Editions

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511236

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £5.99

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

  • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Friends of the Friends and The Jolly Corner

*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*

Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.

A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is watching her.

'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099511236

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 181g

  • RRP: £5.99

Reviews

  • A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale

    Oscar Wilde

  • It really does turn your blood cold

    Colm Tóibín

  • Technically, he is extraordinarily brilliant, and stylistically he's wonderful

    David Lodge

  • Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry

    Graham Greene

  • [James] is the most intelligent man of his generation

    T. S. Eliot

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About the Author

James Henry

James Henry is the pen name for James Gurbutt, who has long been a fan of the original R. D. Wingfield Frost books and the subsequent TV series. He works in publishing, and enjoys windsurfing and long lunches. After a successful career writing for radio, R. D. Wingfield turned his attention to fiction, creating the character of Jack Frost. The series has been adapted for television as the perennially popular A Touch of Frost, starring David Jason. R. D. Wingfield died in 2007.

James Henry

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