Retold for younger readers, Henry James' classic horror story tells
the tale of a haunted house, two children, and the governess who tries
to save them
Published in 1898, The Turn of the Screw is his best-known horror
story. A young, inexperienced governess watches Miles and Flora, the two
small children who are abandoned by their uncle at his grand country
house. When the governess senses an intense evil within the house, she
becomes obsessed that ghosts are trying to harm the children. She sees
the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It
is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little
Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. This retelling has been shortened and
illustrated for younger readers.