![]() Like Nell, Theodora is a pretty faithful reinterpretation of a character from the book, right down to a lot of specific lines, moments, and scares—more so than any other character. In the novel, Luke’s last name is Sanderson. One we caught: Luke’s rehab is called the Sanderson Center. The house’s caretakers, the Dudleys, are straight out of the book their daughter Abigail is also a name lifted from text, although she’s Hugh Crain’s daughter in the original.There are probably other fun references hidden away in the show, waiting to be discovered. The elder Crain siblings, Shirley and Steve, are likely references to Shirley Jackson and Stephen King, a master horror writer like the show character and an on-the-record fanatic of the book. Here, he’s the kindly, erratic patriarch. Jacoby on Twin Peaks—a nice double reference for horror fans.)In the novel, Hugh Crain is the name of the villainous man who built Hill House. (He’s played by Russ Tamblyn, who was not only in the 1963 adaptation of Jackson’s book, The Haunting, but also played Laura Palmer’s psychiatrist Dr. Montague, which is also the name of Nell’s psychiatrist on the show. Nell’s siblings, Theo and Luke, are also names lifted from the book they’re the two other members of the team who investigates Hill House’s paranormal properties. Both of them die on Hill House’s property. A lot of their character traits are similar, too: Eleanor is psychically drawn to the house in both stories, and also feels isolated and unseen by the rest of the world. This is the same name as the protagonist in Jackson’s book, who also goes by Nell for short. The most obvious is probably Nell, whose full married name in the show is Eleanor Vance. The namesĪ lot of the names in the series are transplanted from the novel. Steven Crain recites the paragraph from his nonfiction account of the family’s stay at Hill House. There are some variations to account for the difference in adaptations, and the version that closes out the season is far more saccharine than Jackson’s more ambiguous, spooky ending, but it’s a nice narrative callback. The same paragraph bookends the novel and the show. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
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