the ghosts at Bly have is what makes them more lethal.