The Turn Of The Screw

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collieramp39s Weekly magazine January 27 ampndash April 16 1898. In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story the novella focuses on a governess who caring for two children at a remote estate becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted.In the century following its pu