Which book by Henry James is known as a horror/pschological thriller?
“The Turn of the Screw.” What’s really cool about the book is that James is so cunningly ambiguous – you can’t be sure whether the ghosts are real, or whether the governess is completely mad. It’s fascinating how the story can go either way, depending on how you interpret the details. Basically, the story is about a governess at a country house who believes that the two children she is teaching are being haunted by two former employees of the house. She sees visions of the “ghosts” all over the house and grounds, and becomes convinced the children are in terrible danger of being possessed. But James leaves open the possibility that the governess is crazy and hallucinating, and it’s possible that she (or one of the ghosts) kills one of the children at the end of the novel. The title comes from a quote at the beginning of the book. Several characters are sitting around telling ghost stories, and one mentions that ghost stories about children are especially horrifying, and a haunting of T
