The Turn of the Screw

About this edition

Two children. An isolated country house. A governess who fears they are not alone.

When a young governess arrives at Bly to care for Miles and Flora, she finds two charming children and a position that seems full of promise. Their guardian has given her one firm instruction: she must manage everything herself and never trouble him.

Then unfamiliar figures begin to appear on the grounds. As she learns of the household's troubled past, the governess becomes convinced that something sinister has returned for the children. Their composure offers little reassurance. Are they unaware of the danger, or concealing a knowledge she cannot reach?

Determined to protect them, she watches more closely. Every silence becomes a possible secret. Every gesture invites suspicion. And the harder she searches for certainty, the more unsettling life at Bly becomes.

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw draws its terror from the fragile boundary between what is seen, what is believed, and what can be proved. This collector's edition pairs the novella with original illustrations and a biography of James, offering readers a visual companion to the story and an introduction to its author.

For readers of Gothic fiction and psychological suspense, this is a haunting whose deepest mysteries linger beyond the final page.

Features original illustrations and a biography of Henry James.