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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James is a gothic horror novella published in 1898. A young governess arrives at a remote country estate to care for two children, only to become convinced that supernatural forces haunt the grounds. As she witnesses mysterious figures and grows increasingly alarmed by the children's behavior, the line between reality and imagination blurs. This unsettling tale has captivated readers for over a century with its deliberate ambiguity, leaving the true nature of the horror chillingly uncertain. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Horror and Occult”. Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the description, “occult” in the subject metadata, and “supernatural” in the subject metadata.

    • “Horror and Occult”· via Global Grey ebooks
    • “supernatural”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “supernatural”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “ghost” and “Ghosts”. Retained metadata contains “ghost” in the subject metadata.

    • “Ghosts”· via Open Library
    • “ghost”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “ghost”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 563 editions; 3 cataloged here.

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Open Library record

2008Project GutenbergEnglish—Public

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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1995-02-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 563 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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openlibrary-work:OL276386W
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