The Turn of the Screw is Henry James’s most famous and unsettling ghost story, a masterpiece of psychological ambiguity. Hired to care for two orphaned children at a remote country estate, a young governess becomes convinced that the house is haunted—and that the children are in mortal danger.
As the tension slowly tightens, James blurs the line between supernatural horror and psychological breakdown. What is truly seen, and what is imagined? The Turn of the Screw endures as a chilling exploration of fear, repression, and the power of the mind to create its own terrors.