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Netflix's horror anthology will next take inspiration from 'The Turn of the Screw' by Henry James and is due in 2020.

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00:00Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House is returning for a second season.

00:11Well, sort of. As part of creator Mike Flanagan and executive producer Trevor Macy's new

00:16multi-year deal with Netflix, the streaming giant is turning The Haunting into an anthology series.

00:22Netflix made the announcement on Thursday that when the show returns in 2020,

00:25the Supernatural horror series will look vastly different from its hit first season,

00:30with a fresh coat of paint and a new name, The Haunting of Bly Manor.

00:34The first season drew inspiration from Shirley Jackson's famous The Haunting of Hill House novel.

00:39We're not like any other family. We're different because of where we grew up.

00:48Hill House.

00:48But The Haunting of Bly Manor takes on a different story altogether. Henry James' The Turn of the Screw.

00:54The 1898 novella depicts an Essex country house and a governess who has been hired to look after a pair of siblings.

01:01Her work gets severely complicated, though, by the apparent existence of several ghosts around the manor,

01:06as well as the grip they may hold over the children.

01:09Now, it remains to be seen whether the actors from the show's breakout first season will be returning

01:14in different roles, as we've seen in Ryan Murphy's signature horror franchise American Horror Story.

01:18But Flanagan does have a track record of working with the same actors across numerous projects.

01:23Your mother, she was not crazy.

01:29Neither was your sister, neither is your brother, neither are you.

01:32For more on The Haunting Season 2, head to THR.com.

01:35Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.