The Fall of House Usher by Mike Flanagan Poe on Netflix

The Flanagan Cinematic Boo-niverse continues to grow at Netflix. After his last television series, Midnight Mass, the streamer announced Flanagan’s involvement in two other spooky works.

Today, Netflix said that Flanagan’s next project for the company will be the previously announced The midnight club– Trevor Macy’s director and production company Intrepid Pictures, an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel of the same name. The series will include several of Pike’s other YA horror novels, weaving a story around a group of terminally ill children in a hospice who meet at midnight to tell each other spooky stories. After making a pact that the first of their group to break through will attempt to reach out to the remaining children from beyond the grave, they find themselves immersed in stranger and more frightening events than even their worst stories could have imagined.

But that’s not all Flanagan does: Netflix also announced that the director’s next project will dive back into classic spooky literature with The Fall of House Usher. Just like his hauntings, this will be an eight-episode limited series that Flanagan will produce and co-direct (four episodes will be directed by his longtime collaborator and To all the boys director of sequels Michael Fimognari). The new series, as the title suggests, is an adaptation of several iconic works of Gothic prose and poetry from Edgar Allen Poe. It takes its name from the 1839 short story, which revolves around an unnamed narrator invited into the Usher family estate by his ailing siblings Roderick and Madeline – only to uncover great stories about the haunted sensibility of the house. and Brother Usher’s slow descent into frightful hysteria. The story was famously adapted in 1960 as the Bailiff’s House, directed by Roger Corman and starring the one and only Vincent Price.

What other works from Poe Flanagan and Fimognari’s catalog will be inspired by The Fall of House Usher remains to be seen, but suffice it to say that the director is going to be pretty busy delivering tons of ghosts to Netflix for the foreseeable future.

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