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. His best-known works include Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The American Scene. 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. James was a prolific writer his writings include 22 novels, 113 tales, 15 plays, approximately 10 books of criticism, and 7 travel books. 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. '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' The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 6, 'The Jolly Corner,' is named after a Henry James story thats about a rather unusual kind of ghost. An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny
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