The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
4/5
Penguin Classics 96 pages January 1, 1898
A young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two seemingly angelic children, only to become convinced that the grounds are haunted by the ghosts of former servants. James's masterfully ambiguous novella leaves readers debating whether the ghosts are real or products of an unstable mind.
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Under a hundred pages and scholars have been arguing about it for over a century — now THAT is efficient horror. Jim loves a good unreliable narrator, and the governess is the queen of the form. Are the ghosts real? Is she losing her mind? James will never tell, and that ambiguity is what makes it immortal. Read it three times and you may come away with a different answer each time. Brilliantly unsettling.
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