The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Synopsis

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of miles and flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is peter quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little miles. But peter quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - `sir edmund orme', `owen wingrave', and `the friends of the friends' - `the turn of the screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story. But are the appearances what they seem?