The turn of the screw and other ghost stories - Henry James

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny

'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far,
the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just
consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light
footstep'

'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who
retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout
his writing career. This new collection brings together eight of James's
tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The
Turn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraught
governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the
children in her care. The other masterly works here include 'The Jolly
Corner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions,
madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just as
mysterious and unknowable as the dead.

With an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt
General Editor Philip Horne