- English
- catalog edition 1898
The Turn of the Screw
By the comforts of a blazing fireplace on a cold Christmas Eve night, guests at a holiday party share stories of phantoms and ghosts of Christmases past. Yet one guest delivers a tale of sheer fright for which no one listening was prepared. As the story goes, after losing both parents, a young boy and girl move into a large wooded estate to be held under the care of their uncle. Wanting nothing to do with raising the children, the uncle hires a young governess to attend to their care. Yet the governess never could have anticipated the horrors that await her discovery. When it becomes evident that the children have some supernatural connection with a deceased former governess and her lover, the young governess finds herself scrambling to regain control of two children slipping away from her grasp. This classic horror tale is now a hit Hollywood movie called "The Turning" starring Finn Wolfhard from Stranger Things and the 2020 Netflix miniseries The Haunting of Bly Manor
155
pages
~5h
estimated · 30 pages/hour
the reading room
Keep the thread going.
One quiet exit, after the marks that matter.