# The Turn of the Screw

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Opera

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Turn+of+the+Screw+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had su...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-turn-of-the-screw-209/chapters/10/index.md)