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Books : Literature & Fiction : Genre Fiction : Horror : Authors, A-Z : ( J ) : James, Henry
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I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong. After rising, in town, to meet his appeal, I had at all events a couple of very bad days - found myself doubtful again, felt indeed sure I had made a mistake. In this state of mind I spent the long hours of bumping, swinging coach that carried me to the stopping place at which I was to be met by a vehicle from the house...
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Eleven tales of terror, including Mary E. Wilkins' "The Lost Ghost," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body-Snatchers," "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost," by Wilkie Collins, and other gripping works by Charles Dickens, Henry James, J. S. LeFanu, Ralph Cram, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia Edwards, Fitz-James O’Brien, and M. R. James.
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To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating nouvelles, which represent the author in both his early and late phases. From the apparitions of evil that haunt the governess in “The Turn of the Screw” to the startling self-scrutiny of an egotistical man in “The Beast in the Jungle,” the mysterious turnings of human behavior are coolly and masterfully observed—proving Henry James to be a master of psychological insight as well as one of the finest prose stylists of modern English literature.
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The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes three rarely reprinted ghost stories from the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and "The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals.
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A young governess is hired by a man who has found himself responsible for his niece and nephew after the death of their parents. The man gives the governess full charge of the children and makes it clear he never wants to hear from her again. The governess travels to her new employer's house and begins her duties. Shortly thereafter, the boy, Miles, turns up after having been expelled from his school. The governess infers that the headmaster feels that Miles is a threat to the other boys.
The governess begins to see the figures of a man and woman whom she does not recognize, and does not believe can really be present, around the property. She learns that her predecessor, a Miss Jessel,
and her lover Peter Quint (another former servant of the household), a clever but abusive man, died under curious circumstances. Gradually, she becomes convinced that the pair are somehow manipulating the children, perhaps using them to continue their relationship from beyond the grave.
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Story-telling in the format of novella represents a significant part of horror fiction around the time of the Victorian Age. The first story is The Lifted Veil by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). The second story is Mr Justice Harbottle by Sheridan Le Fanu who helped craft the genre of ghost stories during his time. The third story is The Jolley Corner, which is often considered to be one of Henry James- best ghost stories.
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Este es el mas famoso relato del autor. En el podemos ver y oir claramente apariciones fantasmales. este efecto es el resultado de una estrategia teatral que penetra en el lector por medio de relaciones afortunadas entre un punto de vista narrativo y el lector.
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The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation. Due to its ambiguous content and narrative skill, the reader is challenged to determine if the protagonist, a nameless governess, is reliably reporting events or instead is some kind of neurotic with an overheated imagination.
To further muddy the waters, her written account of the experience is being read many years later at a Christmas house party by someone who claims to have known her. The account lends itself to many different interpretations, including those of a Freudian nature. Many critics have tried to determine what exactly is the nature of evil within the story.
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Some of the best classics of Gothic fiction (being a mixture of horror and romance) are included in this collection (with an active table of contents):
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole,
Vathek, William Beckford,
The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe,
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock,
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James,
The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux
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A manuscript written by a former governess, who is now dead, tells of her employer who is in charge of his niece and nephew. He employs her but has no interst in the children so doesn't want to hear anything more about them. When mysterious things begin to happen, she learns that the previous governess died under curious circumstances. She comes to believe that the children are communicating with her beyond the grave.
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There were other ghosts in his life than the ghost of Mary Antrim. He had perhaps not had more losses than most men, but he had counted his losses more; he hadn't seen death more closely, but had in a manner felt it more deeply. He had formed little by little the habit of numbering his Dead: it had come to him early in life that there was something one had to do for them. They were there in their simplified intensified essence, their conscious absence and expressive patience, as personally there as if they had only been stricken dumb. When all sense of them failed, all sound of them ceased, it was as if their purgatory were really still on earth: they asked so little that they got, poor things, even less, and died again, died everyday, of the hard usage of life. They had no organized service, no reserved place, no honor, no shelter, no safety. Even ungenerous people provided for the living, but even those who were called most generous did nothing for the others. So on George Stransom's part had grown up with the years a resolve that he at least would do something, do it, that is, for his own -- would perform the great charity without reproach. Every man _had_ his own, and every man had, to meet this charity, the ample resources of the soul.
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"Contents: The Upward Movement of the Eyes, Note on the Pain Sensations which accompany Deep Punctures, A Contribution to the Clinical Study of Schilder's Encephalitis, A Contribution to the Pathology of Hemichorea, Trigeminal Neuralgic Pain associated with Multiple Sclerosis, The Narcolepsies, Lipodystrophies: Report of Seven Cases, Ankle-Clonus: The Distinction of the Organic and Functional Varieties, Traumatic Aneurysm of the Intracranial Portion of the Internal Carotid, The Central Nervous Control of Micturition, Traumatic Pneumocephalus, Changes in Intracranial Pressure during Forced Drainage of the Central Nervous System: The Hydration Factor, The Clinical Differentiation of Psychogenic and Physiogenic Disorders, Oculogyric upon the Vascularity of the Human Occipital Lobe during Visual Activity, Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia, The Cerebrospinal Epidermoids (Cholesteatomata), The Symptomatology of Tumours of the Temporal Lobe, Some Considerations on Head Injuries, Histopathological Changes following Malarial Treatment of General Paralysis, Increased Intracranial Pressure, The Electromyogram in Myasthenia Gravis, Proceedings of the Section of Neurology, November 10, 1927; January 12, 1928; March 8, 1928, Notices of Recent Publications, Index to Vol. LI." [from the book]
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