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An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny
'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 justconsciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a lightfootstep'
'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, whoretained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughouthis writing career. This new collection brings together eight of James'stales exploring the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, 'TheTurn of the Screw', a work saturated with evil, in which a fraughtgoverness becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing thechildren in her care. The other masterly works here include 'The JollyCorner', 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of visitations, premonitions,madness, grief and family secrets, where the living are just asmysterious and unknowable as the dead.
With an introduction and notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne