Classics Horror 2003

Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Published in Spanish as La vuelta de tuerca

The story starts conventionally enough with friends sharing ghost stories 'round the fire on Christmas Eve.

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What it is

A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · properly scary

What happens in it

Unreliable narrator

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How it's told

Its world
A touch of the supernatural
Style
Literary

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
  • you like a book that leaves you uneasy
  • you like fitting the pieces of a mystery together

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