The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is Henry James's most unsettling experiment in Gothic compression: a framed tale in which an unnamed governess, charged with protecting two precocious children at Bly, confronts-or imagines-the malign apparitions of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Its style is oblique, syntactically intricate, and intensely psychological, converting the ghost story into a drama of interpretation. Published in 1898, it stands at the crossroads of Victorian supernatural fiction, fin-de-siècle a ...