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EMPIRE IS SHOCKED. Mike Flanagan, director of Doctor Sleep and creator of three of TV’s scariest mini-series (The Haunting Of Hill House, The Haunting Of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass), has just admitted he couldn’t handle horror until well into his teens. “I would fake being sick at sleepovers if they were going to watch a horror movie,” he says. “I could only watch scary stuff through my fingers.”