8 Scary TV Treats Coming This Halloween

When & Where: Available now on Netflix

Shirley Jackson's 1959 haunted house novel, one of the masterpieces of psychological horror, has been twice adapted for the big screen with the 1963 classic The Haunting and its dreadful 1999 remake. This 10-part Netflix series is the first attempt, though, to bring Jackson's book to the small screen.

Oculus director Mike Flanagan has brought Netflix their most acclaimed horror pictures with both Hush and Gerald's Game, so now the streaming giant have given him a whole TV series to play with.

Rather than directly adapt Jackson's novel, in which a group of strangers gather at a mansion with a dark past to assist a scientist hoping to prove the existence of the supernatural, Flanagan's series mostly just takes names and some incidents and character traits to construct an original story about a family haunted both literally and figuratively by the events at the titular house in both the past and present.

As with Oculus, Flanagan is a sure hand when it comes to both tension building horror set pieces and in juggling between the trauma of powerful dark supernatural forces and the equally horrific idea of losing control to a family tendency toward madness and losing grip on reality.

Released in full last week, The Haunting Of Hill House has already caused sleepless nights through both its disturbing content and the bingeability of its content. Some of you may have already seen it, but for others it's a treat worth saving for Halloween itself.