# The Turn of the Screw

**Author:** Henry James
**Tags:** England, Psychological fiction, Governesses, Ghost stories, Children
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/95886

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At a remote English country estate called Bly, a newly hired governess accepts sole responsibility for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, under strict instructions never to trouble their guardian with problems from the household. What begins as an idyllic post soon darkens as she glimpses two strange figures on the grounds and in the windows of the old house, figures she comes to believe are the malevolent ghosts of a former valet and a previous governess, both dead under troubling circumstances. Convinced that the spirits are seeking to corrupt her young charges, the governess grows increasingly obsessed with protecting the children, even as their own behavior becomes unsettlingly evasive. Henry James constructs his tale as a manuscript read aloud by firelight, layering testimony within testimony until the line between supernatural menace and psychological delusion dissolves entirely. Told through the governess's own increasingly strained perspective, this taut, ambiguous ghost story has unsettled and divided readers for over a century, refusing to resolve whether its horrors are otherworldly or born of a mind under unbearable strain. A landmark of gothic fiction, it remains a masterclass in dread built from suggestion, silence, and doubt.