The Turn of the Screw

Henry James's 1898 novella is perhaps the most ambiguous and unsettling ghost story ever written. A young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two orphaned children, only to become convinced that the grounds are haunted by the malevolent spirits of her predecessors. But are the ghosts real, or is she descending into madness? James never tells us, and that uncertainty has made this tale a favorite of readers and scholars for over a century. This Raven's Gate Classics edition presents the complete original text.