The weird part about the book it sets up outside of the story. There's a separate there's like a framing narrative that actually we never return to. The question along the way is did this really happen or not? And there's kind of two elements to it. Was this person ever a real person the person telling the story and did what happened actually happen to her or did she kind of make it all up? Those are the two questions.
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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