It's kind of interesting how little you don't get a lot of her backstory. You're really just confronted with this setting these bizarre little children and the housekeeper and then some ghosts. It's kind of sounds like this book is it informs a lot of the ghost story tropes that we're still living with to this daylike creepy precocious kids check like old buildings check. That was already present at the times James was writing it.
What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn of the Screw.
This week Andrew mangles words, Craig gets lost in James' Victorian prose, and the two solve the mystery surrounding the ghosts of Bly.
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