THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Star Henry Thomas Joins THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR

The Haunting of Hill House series creator Mike Flanagan announced on Twitter today that Henry Thomas is set to return for the second season of the anthology horror series, which is called The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Thomas gave an incredible performance in The Haunting of Hill House and I’m thrilled that he’s coming back for the next story, which will be a new one featuring all new characters. Thomas will reunite with Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and possibly Carla Gugino.

This next season is based on the 1898 novel by Henry James, The Turn of the Screw. The book tells the story of a governess, who will be played by Pedretti, “hired to look after a pair of siblings. However, several ghosts around their manor house exhibit a supernatural hold over the children.”

Here’s a description of the The Turn of the Screw novel:

A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.

Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...

But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.

For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

There are no details on who Thomas will be playing in the story, but I’m excited to see how Flanagan adapts this story as a series. Hopefully, it’s just as good or better than The Hunting of Hill House, which was incredibly well made.

I'm beyond thrilled to announce that the inestimable, irreplaceable, invaluable Henry Thomas has joined the cast of THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR.

— Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) August 28, 2019