henry james the turn of the screw and other stories

The other masterly works here include 'The Jolly Corner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions, madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just as mysterious and unknowable as the dead. The Turn of the Screw, novella by Henry James, published serially in Colliers Weekly in 1898 and published in book form later that year. This new collection brings together eight of Jamess tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, a work saturated. This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care.

Like the other tales collected here - Sir Edmund. An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep' 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. It is Peter Quint, the masters dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles.

Henry james the turn of the screw and other stories