In the past few years, director Mike Flanagan has embarked on a spooky adaptation tour of sorts. He tackled Stephen King with Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, received massive amounts of praise for his treatment of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, turned Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw into The Haunting of Bly Manor, and even took a stab at young-adult author Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club. On October 12, Netflix audiences will get to see how he handles Edgar Allan Poe with the miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher.
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