![]() ![]() It is director Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House, his acclaimed version of the Shirley Jackson book, which is the other “great novel of the supernatural” that King was referring to in Danse Macabre, his 1981 study of the horror genre. The Haunting of Bly Manor updates James’s story, published in 1898, to the 1980s. – Lovecraft Country review: ‘ambitious and unwieldy’ One new screen version, The Turning, was released earlier this year and another is in development for streaming platform Quibi, while today sees the launch of a hotly-anticipated adaptation on Netflix. Stephen King called it one of “the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years”, Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn says it is “one of the most chilling ghost stories ever”, and its own writer was so frightened on rereading it that he was afraid to go to bed.Įver since its publication, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, about a governess attempting to protect two young children from evil ghosts in an isolated country house, has terrified and shocked readers and, in recent decades, it has proved catnip to screenwriters. ![]()
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