The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics)

A quick but intelligent read, this book is creepy, engrossing, and leaves you thinking about it for a long time.

I'm of the opinion that The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story, but that the governess is also neurotic.

So Disappointing.

¡Coño, que bueno! I'm so proud that I could read a pre-20th century novel (quite short) Shame on me, but I think I had only done so for Flaubert. Heheh, anyway, it's excellent. So freaking frightening and so ambiguous! I’m really grateful for the delayed Spanish trains, for I could not take my eyes off the pages and (well, everyone knows I hate work, not mine but all, the very...more

¡Coño, que bueno! I'm so proud that I could read a pre-20th century novel (quite short) Shame on me, but I think I had only done so for Flaubert. Heheh, anyway, it's excellent. So freaking frightening and so ambiguous! I’m really grateful for the delayed Spanish trains, for I could not take my eyes off the pages and (well, everyone knows I hate work, not mine but all, the very concept of it) never wanted to arrive at my destination any of those exciting mornings in the company of James’ “others”. Some parts were deeply attractive, like reading a magnificent essay on people’s feelings, fears, thoughts and choices, made out of intuitions and uncertainties. It’s poetry in the form of a horror’ story. P/d: Maite, tienes que leerlo. Tú, lectora voraz, a lo mejor me llamas “cagona” o “mamita” para toda la vida, pero me arriesgo sufrir tales infamias.   hide

Abstruse language...but the hidding power to trigger panic is penetrating!

A cleverly constructed novella with some difficult language, but a deft handling of such an unreliable narrator that could've been destroyed in another writer's hands. Plus, it has a killer ending, and Miles and Flora are genuinely creepy, a hard thing to pull off.

You know - another one about how people possess others in order to live. Pure evil. But who?

Ugh. No. UGH!!!!!!Hated it. The ending was heinous. I audibly decried, "WHAT????!!!! That's how it ends????!!!" It was painful.

Trippy stuff. So brilliant.