Netflix releases first images from its upcoming ghostly drama The Haunting Of Bly Manor

The Haunting Of Hill House was a hit for streaming service Netflix in 2018.

And now fans can expect another helping of scares with a follow-up titled The Haunting Of Bly Manor.

Developed by Mike Flanagan who was the Hill House showrunner, Bly Manor is not directly linked to the first series although some castmembers are returning in new roles.

Netflix released a first look at The Haunting of Bly Manor on Monday, releasing a series of images from the upcoming anthology drama.

The show is based on the classic Henry James novella The Turn of The Screw, published in 1898.

It tells the story of a governess hired to care for two orphaned children in a remote country house and starts to notice a couple who hang around the estate unseen by anyone else. 

Flanagan is promising that the new season will be even scarier than the first.

Returning actors include Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas and Kate Siegel and the series is slated to debut on Netflix by the end of the year. 

Pedretti stars as an American hired as governess for the brother and sister living at Bly Manor.

Events take place in 1987 and the two children are played by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Amelia Bea Smith.

Henry Thomas plays the children’s uncle.

‘At its foundation, the Haunting series is very much about haunted spaces and haunted people,’ Flanagan told Vanity Fair.

‘The way we make those things dance together is really going to be what’s uniform about Hill House and Bly. Outside of that though, it was really important for all of us not to play the same notes we played for the first season,’ he explained.