The Haunting of Bly Manor: Creepy dolls feature in chilling first trailer for Haunting of Hill House sequel

All nine episodes of season two will be released on 9 October

Netflix has released the first trailer for the highly anticipated second season of The Haunting of Hill House.

The new teaser clip was unveiled on the streaming giant’s Twitter account on Monday night (31 August). It was also announced that all nine episodes will land on 9 October.

Netflix broke the silence on the forthcoming series last week when it revealed a first look at the follow-up season to the horror hit.

It was announced that the characters featured in Hill House would not feature in the second series; instead, the majority of the cast will return playing new characters.

While 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House adapted Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name, The Haunting of Bly Manor takes its inspiration from Henry James’s 1898 seminal gothic romance, The Turn of the Screw.

Spooky dolls feature heavily in the teaser trailer for The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix)

The teaser clip has received nearly 35,000 likes since it was shared last night. If the video is anything to go by, dark basements, possessed toys and creepy dollhouses will feature heavily in the forthcoming season.

Speaking to Vanity Fair, director Mike Flanagan divulged that the ghosts hidden in the background of Hill House will finally be explained in the second season: “By the end of the season, you’re going to know who they are and why they’re there.”

Flanagan also said that Bly Manor will deal with smaller-scale horrors than its predecessor, which dealt primarily with intergenerational family trauma. The filmmaker said viewers can expect a story of tragic, star-crossed love.

Flora Wingrave (Amelie Smith) has a message for ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ fans (Eike Schroter/Netflix)

The series will focus on a young woman who, after moving to the English countryside to look after two orphaned children, collides with unexplained entities.

Victoria Pedretti, who played Nell in Hill House, takes the lead as the tutor who arrives at a stately manor to look after the Wingrave children.

Others to return include Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who will be playing a villain this time around.