The Turn of the Screw (Legend Classics)

<div><b>Soon to be adapted into the Netflix series <i>The Haunting of Bly Manor</i></b><br><b>Recently adapted into the major motion picture <i>The Turning</i> starring Finn Wolfhard</b><br><b>Recently adapted into an opera in London''s West End</b><p><i>No, no—there are depths, depths!<br> The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear.<br> I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!</i></p><p>In this classic gothic horror ghost story, we follow a young governess and her deep psychological anguish. It begins when she agrees to care for two orphans living in a remote estate, and her sudden conviction that the grounds are haunted.</p><p>Henry James used the horror genre to imbue the everyday with the uncanny and the unknown. A true measure of his success can be found in the debates still raging today: on topics of the characters'' sanity, the concept of truth in fiction, and the extent to which James manipulates the reader.</p><p>Written with such exquisite ambiguity, this book will call into question everything you know—but, in <i>The Turn of the Screw</i>, not knowing the truth might be a blessing.</p></div>