In 1898, Henry James published The Turn of the Screw in four installments in Colliers magazine. The novella tells the story of the governess of two young children at an isolated country house, and her increasing, though possibly unjustified, conviction that the house is haunted by the former caretaker and governess. A famously ambiguous story that defies easy analysis, The Turn of the Screw is one of the most influential and critically debated fictions of the twentieth century.
