The Turn of the Screw and Other Tales

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. 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. 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. With an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne

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Remarkably vivid and disquieting . . . Whether this beloved 19th-century novella retains the power to frighten you depends on the degree to which you ve ever questioned your own senses or doubted your sanity. . . . A classic of Gothic literature, prized for its ambiguity and sophistication.   The New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Susie Boyt, Philip Horne, Henry James
• Assisted by: Susie Boyt (Editor), Boyt Susie (Editor), Philip Horne (Editor), Horne Philip (Editor), Susie Boyt (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.10.2017
• EAN: 9780141389752
• ISBN: 978-0-14-138975-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Ghost, Classic fiction, Classic horror and ghost stories