The book on which the movie is based, Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House," is even scarier than the movie.
One of my fave scary movies ---sometimes shown on PBS ----is "The Innocents" starring Deborah Kerr, set in a mid-Victorian English countryside estate, based on Henry James' book "Turn of the Screw."
I will check those out! I love novels set in the Victorian era. I even like all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Of course they are very tame by today's standards. But it 's fun to sit by the fire with Sherlock and Dr. Watson in their Baker Street flat.