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The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James
Narrated by: Simon Vance, Vanessa Benjamin
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 One of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves are silent. Are they being dominated by spectral forces, or are they hiding something? Is the governess simply paranoid, or is something else going on?

With its possibly ambiguous content and powerful narrative technique, the story challenges the listener to determine if the unnamed governess is correctly reporting events or is instead an unreliable neurotic with an overheated imagination.

©2006 Henry James (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Philosophy Psychological Society Horror Fiction
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The portrayal of the female characters feels overwrought and the story is very thin. Maybe it is just hasn’t aged well. Simon Vance’s narration is the only positive in my view.

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This story is so haunting and is actually surprisingly unlike the films based on it. The question of whether there really are spirits, or whether the governess is hallucinating, becomes a tantalising underscore that is not really answered. I guess it’s up to the reader to deduce…performed excellently, especially given the voluble nature of writing in those days. I loved this.

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