This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader more fully appreciate the rich complexity of James' language, images, and symbols.Before there was Alfred Hitchcock, there was Henry James, and before Psycho, there was The Turn of the Screw.Why is the young governess the only one who can see the ghosts?Are her young charges haunted or evil?Or is the governess herself mad?The book that claims to start out as a Christmas Eve ghost story quickly becomes a tale of psychological horror as the governess struggles-and ultimately fails-to protect the children from the "corruption" that only she can conceive of...but cannot name.Richly wrought in Late-Victorian prose, Henry James' most famous novel is both hauntingly beautiful and a shocking glimpse into the ultimate source of evil...the human mind.
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
James, The Aspern Papers
This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction.
Print and Electronic Sources Sherri L. Brown, Carol Senf, Ellen J. Stockstill. Vieira, Mark A. Hollywood Horror: From Gothic to ... 2 vols. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. 810 pp. Wetmore, Kevin J. Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema ...
The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and ...
Wiseman's documentaries focus on peoples' experiences in various institutions or sites—schools, hospitals, towns, government/welfare agency sites, prisons, stores, parks, etc. He shows long segments of people interacting with each other ...
Includes Ann Radcliff's touchstone essay, "On the Supernatural in Poetry," along with brief author biographies.
"Based on the original edition by William Flint Thrall and Addison Hibbard." Alphabetic entries define, explain, and illustrate terms associated with American and English literature.
... Sweeney Todd, and well might the little old lapidary start as such a very unpre-possessing-looking personage addressed him. 'You deal,' he said, ...
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