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 just consciously starting as at the passage before
my door of a light footstep''I see ghosts everywhere' wrote Henry James who retained a
fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. This new
collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny including his infamous
ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw' a work saturated with evil in which a fraught governess
becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care. The other
masterly works here include 'The Jolly Corner' 'Owen Wingrave' and further tales of
visitations premonitions madness grief and family secrets where the living are just as
mysterious and unknowable as the dead. With an introduction and notes by Susie BoytGeneral
Editor Philip Horne
