Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor (adapted from Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw) resonated with horror fans because it dared to be a “love story, not a ghost story.” It replaced cheap jump scares with lingering background apparitions, poignant gothic tragedy, and a heartbreaking exploration of grief and memory loss.
If you loved the foggy manor grounds, hidden lady-in-the-lake lore, and emotional dread of Bly Manor, here are 8 of the best gothic, atmospheric, and ghost-story series available on streaming in India.
8 Gothic Romance & Haunted Estate Horror Series Like ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’
1. The Haunting of Hill House
- Format: Limited Series (10 Episodes)
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
- Audio: English (Original), Hindi Dubbed
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 10/10
The Narrative Parallel:
The direct precursor to Bly Manor, this series alternates between the summer of 1992—when the Crain family lived inside the sprawling, malevolent Hill House—and modern day, where the surviving adult siblings and their estranged father must confront the unresolved trauma of the night they fled.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
Directed by Mike Flanagan and featuring many of the same cast members (Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas), Hill House is the definitive modern haunted-house masterwork. It shares the same philosophy: the ghosts lurking in the shadows are manifestations of grief, guilt, and family estrangement.
2. Marianne
- Format: 1 Season (8 Episodes)
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
- Audio: French (Original), Hindi Dubbed
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 9/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Emma Larsimon, a successful horror novelist, announces the end of her bestselling book franchise centered on a witch named Marianne. When a childhood friend commits suicide and claims Marianne is real, Emma returns to her foggy, isolated coastal hometown, discovering that the malevolent entity she wrote about is terrorizing the residents to force her to keep writing.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
Marianne nails the chilly, coastal European atmosphere. It is significantly more terrifying than Bly Manor, but fans of layered folklore, ancestral curses, and slow-building psychological dread will find it relentlessly engaging.
3. Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- Format: 1 Season (8 Episodes Anthology)
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
- Audio: English (Original), Hindi Dubbed
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 8.5/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Curated by Academy Award-winner Guillermo del Toro, this anthology brings together visionary horror directors to adapt classic macabre literature from authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Emily Carroll, and Henry Kuttner.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
Episodes like “The Murmuring” (directed by Jennifer Kent and starring Bly Manor’s Essie Davis and Andrew Lincoln) deal directly with grieving ornithologists staying in an isolated, haunted coastal manor. It offers the same elegant, period-gothic filmmaking and emotional resonance.
4. Penny Dreadful
- Format: 3 Seasons (Complete)
- Streaming Platform: JioHotstar
- Audio: English (Original)
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 8.5/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Set in Victorian London, medium Vanessa Ives (Eva Green), explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, and American gunslinger Ethan Chandler navigate the supernatural underworld, crossing paths with literary legends including Victor Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and Dracula.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
Penny Dreadful is the gold standard for Victorian gothic romance and period horror. Eva Green’s tour-de-force performance, lavish period production design, poetic dialogue, and tragic romantic subplots will completely enchant viewers who appreciate the literary roots of Bly Manor.
5. Yellowjackets
- Format: 2 Seasons (Ongoing)
- Streaming Platform: JioHotstar / Prime Video
- Audio: English (Original), Hindi Dubbed
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 8/10
The Narrative Parallel:
In 1996, a championship high school girls’ soccer team survives a plane crash deep in the remote Canadian wilderness, slowly descending into savage, supernatural-tinged cult factions across 19 months of isolation. Twenty-five years later, the surviving adults must prevent the dark secrets of what occurred in the woods from leaking out.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
Much like the dual-timeline structure and psychological haunting in Bly Manor, Yellowjackets is anchored in how past trauma and collective guilt continue to haunt survivors decades after the fact. The ensemble acting is top-tier and the slow-burn psychological tension is pervasive.
6. The Terror
- Format: Season 1 (10 Episodes)
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
- Audio: English (Original)
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 8/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Based on Dan Simmons’ historical novel, two Royal Navy expedition ships attempting to find the Northwest Passage in 1845 become hopelessly frozen in Arctic ice. As supplies dwindle and scurvy sets in, the crew must contend with starvation, mutiny, and an unearthly predatory beast stalking them across the tundra.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
It offers an uncompromising, claustrophobic masterclass in slow-burn dread. The psychological unraveling of the officers and the somber, respectful treatment of mortality match Mike Flanagan’s restrained storytelling style.
7. Shining Vale
- Format: 2 Seasons
- Streaming Platform: JioCinema / Lionsgate Play
- Audio: English (Original)
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 7.5/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Pat Phelps (Courteney Cox), a formerly successful author trying to save her marriage, moves her dysfunctional family into a sprawling, 200-year-old Victorian mansion in Connecticut where horrific murders once took place. Soon, Pat starts seeing a 1950s ghost (Mira Sorvino) that only she can perceive, leaving her unsure if she is possessed or suffering from clinical depression.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
This is a modern horror-comedy that plays on classic haunted-estate tropes. It examines how domestic isolation, writer’s block, and historical house curses intertwine, offering a lighter, snarky spin on the Turn of the Screw formula.
8. Ghoul
- Format: Limited Series (3 Episodes)
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
- Audio: Hindi (Original)
- Match for Bly Manor Fans: 7.5/10
The Narrative Parallel:
Set in a dystopian covert military interrogation facility, newly recruited interrogator Nida Rahim (Radhika Apte) arrives to question a notorious dissident, only to realize the prisoner has summoned an ancient Arabic ghoul that uses the interrogators’ deepest personal guilts and secrets to turn them against each other.
Why Fans of Bly Manor Will Love It:
If you want an authentic Hindi horror limited series with claustrophobic, atmospheric dread, Ghoul delivers a tightly scripted three-episode chamber piece where the true monster feeds on psychological guilt and buried sins.
Where to Begin Your Watchlist
- For the direct companion piece with the exact same creative team: Watch The Haunting of Hill House.
- For lush Victorian gothic romance and dark literary figures: Start with Penny Dreadful.
- For chilling coastal European folklore and manor dread: Queue up Marianne.
