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The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
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A young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two eerily perfect children — and begins to suspect the house is haunted by the ghosts of two sinister former servants. James's ambiguous masterpiece of psychological horror has terrified and baffled readers for over a century.
Author: Henry James
Genre: Gothic / Horror
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention.
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