Turn of the Screw

“He was there or was not there; not there if I didn’t see him.” One of the world’s most famous ghost stories, Turn of the Screw is a hauntingly atmospheric tale of shadows, lurking dread and psychological menace in which a young governess, hired to care for two orphaned children, struggles to protect her charges from the demonic influence of the eerie apparitions of two former household servants. Is the threat to the children really that of a ghostly and malevolent presence… or something else entirely? With its unreliable narrator and pervading sense of unease and uncertainty, Turn of the Screw is a strange and deeply unsettling ghost story that continues to spark academic debate and has inspired countless film, stage and television adaptations and re-workings including the The Innocents (1961) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020). Born in the United States in 1843, Henry James largely relocated to Europe as a young man and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1