`The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales.
But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave, or victims of the governess's `infernal imagination', which torments but also entrals her?
Like the other tales collected here - `Sir Edmund Orme', `Owen Wingrave', and `The Friends of the Friends' - `The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house.
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