THE HAUNTING
The supernatural horror show The Haunting of Hill House scared the bejeezus out of viewers when it came out in 2018. It tells the story of the troubled Crain family and their history in the mysterious Hill House.
This Netflix hit was inspired by the novel The Haunting of Hill House (1959) written by Shirley Jackson (of “The Lottery” fame), adapted into a 1963 film of the same name.
Though they both center on the Hill House, there are a lot of differences between the book and the show, notably that the Netflix show is set in the present day with flashbacks to the 1990s.
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THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
While everyone is familiar with the Marvel and DC movies and shows, it may surprise you to learn that the tragicomic Netflix show The Umbrella Academy is also based on a series of comic books.
Written by Gerard Way, illustrated by Gabriel Bá, and first published in 2007, The Umbrella Academy comic books tell the story of a dysfunctional family of superheroes brought together by eccentric millionaire Dr. Reginald Hargreeves. The series, published by Dark Horse Comics, got favorable critical responses and won a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award in 2008.
MUDBOUND
You’re a lucky writer if your debut novel is turned into a film that is shown at Sundance (now available via, you guessed it, Netflix). You’re insanely lucky if that film happens to star Mary J. Blige and Carey Mulligan.
That’s the case with Hillary Jordan’s 2008 novel Mudbound about the McAllen family, who move from Memphis to a cotton farm in Mississippi in the mid-1940s. Every time it rains, the land on the farm turns into thick, black mud—which gives the story its name. The film and the movie both deal with the relationship between the white McAllen family and the black Jackson family (tenant farmers) as they struggle to survive in all that mud.
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