Midnight Mass creator Mike Flanagan is developing another Netflix horror series in the form of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Flanagan created the show and serves as an executive producer, reported Variety. He will direct four episodes in the limited series. Flanagan's Intrepid Pictures partner Trevor Macy, Emmy Grinwis and Michael Fimognari will also serve as executive producers, with Intrepid Pictures’ Melinda Nishioka co-executive producing.
The Fall of the House of Usher gets its name from Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story. Poe's tale, a work of Gothic horror, follows its unnamed narrator as they travel to help their friend, Roderick Usher, at his crumbling estate in the countryside, only to uncover the dark and disturbing secrets hiding within its walls. Much like the second installment in Flanagan's The Haunting anthology series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, adapts and re-imagines several horror stories by Henry James, Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher adapts multiple Poe works, starting with the titular one.
Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher marks his latest collaboration with Netflix after the first two seasons of The Haunting (The Haunting of Hill House and Bly Manor), Midnight Mass, his 2017 movie adaptation of the Stephen King horror novel Gerald's Game and 2016's Hush, an original horror/thriller that Flanagan directed and co-wrote with the film's star and his frequent collaborator, Kate Siegel (who Flanagan is also married to).
Despite being based on classic horror literature, The Fall of the House of Usher is reportedly a standalone series and not the third season of The Haunting anthology. "If the stars align in such a way that we decide to go back into the Haunting world, it would have to be so much on that track that we've set up," said Flanagan, discussing the potential Haunting Season 3 back in September. "It would have to be with the right piece of IP, it would have to be with the right ghost-centric story, and it would have to really fit with Bly [Manor] and Hill House."
The Fall of the House of Usher has yet to receive an official premiere date. Flanagan's other horror series, including Midnight Mass, are now streaming on Netflix.
Source: Variety