The other masterly works here include 'The Jolly Corner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions, madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just as mysterious and unknowable as the dead. This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'The Turn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care. 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep'
Be the first to submit one! You must be logged in to submit a review in the BookTrackr section above.An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny There are currently no reviews for this novel. No excerpt currently exists for this novel. The Real Right Thing - (1899) - short story.The Turn of the Screw - (1898) - novella.
The Friends of the Friends - (1896) - novelette The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 6, 'The Jolly Corner,' is named after a Henry James story thats about a rather unusual kind of ghost. The Ghostly Rental - (1876) - novelette. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes - (1868) - short story A chilling new collection of Henry Jamess short stories exploring the uncanny In The Turn of the Screw, one of the most famous ghost stories of all t. James story ‘A Vignette’ was probably based on his own paranormal experience. The two writers did in fact meet when MRJ visited Rye in Sussex in August 1903. Introduction (2001) - essay by Martin Scofield James’ publisher, Edward Arnold, thought that American-British writer Henry James, author of the classic ghost story The Turn of the Screw, was Monty’s brother. The volume also includes James's great novella The Turn of the Screw, perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling 'Owen Wingrave', which is also a subtle parable of military tradition 'The Friends of the Friends', a strange story of uncanny love and 'The Private Life', which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. The stories range widely in tone and type. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. 
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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