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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online [at](at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not)[ ](at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not)[www.gutenberg.org](at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not)[. If you are not](at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not) located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.  \nTitle: The Turn of the Screw  \nAuthor: Henry James  \nRelease date: February 1, 1995 [eBook \\#209]  \nMost recently updated: July 25, 2026 Language: English  \n[Other information and formats:](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209)[ ](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209)[www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/209)  \nCredits: Judith Boss  \n*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TURN OF THE  \nSCREW ***  \nThe Turn of the  \nScrew  \nby Henry James  \nContents  \nTHE TURN OF THE SCREW I  \nII III IV V VI VII VIII IX XXI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIXXXXXIXXII XXIII XXIV  \nTHE TURN OF THE SCREW  \nThe story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind.  \n“I quite agree—in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was—that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming kind that I know to have involved a child. If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?”  \n“We say, of course,” somebody exclaimed,“that they give two turns! Also that we want to hear about them.”  \nI can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his interlocutor with his hands in his pockets. “Nobody but me, till now, has ever heard. It’s quite too horrible.” This, naturally, was declared by several voices to give the thing the utmost price, and our friend, with quiet art, prepared his triumph by turning his eyes over the rest of us and going on: “It’s beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.”  \n“For sheer terror?” I remember asking.  \nHe seemed to say it was not so simple as that; to be really at a losshow to qualify it. He passed his hand over his eyes, made a little wincing grimace.“For dreadful—dreadfulness!”  \n“Oh, how delicious!” cried one of the women.  \nHe took no notice of her; he looked at me, but as if, instead of me, he saw what he spoke of.“For general uncanny ugliness and horror and pain.”  \n“Well then,” I said,“just sit right down and begin.”  \nHe turned round to the fire, ","cbCaifiHtIAB0QKL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifiHtIAB0QKL","pdf",536420,121,"English","# The Story\n## Framing Conversation and the First Visitation\n## Douglas’s Delay and the Written Record\n## The Governess Background","[{\"question\":\"What sets the story’s frame on Christmas Eve?\",\"answer\":\"A strange tale is discussed by people gathered around a fire, beginning with the observation that a visitation occurred to a child in an old house on Christmas Eve.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Douglas postpone telling the story at first?\",\"answer\":\"He says the story is written and has been kept in a locked drawer for years, implying he must send for the key and obtain the packet.\"},{\"question\":\"What connection does Douglas reveal about the manuscript?\",\"answer\":\"He explains that he recorded only the impression in his own mind, while the manuscript was written in old, faded ink in a woman’s hand; the pages were sent to him before she died.\"}]","The Turn of the Screw - read online free | PDF",1791066852,186]