Book guide
The Turn of the Screw
A governess sees ghosts—but the greater horror may be doubt.
Genre and trope pairingsHorrorUnreliable narratorHorrorGhostsHorrorIsolationParanormalGhostsParanormalHaunted houseLiteraryUnreliable narrator
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About The Turn of the Screw
A young governess is sent to a country house to care for two orphaned children. As she senses a malevolent presence stalking them, Henry James turns the haunting into a famously ambiguous study of fear and perception.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- child-death
- implied-child-sexual-abuse
- death
- mental-illness
- parental-neglect
- implied-satanism
